These past few weeks have been stuffed to the gills, between the semester ending and work on some technical publications. Actually, now that I think about it, I should write up a post about publishing technical journal articles now that I have been on both the reviewer and author sides of it. Ah, the ideas...Anyone …
Continue reading Writing Challenge Prompt #14 – Mind Your Head
Finished this one just in time for Palm Sunday! This piece will be donated to St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church. A piece of this scale takes me about 15 hours on average from initial wood prep to final burning. Still have yet to varnish and seal it yet, but that takes around 15 minutes plus …
These past two weeks we have had a somewhat untraditional prompt, the song "Feed the Machine" by Poor Man's Poison. Yet this go around, I had the idea nearly simultaneously with me posting our last prompt, so I've been itching to share it for more than two weeks. That being said, the story ended up …
Continue reading Writing Challenge Prompt #13 – Feed the Machine
This week we have thrown ourselves onto the other side of a screen, observing the world and completing the processes fed to us via code, by writing a story from a machine's point of view. We're almost the halfway point for our short story challenge with 24 stories! To keep them all together, we now …
Continue reading Writing Challenge Prompt #12 – A Machine’s Perspective
This week's prompt was to write a story about the birth of a great art piece. Ironically, both of our stories ended up in a cave, but mine with a sci-fi bent and T's falling more in fantasy. We now have two weeks to write a story from a machine's point of view! For your …
Continue reading Writing Challenge Prompt #11 – The Birth of a Great Art Piece
The Dragon's Den 