Absent snap
Imagine waking in a dream—a lucid dream, but dream nonetheless—to rumor of someone, an other, with whom one need only suppress a little of one’s [read more...]
Robert Stikmanz
Regarding last year
2018 was such a year for missteps that recalling accomplishments takes effort. There were strides forward. Creative output has been good. Everything on the [read more...]
Scattered meditation
There are times when crazy sits close to the surface. Scratches on the page shift in a blink from beautifully formed to ridiculous. All the lessons of the past [read more...]
OMO
Consequences of decisions play out forever. The period 1999 to 2005 was one in which I was quite active artistically, often in a publicly striking way, but few [read more...]
In the Rearview Mirror: Texas Book Festival
At this writing, the planet has moved two and a half days beyond the 2018 Texas Book Festival. This places it approximately 53 million miles from the points it [read more...]
Spilling the beans on Dvarsh
This may not make sense to anyone else. I wish people would stop congratulating me for creating Dvarsh. It’s not that friendly thoughts are not [read more...]
What now?
The previous two weekends found me among the vendors at public events, with a full suite of ups and downs across the experience. September 8 & 9, I shared [read more...]
Paperback launched, ebook delayed & return to the workbook
Two nights ago I was marching through the process of preparing an ebook of Prelude to a Change of Mind, the Author’s Edition when I hit a wall. There is no [read more...]
Prelude to a revision
In the wake of ConDFW in February, I came home determined to remain optimistic. Interest in Dvarsh, An Introduction had been low, even after taking account of [read more...]
I have been confused
Amid strain and worry from personal upheaval, I fixed on a notion that, in order to continue developing Habdvarsha material, the productization and sale of [read more...]
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