http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/jakeofalltrades Just another Midatlantichorror.org weblog Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:50:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Day That Shouldn't Have Come I heard the new Metallica song on the radio this Friday. The DJ then asked for us to call in with our thoughts, all the while saying how they were "trying to get back to the old Metallica" and various other phrases that lead ... http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/jakeofalltrades/2008/08/25/the-new-metallica-song/ "What do you want to do when you grow up?" The question was asked to all of us at one point. Where is your direction in life? Where are you going? What is it you want to spend the rest of your life doing? The rest of my life. That is a bit ... http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/jakeofalltrades/2008/08/01/16/ June found me in the desert. It found me in the car. June drove, occasionally, but only when I didn't want to go that way in the first place. June found the floor of my house after ripping up the carpet to install laminate. It did not, however, stick around to ... http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/jakeofalltrades/2008/07/08/june-a-retrospective/ Phillis Levin is my Muse. Many poets have issued that title on a woman. "She is my muse." This woman they talk of is beautiful, elegant, they are no doubt in love with her, and equate inspiration to write poetry, happy or sad, about her, to 'Muse'. Phillis Levin is my Muse, ... http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/jakeofalltrades/2008/05/11/may-day-a-recommendation/ My days have been full since last weekend, tests, work, all this real life. Last weekend I took off from all of that and went to a convention. It was a new hotel for March, and they were not ready for us. They say by August they will have enough ... http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/jakeofalltrades/2008/04/03/horrorfind-march-2008/ If you use a Windows computer you need to protect it from the internet. The following is by no means intended to be an end-all be all list. Nor is it one that will last forever. See the date of this post? If it has been longer than a year, ... http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/jakeofalltrades/2008/03/20/protecting-your-computer/ I've been busy lately. Really busy. Too many things that need to be done, too many things that I want to do. Just too many things and still only one of me. So what happens when I get busy? The writing is first to go. Unfortunatly, while I consider myself ... http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/jakeofalltrades/2008/03/13/mark-time-as-busy/ I'll probably write a few posts on this sort of stuff. There are so many tools out there availible for a writer (or any artist for that matter) it is hard to know what to pick. Most of my posts will be about free software. Why? Well, as a starting ... http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/jakeofalltrades/2008/02/27/software-for-writers-part-one/ Characters are what make a story. No characters, no story. For the most part, I am sure you could find some sort of experimental French novelist who proves me wrong, but lets go with the mostly characters involved sorta stories. When we sit and write a story, we write it ... http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/jakeofalltrades/2008/02/20/on-charater-death/ At some point in your past one of your teachers dragged a large pedestal out into the middle of the classroom. She then stood on it, complete with royal music and halo-esque light and said "We shall now read from this sacred book of poetry." From then on, you have ... http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/jakeofalltrades/2008/02/11/poetry-on-a-pedestal/