Hello readers. This week I have been working on revisions to Renegade (still). I’ve outlined two out of the three new scenes I decided to add after feedback from my pre-readers. But I haven’t managed to start drafting the new scenes yet. I keep finding other things to occupy my time. Today it was a [...]
In my previous posts in this series, I described hydropower and wind power. Both of these renewable technologies could be classified as electromechanical systems. They convert the mechanical energy of falling water or moving air into electrical energy through the principle of electromagnetic induction. Today, I’d like to introduce a technology of an entirely different [...]
This week I participated in the WOOF contest with one of the scenes from The Renegade’s Door. I made it into the list of top picks. Yay! Here are the other winners from this week’s contest WOOF Contest – Top Picks: Poetry Web-Betty – “Diffident is spring” – A poem about the beauty of spring, [...]
This week I’ve been working on a few revisions to my NaNoWriMo manuscript, The Renegade’s Door. I had a few friends read through my pre-read copy and give me some feedback, which was great. I’m adding three new scenes to the story to help develop some of the character relationships in the second half of [...]
283 SC, five days earlier, Starseekers Gathering, in the Great Desert The late afternoon sun was baking the desert air, quickly evaporating the sweat that stuck Mikel’s coarse tunic to his broad back as he worked. Hemp rope handles creaked against heavy wooden crates as he and another teamster loaded the new cargo into the [...]
During the past few weeks the traffic on my blog has doubled. Evidently word is getting out. So if you’re a new reader, welcome to Richard-Rowland-Perkins.com . Here’s what I’ve been up to in the last week: Renegade’s Door revisions – My 2008 NaNoWriMo novel is currently out with my hand chosen pre-readers for feedback. [...]
In my first post in this series, I talked about hydropower, specifically hydroelectricity. I mentioned that hydropower was one of the oldest forms of renewable energy, but wind power is arguably older. People have been using wind power to propel ships (yes this counts as wind power) for over 5000 years. There are historical references [...]
Since my last post, I’ve made some promising progress… and suffered a few setbacks. Are you an optimist or a pessimist? (If you answered that question by claiming to be a realist… you and I have something in common ) I’ll start out with the bad news. I got the final verdict on my pending [...]
283 SC, The northern migration three days east of Stoneburners Gathering, in the Great Desert Arrows continued to whistle past overhead intermittently, but Mikel was out the line of fire as long as he stayed beneath the wagon. Of course, keeping him under the wagon was the archers’ objective. It would make the ground force’s [...]
The first few days of the new year have been busy ones for me. I’ve lined up three volunteer readers for my first manuscript revisions: a big thanks to April, Dan, and Margot for that. Yesterday afternoon I had transcribed about 80% of my red-line revisions onto my computer. That means I should be able [...]
