Focus Fox says: The past is your lesson. The present is your gift. The future is your motivation. The past participle is your current action. Unknown and writerly mashup
Category: writing
Focus Fox: Life
Focus Fox says: Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. Or a a writer go through the process of trying to get traditionally published. Mashup of Anais Nin and a writer’s plight
Seed idea – VR factions
I have the seed of a story idea from a post in my linked-in account. Virtuix Omni has a omnidirectional treadmill simulator for virtual reality games and other applications. They posted a video of a guy playing a game by using his whole body. Right now the stereotype for gamers, at least in my head,…
When I was a kid…
My kids couldn’t understand why I didn’t watch YouTube when I was a kid. I told them it didn’t exist then. The fact that something they used every day may not have existed when I was a kid fascinated them. We started listing things to see if they were around when I was their age….
NaNo and me
According to the Nano site I have been doing NaNo since 2006. I’ve had some wins and some loses and skipped years. I tried to write the year I was pregnant and due in November. Needless to say once my water broke, I was not able to complete that year. I know that there are…
Happiness is a direction
Happiness is a direction, not a place. Sydney J. Harris I felt like a distraction… so here is geek and philosophy mash-up. If we used the physic definition for direction, when you connect two points in space, direction is from point A (tail) to point B (head). So happiness is going from point A to…
How to discover your writing genius
I had a friend email me this and really liked it. How to Discover Your Writing Genius and Do Your Best Work, courtesy of Henneke at Enchanting Marketing
MILWORDY
I am up early because my brain is all over the place, but MILWORDY is at the top. MILWORDY is writing a million words in a year. So starting Sept 1st, 2020 and extending to Aug 31, 2021, you would write million words. Am I the only one who got the Austin Power’s Dr Evil’s…
Character Inspiration
In COVID times, the writer tool of people watching was off the table for character ideas. I’m in middle of something right now, but the next book is starting to sprout in the back of my head. What to do? I found a character generator on a FB group and tried it out. This was…
Relic 1: Blurb
Title: Company Assassin Book 1 in the Relic Trilogy It’s Duff Roman’s eighteenth birthday, but no one is lighting candles. Turning eighteen in the orphanage on Kalecca means starvation for those who aren’t hired into a Family. Outside the Family compounds lies the jungle. And in the jungle lies death. And Relics—the only real currency on Planet…