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Open to freelance work punching up stories or homepages, script-doctoring, beta reads, or other opinion vendings.
Stories have been with us since the first hunter told another about the one who got away. Stories are what make us human. Stories lead to understanding. Stories are cooked. Fiction, religion, biographies, gossip, gaming, and history it all goes into the pot and out comes as fiction. To those ends I’ve been around, professionally speaking. Marine, taxi driver, teacher, scientist, and coder. This breath of experience has given me a little knowledge about a lot of things, good and bad.
A good story reaches beyond the scope of its words.
Recent Posts
Professional Status Renewed!
From Publishers Marketplace: Tone Milazzo’s THE FAITH MACHINE, to Lisa Diane Kastner at Running Wild Press, in a nice deal, in an exclusive submission, for publication in fall of 2020.
Dr Ken Park, a Korean-American spy with a PhD in psychology finds himself in over his head when his team of agents with psychic powers is sent to Africa to recover the Faith Machine, a Soviet psychotronic device that turns prayers into suffering.
I’ve been working with Running Wild Press since they included my story, The Ginger Jar, in the Running Wild Anthology of Stories, Volume 2. mostly, by hosting and producing their podcast.
While I’m working with the editor, I’m building an audience for The Faith Machine and the ESPionage RPG for Fate Core. I filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the CIA for their files on Project Stargate and received a DVD with over 12,000 TIF files.
Some of these documents are hundreds of pages long.
That’ll keep me busy.
I intend to start scouring through these documents for interesting bits that I can serialize in blog posts, a podcast, or on YouTube. Maybe all three.
ConDor Con Schedule, Feb 22-24
When I’m not attending our table in the dealer’s room with Melissa Milazzo and J Dianne Dotson, I’ll probably be off somewhere eating snacks.
On the rare moment that I’m not filling my face with cookies, I’ll be on the following panels with the following people:
Friday the 22nd
2:00pm: How Many Characters is Too Many?: Do we need to know what every son of Westros is doing? Are we just confusing readers? Garden II (J.L. Doty, Tone Milazzo, H. Paul Honsinger, Janet Tait)
8:00pm: Role Play in RPGs: What ways can players make the characters come alive in Table Top RPGs. From accents, pantomime, to detailed character histories. Garden II (Tone Milazzo, Jordan Munn, Marc Biagi)
Saturday the 23nd
2:00pm: I Feel Like Talking: Podcasts are a way to express yourself, but how do you get started, how do you distribute and how do you listen? Is this a possible new way to spread your writing to the world? And is there a financial model that can get the writer paid? Garden I (Daniel Cortopassi, Matt Pallamary, Tone Milazzo, Sherri Rabinowitz, Cynthia Ward)
4:00pm: Drawing from Non-European Folklore and Myth: Fantasy draws mainly from the traditions of Northern Europe and the British Isles. What other cultures might we take inspiration from? Garden I (Jean Graham, Henry Herz, Tone Milazzo, Henry Lien, Cynthia Ward, Deborah Flores)
Stop by the table and say, “Hi!” I hope to see you there!
NaNoFailMo
I tried and failed at NaNoWriMo last month. That’s fine, most experiments fail. I went in hoping for a kick start on the third novel, Alejandro’s Ocean a post time travel story about feeling unappreciated. 3100 words in and the problems were pretty clear:
- The backstory was more interesting than the story itself.
- The supporting cast was a collection of stick figures.
- What little I had, was written toward a theme.
The consequences of rejecting the outlining process and of putting theme before character and plot. Lesson learned. It’s outlines from here on out, and actions will make the message. This book isn’t for me to write. On to the next one.