April 2009
19 posts
Scene Sketch →
Spent a couple hours painting tonight, a quick one for a scene I’m currently writing, my two characters on the top step of some giant stone steps leading into a throne room.  Yes, one is sporting…
Apr 29th
Fifth novel writing method differences →
I’ve posted several times on how a novel comes together for me, and the last four have followed the same path.  Basically I start from the beginning, write to about the halfway point, then I’ll…
Apr 27th
Zombie Hunters [Flickr] →
chrishoward.author posted a photo:
Apr 25th
Sea Goddess [Flickr] →
chrishoward.author posted a photo:
Apr 25th
Rainbow over Exeter →
Alice and I were in Exeter yesterday evening doing a little shopping, and this is what the rainstorm left. .
Apr 25th
Driving Rain [Flickr] →
chrishoward.author posted a photo:
Apr 25th
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Apr 24th
Dryad Waking [Flickr] →
chrishoward.author posted a photo: Painted this scene from my current book, basically a dryad waking up, the tree goes into bloom, petals everywhere. Not sure if I got there, but I was…
Apr 22nd
Apr 21st
IF: impossibility →
Painted this scene from my current book, basically a dryad waking up, the tree goes into bloom, petals everywhere. Digital, wacom, CS, about an hour.
Apr 21st
Update...again. How I write a novel →
Writing, writing, writing, going to complete my sixth novel in May, and looking back at how I write a novel, the sixth has gone exactly as the prior five have in terms of plotting, world building,…
Apr 16th
Character Studies →
Here’s my latest character study, along with two priors.  I’m not very far away from completing the first book in a series, and books 2 and 3 are well into planning, so I don’t want to give much…
Apr 16th
19th Wedding Anniversary →
Alice Arzaga in a long white gown.  14th of April, 1990, in Morgan Hill, California.  Machado School, a nineteenth-century two-room school house with a bell—yes, we were married in an old…
Apr 16th
Must... Keep... Typing... →
I’m in heads-down storytelling mode right now, trying to get out at least 1000 words a day in my attempt to complete this book—the first in a series of three (can’t say more right now) sometime in…
Apr 16th
The theme is Helios →
A few shots off my iPhone: .
Apr 7th
Art sale to Shimmer in the latest issue (#10) →
Shimmer is a beautiful publication.  Back in December, I did a few pen and ink pieces for Shweta Narayan’s fabulous story, “One for Sorrow,” and Mary Robinette Kowal took one for issue…
Apr 3rd
Obama action figure →
Okay, it doesn’t get any better than this: http://gamu-toys.info/sonota/sw/obama/obama.html .
Apr 3rd