by A. D. Pauli | Aug 8, 2016 | General
My life is under construction. Everyone’s life is constantly under construction, since life is change. We’re constantly building upon ourselves and our pasts to (hopefully) achieve something better or different or find a way to deal with things we’ve...
by A. D. Pauli | Jun 9, 2016 | General
I didn’t do an update for May, but I was writing. I wrote every morning before work. I wrote on the weekends. I would have liked to have written at night, but I was working long hours. Still am. Day job has erupted in scalding, frothy craziness and washed away...
by A. D. Pauli | Apr 18, 2016 | Between Darkness and Light, Writing
Ah, April, I love you. I love that particular shade of green that newly-unfurled leaves posses. I love that you give me warm days, but that you still provide rain so that everything stays green. You are spring fully realized, when winter is a fond memory and summer is...
by A. D. Pauli | Mar 21, 2016 | Between Darkness and Light, Reflections
I’ve always loved languages. I enjoyed my linguistics courses in college. I always dreamed of learning more languages, but I’ve never made it a priority. I suppose that makes it one of my dreamier dreams. As such, I’ve always had a great respect for...
by A. D. Pauli | Feb 22, 2016 | Between Darkness and Light, Reflections
I saw this article today: Hey, Sci-Fi And Comics Fans: It’s Time To Embrace The Dark Side And it made me think about my own experiences and stories. As I talked about in a previous post, I’m all for diverse fiction (in both the creators and the...
by A. D. Pauli | Jan 21, 2016 | Publishing, Writing
I sent out a mess of queries late fall last year, and so by now I’ve racked up a few rejections. I actually don’t mind rejections. So far they’ve been far kinder than the scathing, flaming reviews I used to receive on my fanfics. When I get a...
by A. D. Pauli | Jan 8, 2016 | Reflections
I know this video has been floating around out there for a while, but I finally watched it. I wept. In fact, I was crying so hard by the end that I had to go sit in the bathroom with the door shut so that my small children wouldn’t be alarmed. At the time, I...
by A. D. Pauli | Dec 8, 2015 | Between Darkness and Light, Writing
My spouse has been reading the third draft of book two of my planned Between Darkness and Light series. Apparently the changes that I made from draft two were good, but not enough. The beginning of the book is good, but only around chapter 11 did my spouse really get...
by A. D. Pauli | Dec 1, 2015 | Writing
After the tea dunking of my laptop last month, writing had been going very slowly for me. Part of that was due to writing longhand, so I bought a cheapo wireless keyboard. It took me a few days to get used to it, but soon I was ready to rock and roll. Except I...
by A. D. Pauli | Nov 11, 2015 | General
I’ve been reading a lot lately about #WeNeedDiverseBooks and diversity in publishing in general. It seemed to be a factor in the whole Sad Puppies thing at the Hugos, and now a certain segment is freaking out about the Star Wars movie (see Chuck Wendig’s...
