Posts Tagged ‘Writing’

It’s not uncommon for writers to ask one another for blurbs, the promotional quotes that often appear on covers or in a book’s front matter. I’ve got a small collection of them myself, and I’ve provided a handful over the past several years. However, it’s been a while since anyone’s asked me for one.
Until Monday, [...]

Between flu, pneumonia, and now some kind of killer, sinus-assaulting virus, this winter has just plain sucked for me. It all started with a fever on Saturday, progressed to sinus headaches, and now is a combination of both, complete with the occasional fat blob of ugly, brown-green snot streaked with red. This has given me [...]

Road Warrior
Originally uploaded by MikeOliveri.

Circumstances aside, I often welcome the chance to write on the road.
At home, I’m surrounded by distractions. If I feel like procrastinating, there are home projects to be done: seal off the attic fan, bag & board the last several months’ worth of comics, or clean out the utility room. If [...]

I finally got around to posting the latest episode of Down Vendetta Road to Muy Mal from the road this morning. You can find episode 10, “Conversation Starter”, right here.
It’s a good thing my wife let me write in the car, or this might have been delayed until next week. I’m looking forward to things [...]

If someone were to ask me how this year went, my first reaction would be to call it a write-off. Then I got to thinking about it, and it actually hasn’t been so bad after all. Let’s look back, shall we?
I started the year by selling the German rights to Deadliest of the Species to [...]

The Muy Mal relaunch is imminent! Because I’ve left Down Vendetta Road hanging for so long, I thought it might be a good idea to post a complete collection of the first nine episodes (thanks to Tod for the suggestion). If you’d like to read it, just follow this link:
Down Vendetta Road: The Story So [...]

Muy Mal, the place for free fiction about very bad things, will return January 1, 2008 for a limited engagement. Originally conceived by authors Weston Ochse, Mike Oliveri and John Urbancik as a shared-world, online fiction universe, Muy Mal exploded through RSS readers and podcast clients on January 1, 2005, providing fans with more [...]

I’ve been blogging just about everything but my writing the last few weeks, so it’s high time I at least mentioned it before people start to forget that’s what I really want to do in the first place. Here’s a status report on several projects:
I’ve been thinking The Malice Engine may see life as a [...]

I found two things that may be of interest to writers.
First up is Writer’s Cafe, which I found via Linux.com. It’s a multi-platform program that lets you organize just about everything having to do with your writing, ranging from outlining to collecting notes and reference material. I’m not big on this kind of thing [...]

Two people have asked me if I’m participating in NaNoWriMo this year. My answer went something like this:
AAAHH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Okay, deep breath. Seriously.
AAAHH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Um, no.