Mothership connection
The way has opened for interrupted plans. Not only did barriers fall, but there is a deadline by which change must happen. Suddenly, there is no time to waste. [read more...]
Musings
Pivot
It’s good to be drawing again. The going is slow because, as with everything else, there are limits now where once it seemed there were none. Eyes, back, [read more...]
An appeal: please buy a postcard
Stikmantica really needs funding help right now, both specifically to see the book in progress, Dzadefve oa Charls’m (The Song of Worlds), into print, [read more...]
Please do not call me #2
As threatened, the second vent of three. Please do not call me a genius. I get called this a lot. There is no basis for it, and yet it happens. It happened [read more...]
Please do not call me #1
From the desk of Robert Stikmanz, here is the first of three screeds on a match. The next two are in development. Look for a return to positive thoughts after [read more...]
Resistible offer
A few days ago an individual enamored of the Dvarsh script approached me with what he considered a reasonable proposal. He offered $50 for me to create a [read more...]
Déjà nu all over again
Second draft of Dzadefve oa Charls’m (The Song of Worlds) is all marked up to make a third. For a big step, there is little to show besides pencil on [read more...]
Uncle Toby and jeans no more
Wednesday was a good day on the project. Currently, I’m marking up the second draft to prep the third. As of Wednesday night, three of seven chapters [read more...]
Hypothermia
I keep starting blog posts but abandoning them. It seems impossible to finish reacting to one ogreous moment before getting pounced on by another, and unseemly [read more...]
Looking for a way forward
It’s possible that much of the frustration I feel about a lack of audience stems from the years when I made a living as a graphic artist and designer. [read more...]
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