Eternity's Irys

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News and updates for “Eternity’s Irys” as well as some personal opinion pieces.

  • Physical Edit: COMPLETE!

    Earlier today I finished reading the entire physical copy of my book and it went so much better than I expected. I really thought it still needed a lot of work, but besides some small things, minor formatting issues, and a retooling of the literal last chapter, I think it’s damn near finished. As you Read more

  • Behold! Book!

    After five years of drafting this thing and over twenty years of writing in general, I ended 2023 with a copy of my book. Written in Google Docs with the aforementioned Royal Kludge keyboard, formatted in Atticus, “edited” with ProWritingAid, and print-formatted by my brother Paul, my unofficial “publisher”. He had four of these pre-production Read more

  • Happy Birthday, Q’taxians!

    Happy 5th Anniversary to the completion of the first draft of “The Q’taxians”! How far we’ve come and what a crazy adventure it’s been! Rollercoaster of highs and lows, character growth, real life growth, tons of drafts and discarded novels, all to get us here: Eternity’s Irys. Not once did I want to give up, Read more

  • It Is Done.

    As of yesterday, the first entry to the “Eternity’s Irys” series, “Two Minutes to Midnight”, is finally complete. I am finally happy with the outcome of five years of writing. Currently, my brother and I are putting together some proof copies. He’s doing most of the technical work I can’t handle as well as redesigning Read more

  • I almost returned this thing

    Guess I’m glad I didn’t. This is the RK Royal Kludge RK61. Got it on Amazon for $50. I was using one of those cool type-writer keyboards for a while and for a while it worked okay, but typos and missing simple keys like “Enter” started getting out of hand. So I Googled “Best keyboards Read more

  • Writing Groups are Weird: Character Assassination

    “I wrote a character this way. Should I have written them this other way?” Short answer: No. Long answer: Characters tend to grow and evolve with the author and the draft. Your first iteration is highly unlikely to be identical to the final version. The key is to write write write and accept that the Read more