I'll make this short, and sweet. I'm no longer going to be updating this blog regularly. I will post editorial pieces and reviews (of movies, games, and books) as they get written, but for now all of my blogging energy is going to Tongues in Jars and Going Box by Box.
So, enjoy what's here, and check out my two other blogs as well!
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
The future of A Glass Darkly
I know that I originally planned to re-launch this blog and Tongues in Jars for December, but recently my time has been short. I'll spare you the regular spiel about working three jobs and planning to move out and etc., etc. The shortest possible version is that I just haven't really figured out exactly what I want to do with A Glass Darkly going forward.
Now, I'm still going to blog (as is plain in my resuming regular updates at Tongues in Jars).
However, the big difference between my blogging in the future and my blogging in the past is that I'm only going to dedicate 1/4 of my writing time and energy to blogging. The other 3/4 are going to my novels, short stories, and poetry. Nonetheless, I want to keep updating these blog regularly. The best way to do this, as far as I've been able to figure, is to simply write more fluid entries.
So, rather than sitting down, planning out, strenuously editing and drafting each blog entry, from now on my entries will be shorter. Ultimately, the purpose of these blogs is to publicly indulge my hobbies, and to give you all a way to get to know me and what to expect from my writing. My blog entries will still have the usual polish, though the fiction and poetry I post here will still be drafts and thus a little unpolished. Think of them as the sketches that artists might post on their sites.
The new year's also going to bring some changes to A Glass Darkly's design and, possibly, name. I'll still post creative writing on Mondays, editorials will return on Wednesdays, and reviews will go up on Fridays. These reviews will mostly be of books, but there'll still be some movie reviews sprinkled in for good measure. But, these entries won't necessarily be regular.
Along with these irregular entries, the plan right now is to post thought pieces based on what I'm playing and reading every day. I've got a crazy book/video game backlog, and so there's plenty of fodder for free-writing. The difference between these entries and Wednesday's editorials will be that the former will be free-flowing wanderings with words, while the latter will usually be more concentrated mini-essays that try to make a point.
So, now that all that's out there - what about the rest of December? Well, for now all I can say is that I don't expect to get much up and running here. I might do one final movie review, either of a bad Christmas movie or of the famous flop Ishtar, but doing either seems unlikely. Instead, I can say for sure that Tongues in Jars will keep getting updated on a weekly basis, and I'll be publishing an article over on examiner.com every week as well.
So, watch this space, gentle reader, and something will appear!
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Now, I'm still going to blog (as is plain in my resuming regular updates at Tongues in Jars).
However, the big difference between my blogging in the future and my blogging in the past is that I'm only going to dedicate 1/4 of my writing time and energy to blogging. The other 3/4 are going to my novels, short stories, and poetry. Nonetheless, I want to keep updating these blog regularly. The best way to do this, as far as I've been able to figure, is to simply write more fluid entries.
So, rather than sitting down, planning out, strenuously editing and drafting each blog entry, from now on my entries will be shorter. Ultimately, the purpose of these blogs is to publicly indulge my hobbies, and to give you all a way to get to know me and what to expect from my writing. My blog entries will still have the usual polish, though the fiction and poetry I post here will still be drafts and thus a little unpolished. Think of them as the sketches that artists might post on their sites.
The new year's also going to bring some changes to A Glass Darkly's design and, possibly, name. I'll still post creative writing on Mondays, editorials will return on Wednesdays, and reviews will go up on Fridays. These reviews will mostly be of books, but there'll still be some movie reviews sprinkled in for good measure. But, these entries won't necessarily be regular.
Along with these irregular entries, the plan right now is to post thought pieces based on what I'm playing and reading every day. I've got a crazy book/video game backlog, and so there's plenty of fodder for free-writing. The difference between these entries and Wednesday's editorials will be that the former will be free-flowing wanderings with words, while the latter will usually be more concentrated mini-essays that try to make a point.
So, now that all that's out there - what about the rest of December? Well, for now all I can say is that I don't expect to get much up and running here. I might do one final movie review, either of a bad Christmas movie or of the famous flop Ishtar, but doing either seems unlikely. Instead, I can say for sure that Tongues in Jars will keep getting updated on a weekly basis, and I'll be publishing an article over on examiner.com every week as well.
So, watch this space, gentle reader, and something will appear!
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
Blog Happenings for the End of 2012
Because I'm using National Novel Writing Month to launch myself back into writing my fantasy series, my blogging time has been short lately. So, instead of pushing through and getting out some sub-par entries, I've decided to put my blogs on hold for the rest of November.
However, I will be posting the entry for Stanza 8 of "Dum Diane vitrea" this coming Tuesday, while the final wrap-up entry for that poem will be posted on 4 December.
So, enjoy what's posted here and over at Tongues in Jars for the rest of November, and watch for new content come December!
Oh, and if you're interested, watch my Examiner.com video game blog for a new article every Saturday, plus an extra one this Monday!
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However, I will be posting the entry for Stanza 8 of "Dum Diane vitrea" this coming Tuesday, while the final wrap-up entry for that poem will be posted on 4 December.
So, enjoy what's posted here and over at Tongues in Jars for the rest of November, and watch for new content come December!
Oh, and if you're interested, watch my Examiner.com video game blog for a new article every Saturday, plus an extra one this Monday!
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Sunday, September 30, 2012
[Sunnan-dæg] The Last of it's Name
These look back/look ahead entries have proven to be less useful than anticipated. Because the lists that get posted here are seldom worked on over the course of the week, and part of each of the last three Sundays have been consumed by these entries to little avail, I'm going to be stopping their posting all together.
However, as one final list, here's what I'm planning on doing between now and the end of the calendar year:
As you might've guessed from such a list of creative writing-related tasks, I'm dropping this update from my blogging schedule so that I can have more time for my fiction and poetry writing.
However, as counter productive as it may seem, I'm still planning to start a video game playlog over over the coming weeks.
Until then keep checking out this blog and my dead language translation blog Tongues in Jars.
The former/The latter has the usual creative writing on Monday, movie review on Friday (this week: The Screaming Skull), and "annotated links" on Saturday. And over at Tongues in Jars, you'll be able to find the second stanza of "Dum Diane vitrea" on Tuesday, and the first of Wiglaf's reactions to Beowulf's death on Thursday.
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However, as one final list, here's what I'm planning on doing between now and the end of the calendar year:
- Outline and completed Dekar 4
- Outline and completed Dekar 5
- Edit and made publicly presentable a very loosely autobiographical novel about an English teacher in South Korea
- Edit and made publicly presentable a poetic novel about mythological creatures
- Edit and made publicly presentable an epic poem about a night in the life of a dishwasher
- Gather and organized all of my poetry
- Gather and organized all of my short stories
- Have 3 short stories accepted for publication
- Have 1 poem accepted for publication
As you might've guessed from such a list of creative writing-related tasks, I'm dropping this update from my blogging schedule so that I can have more time for my fiction and poetry writing.
However, as counter productive as it may seem, I'm still planning to start a video game playlog over over the coming weeks.
Until then keep checking out this blog and my dead language translation blog Tongues in Jars.
The former/The latter has the usual creative writing on Monday, movie review on Friday (this week: The Screaming Skull), and "annotated links" on Saturday. And over at Tongues in Jars, you'll be able to find the second stanza of "Dum Diane vitrea" on Tuesday, and the first of Wiglaf's reactions to Beowulf's death on Thursday.
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Sunday, September 23, 2012
[Sunnan-dæg] After a Partial Peter Gabriel Eclipse
Over the past week, here's what I've done for the sake of my fiction and poetry writing:
By this week's end I'll have:
If you're wondering why this second list is fairly similar to the to-do list from last week's entry, my only excuse is that going to see Peter Gabriel in Toronto was a major distraction. In fact, here are the two highlights of the show (thanks to babyVantage and apc611 respectively):
This week's distraction will be a jaunt out to see "Whose Live Is It Anyway" at the Center in The Square. All the same, I'll have ample time for writing and planning, so I think that I'll be able to make short work of this week's to-do list.
Along with that, I'll be posting some creative writing tomorrow, seeking the salient in Samuel L. Jackson's The Samaritan on Friday, and posting "Annotated Links" on Saturday.
Over at Tongues in Jars watch for the first verse (for real this week) of "Dum Diane vitrea" on Tuesday and Beowulf's final words on Thursday.
And, watch for regular updates over at my examiner.com page.
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- Outlined four of the five acts of the audio drama that I'm currently working on;
- Worked out all of the climactic events for my perspective characters in Dekar 4 - except for the main female character;
- Begun to research some of the magazines I'm thinking of sending my short story to;
- Noted more story ideas.
By this week's end I'll have:
- Completed my research into magazines and made a short list of five to send my stories to;
- Sent my stories to the first magazine from this list;
- Written up and organized a chapter-by-chapter outline of Dekar 4;
- Written out the next act (4 scenes) of the audio drama I'm working on.
If you're wondering why this second list is fairly similar to the to-do list from last week's entry, my only excuse is that going to see Peter Gabriel in Toronto was a major distraction. In fact, here are the two highlights of the show (thanks to babyVantage and apc611 respectively):
This week's distraction will be a jaunt out to see "Whose Live Is It Anyway" at the Center in The Square. All the same, I'll have ample time for writing and planning, so I think that I'll be able to make short work of this week's to-do list.
Along with that, I'll be posting some creative writing tomorrow, seeking the salient in Samuel L. Jackson's The Samaritan on Friday, and posting "Annotated Links" on Saturday.
Over at Tongues in Jars watch for the first verse (for real this week) of "Dum Diane vitrea" on Tuesday and Beowulf's final words on Thursday.
And, watch for regular updates over at my examiner.com page.
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Sunday, September 16, 2012
[Sunnan-dæg] The First of many Lights
Welcome to the first Sunday Edition of A Glass Darkly.
In keeping with the themes of my other entries in this blog, since Sunday is named for the Sun, these entries will shine a light on what I did related to my writing over the previous week, while also using that light to peer ahead into the next. Yes, there will be lists, but there'll also be a little bit of description. Let's get to it.
As you might remember from the last "Update Entry" I made, I wrote that I was going to provide an update every three days rather than every two. That was back on Monday, and so things have sort of slackened on that end of things.
However, I'm now yanking that slack and drawing in the last parts of that blog update for this Sunday entry. So, in the future, those sorts of blog updates will come out every Sunday. In the meantime, these entries will be all about my writing efforts.
Over the past week, here's what I've done for the sake of my fiction and poetry writing:
As a refresher, here are the things still outstanding from the blog update of August '12:
It's my hope that I'll have all of these wrapped up come next Sunday.
Until then, don't miss tomorrow's creative writing entry and Friday's look at Luke Wilson and Samuel L. Jackson's Meeting Evil here at A Glass Darkly. Plus, on Saturday, you'll be able to find the newest "Annotated Links" here as well.
And keep an eye out for Tuesday's translation of a poem possibly written by Peter Abelard (of the famed pair of star-crossed medieval lovers Héloïse and Abelard), "Dum Diane vitrea," followed by Thursday's look at Beowulf's burial instructions at Tongues in Jars.
Oh, you might also have remembered that I mentioned a video game blog that I'd be starting up soon. I still intend to start it sooner rather than later, so watch for a link in future entries.
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In keeping with the themes of my other entries in this blog, since Sunday is named for the Sun, these entries will shine a light on what I did related to my writing over the previous week, while also using that light to peer ahead into the next. Yes, there will be lists, but there'll also be a little bit of description. Let's get to it.
As you might remember from the last "Update Entry" I made, I wrote that I was going to provide an update every three days rather than every two. That was back on Monday, and so things have sort of slackened on that end of things.
However, I'm now yanking that slack and drawing in the last parts of that blog update for this Sunday entry. So, in the future, those sorts of blog updates will come out every Sunday. In the meantime, these entries will be all about my writing efforts.
Over the past week, here's what I've done for the sake of my fiction and poetry writing:
- Re-organized the schedule of A Glass Darkly to better accomodate my fiction and poetry writing;
- Come up with the climactic moment for my current fantasy novel (Working title: Dekar 4);
- Made notes for a number of short stories;
- Done some world building for that fantasy series I'm working on (the world's cosmology, history, and magic system, specifically);
- Compiled a list of Canadian science fiction magazines.
As a refresher, here are the things still outstanding from the blog update of August '12:
- Send out two short stories to magazines
- Outline entirety of the fantasy novel I'm writing
- Completed 10 of those chapters
- Completed the next act (4 scenes) of an audio drama I'm working on
It's my hope that I'll have all of these wrapped up come next Sunday.
Until then, don't miss tomorrow's creative writing entry and Friday's look at Luke Wilson and Samuel L. Jackson's Meeting Evil here at A Glass Darkly. Plus, on Saturday, you'll be able to find the newest "Annotated Links" here as well.
And keep an eye out for Tuesday's translation of a poem possibly written by Peter Abelard (of the famed pair of star-crossed medieval lovers Héloïse and Abelard), "Dum Diane vitrea," followed by Thursday's look at Beowulf's burial instructions at Tongues in Jars.
Oh, you might also have remembered that I mentioned a video game blog that I'd be starting up soon. I still intend to start it sooner rather than later, so watch for a link in future entries.
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