The Hourlings Podcast Project, E41, Happy Hour!

Short Film Friday: 2 Bullet Solution

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Quotes of the Week

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

—Orson Welles

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

—George RR Martin

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

—Mark Twain

Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse...

—Clement Clarke Moore

Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.

—Charlie Chaplin

We have Art in order not to die of the truth.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Fairy tales are more than true not because they tell us that dragons exist but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

—G. K. Chesterton

Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.

—Walt Disney

If history was taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

—Rudyard Kipling

Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed, and left for dead.

—Ann-Marie MacDonald 

BOOK SIGNING: August 21, 2021 at McKay Books in Manassas VA.

 

Today is the Final Day!

My cat has enjoyed the COVID days...

 

The Hourlings Podcast Project, E40, Foreshadowing

Special Giveaway, because why the Hell not!

 

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Short Film Friday: Liminal

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--The ruins at Chernobyl.

Quotes of the Week

If a writer falls in love with you, you'll never die.

—Unknown

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

—Françoise Sagan

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

—Stephen King (Say this over and over to yourself. -MCW)

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

—Ernest Hemingway (And he did... -MCW)

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

—Stephen King (A simple formula. Do it. - MCW)

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

—Patti Smith (Stop banning books, cowards. - MCW)

Don't use no double negatives.

Never use a preposition to end a sentence with.

The passive voice should never be employed.

You should not use a big word when a diminutive would suffice.

About those sentence fragments.

Avoid clichés like the plague.

—William Safire

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

—Sylvia Plath

Let the readers do some of the work themselves. 

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The Hourlings Podcast Project, E39, Favorite Stories in Fantasy

Short Film Friday! Outpost

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Quotes of the Week

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

—Ernest Hemingway

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

—Stephen King

You have to live with the notion of, “If I don’t write this, no one’s going to write it. If I die, this idea dies with me.”

—Lin-Manuel Miranda

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

—Patti Smith

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

—Sylvia Plath

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Cat Burglar!

 

The Hourlings Podcast Project - E38 - 2021 Goals 2021 Mid-Year Status

Short Film Friday: Alpha Squadron

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Quotes of the Week

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. 

—Kurt Vonnegut

Let the readers do some of the work themselves. 

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

A line of dialogue is not clear enough if you need to explain how it's said.

—Elmore Leonard

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

—Anton Chekhov

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

—John Steinbeck

Good artists borrows, a great artists steal. 

—Pablo Picasso

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

—Ernest Hemingway

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.

—John Steinbeck 

HARDCOVER SALE!

Shadows of the Sentinal, hardcover edition, is on super-sale today for $7 while supplies last!

However, did it come to this?

Cobb wanted a simple life. He wanted excellent steaks, great coffee, friends, and a quiet place to restore his favorite ship. Working for a recovery operation turned out to be the best place to find parts cheap.

She had other plans for him.

He wanted the staff of the deep space salvage ship, OXCART, to treat him just like another member of the crew. Not the man he really was. Light-years from Earth, he thought his secrets, his past, wouldn't matter. Especially not to her. When that past leads them to the SENTINEL, like it or not, the biggest single salvage of all time will change everything.

Some secrets are so big, they can start a war. Or stop one. Or remain too big to explain when the timing could not be worse.

And it was all the damn cat's fault.

Singing the songs of his people, at night...

 

The Hourlings Podcast Project, Episode 37, Naming Characters.

Short Film Friday: Megan

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