Monthly Archives: October 2024

A Memory of Old Songs

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One thing I like to do now and then is take a flash story, generate illustrations, and put it on YouTube with my own narration. Something separate from the folklore. This piece is called “A Memory of Old Songs.” I think I’ll put them in a separate playlist and just call it “Story Time.”

The Seventh Law of Power is nearly 81k in rough draft now. I think it’s going to end in a…no, on second thought I don’t think I’ll commit to that just yet. But I do see it coming back full circle to Book1, The Long Look. How we get there is the fun part.

Robots of the Gods

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Setting the stage for the almost final piece of the puzzle in The Seventh Law of Power. I only now realized that the section I just finished doesn’t go where I wrote it. Oh, well. That’s what re-writes are for. I’ll worry about moving it then. Especially considering how long it’s taking me to write it, TSLOP won’t be a long book. Likely somewhere between 80-85k. I’m about to cross the 80k boundary, if that tells you anything.

In the meantime, here’s another one of my YouTube videos on mythological subjects. Mainly Hephaestos’ habit of making fully functional automatons (read: robots) whenever somebody needed a favor. Amazing how long this concept has been around. Robots of the Gods