The end of Manuscript: Beta of The Warden of Everfeld: Memento is nigh, and my characters (most of them) just survived a battle scene that ended as abruptly as it began. Continue reading “4 Ways to Write an Exciting Action Scene”
Author: Steven D'Adamo
I'm a fantasy author and blogger. I like to write about the creative process, music, movies, books, and my weekly haiku series, "Haiku Sunday"
Haiku Sunday – Ripple
“Ripple”
Little candlelights
dance across the sea’s surface,
the sun’s light captured.
Steve D
Quick Rip: Foo Fighters are Back and Evolved… Again!
The latest single from Foo Fighters, “The Sky is a Neighborhood”,seems to take a lot of elements from their Sonic Highways Experiment. Continue reading “Quick Rip: Foo Fighters are Back and Evolved… Again!”
Numberbrag: 10,000 Visitors
Life has moved so quickly over the last month or so that I’ve hardly had time to even look at my blog stats. Don’t get me wrong, I still check them nearly every day (it’s compulsive), but I haven’t paid too much attention to some of the bigger numbers recently.
We’ve hit a few solid milestones over the last couple of weeks, and it’s high-time I high-five myself over them. (Jessie! Virtual high-five!) Continue reading “Numberbrag: 10,000 Visitors”
Haiku Sunday – Portrait
“Portrait”
Red sun rising, a
portrait, though fleeting, it is
captured in my mind.
Steve D
Call White Supremacist Violence What It Is: White Terrorism
This infamous tweet was lobbed by Dear Leader at President Obama for insisting on calling terrorist acts “terrorism”, rather than specifying that some terrorist acts are perpetrated by those claiming to be Muslims. Continue reading “Call White Supremacist Violence What It Is: White Terrorism”
Haiku Sunday – Rooftop
“Rooftop”
The city’s breaths warm
under a sun-dappled sky
before the rains come.
Steve D
Friday Actual Write-Day
Life has been busy since we bought our house. Most of my weekends and spare evenings have been spent sanding, painting, talking with repair pros, or demolishing moldy cabinets in the cellar.
Fortunately, real progress is being made on our house, and we’re on our way to moving in in the next month or so. I’ll post some photos soon. Continue reading “Friday Actual Write-Day”
Steve’s To Be Read List!
My reading has been slow this year, but I’ve made a concerted effort o branch out of my fantasy and/or history realms. After finishing Skylights a few weeks ago, I had to think about what I would read next.
Currently Reading…
The Long Patrol, by Brian Jacques
I’ve talked about the Redwall series a bit in this space. After spotlighting this very book as one of my all-time favorites last year, I decided I needed to go back and read it as an adult.
I probably read The Long Patrol three or four times before I was 16, but it has been a long time since my last venture into Jacques’s playful, but dangerous world. Forty-some pages in and I love it!
To Be Read… hopefully this year…
Lord of Chaos, by Robert Jordan
This is book six of the Wheel of Time series. It has been several months since I read book five, so I feel like I need to read this before I forget everything. Entering book six of a 14-book series is a bit daunting, since the middle part of any series tends to drag a bit.
All the same, this one is shipping to my house as we speak (along with book seven, for good measure).
Caught, by M.L.S. Weech
Shout-out to my blogging friend and fellow Marylander! I picked up Caught when I attended Weech’s launch event at a comic book shop in Glen Burnie.
This has been on my TBR shelf since then, and I swear I’m going to read it this year.
Caught happens to be a different flavor of book than I’m used to — speculative fiction — so I’m excited to dive into uncharted genre territory with an author I actually know (like, in real life). I trust that Weech will be an excellent guide.
Oriental Mythology, by Joseph Campbell
I need to mix up my reading list a bit with some more academically tinged writing. I started reading Volume II of Campbell’s four-volume series, The Masks of God some time ago.
I just never finished it. I read the first few chapters on the beach, and it was beautiful and poignant and eye-opening. I’m hoping to capture that feeling again when I go to OBX next month.
A Crown of Swords, by Robert Jordan
Let’s face it, I may just need to dive back into book seven of this mega-series to keep myself sated. I’d like to limit the number of books I read between each installment to less than five.
If I get through this novel relatively quickly, I’ll be halfway through the series, and it only would have taken me… three years!
Steve D
Haiku Sunday – Pine
“Pine”
Hours of labor
Exposing the grain beneath
Our beachy cottage
Steve D
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