Category: other stuff

Update

Okay, I finally wrote THE END for The Journey of St. Laurent. The final chapter will go up on Friday. I’ve got a pile of short stories and other stuff that need to be written now. And of course I need to go back and make all the sweeping changes I’ve been thinking about. And [...]

I can’t help myself. (random news)

New Theme. Yes, I have changed the theme once again. I just can’t stop myself. Anyway, I made it so that StoryHack.com and BryceABeattie.com match fairly closely now. If you see any weirdness with it, please let me know. In case you’re wondering, to build this theme I started started with lifehacker’s blank theme. Then [...]

Thank you, Kim Harrison

I’ve had a problem recently. I’m getting close to the end of The Journey of St. Laurent, but I keep getting stuck. I write, rewrite, revise, rewrite, stare at the computer screen, and generally can’t seem to make it happen. And it’s not like I’m writing literary fiction or anything, so what’s the deal. Action [...]

What is this?

Wait a minute, that looks a whole lot like the cover to my novel, but somehow different. Oh yeah, that’s because it’s the cover for the Portuguese language version. Rafa from Word Awareness has been hard at work translating Oasis and is now done. I just have to make sure my formatting is good and [...]

“D” is for Determined

So last night I sat down, determined to polish off the second half of chapter 61. I put on my headphones and started typing madly away. An hour or so later my wife shook me awake. I looked at the screen to see what I had written before passing out. It wasn’t much. What I [...]

Deprived

I’m confident that if I went to the doctor, he’d diagnose me with child-induced insomnia. Now that I have three kids, I don’t think there’s an hour in a day wherein all of them are asleep at the same time. This has made for some very interesting nights. Don’t get me wrong, though. I wouldn’t [...]

Movie trailers

I’m pretty exited that The Hobbit is finally on its way: Also, I didn’t really care about The Hunger Games until the trailer for the movie came out. Now I just have to read the books. And doesn’t Will Smith age?

Sopa and Pipa

Well, you’ve probably noticed the myriad sites that are either voluntarily down (like wikipedia) or have special notices posted (see the google logo today). I believe that the proposed legislations (SOPA and PIPA) go way too far. I’d encourage you to go learn about the legislations, and if you disagree with them, and contact your [...]

Zombie Apocalypse

I love it when my friends send me amusing zombie-related stuff. This showed up in my inbox recently.

Time to Wake Up

This morning I got a wake up call. Not the kind that gets you out of bed, mind you. This was the metaphoric kind. Although it was still on the phone. My long-time internet writing buddy J. Dane Tyler (aka DarcKnyt) was afraid that I had fallen off the face of the Earth, so he [...]