Back to writing new music

Back to writing new music

Posted inMusic, Works by Eric
I don't think I've mentioned it here, what with being busy as hell on writing projects and all, but in early January my desktop PC keeled over in a flaming ball of computer death, shards of shrapnel flying around the living room like a Tom Hanks/Stephen Spielberg production. This was unfortunate for many reasons, one of the biggest (for me) being that I was right in the middle of a major music project. My first X-Sweet record in three years, specifically, and hopefully the best I've done so far. I've been writing a lot of music lately. Not the sprawling…

Putting together a short story collection

Posted inRandom Musings, Writing
Well, sort of putting together a short story collection. It's just going to be for me and a few select people, you see. But I'll still be excited to have this stuff in a nice printed package, even if only to put the stories behind me and get cracking on new work. See, it's like this. I've dabbled a small bit in short stories over the last 10 years. Not as much as I'd like -- there will be about 15 stories included in this collection, give or take -- but enough to have amassed a good little stack of…
Pitched Vol 1

Comic anthology Vol. 2 is underway

Posted inComics & Graphic Novels, Works by Eric, Writing
So you might remember that I wrote a comic anthology, which I self-published last year and which you can buy here (hint, hint). Well, I'm pleased to say that work is progressing on a second anthology of comic stories, some with new artists and some with folks you saw in the first volume. The stories will be all-new (save for one that will include some familiar faces), and will once again span multiple genres. We'll have Buck Rogers-influenced space opera, Gothic horror in the spirit of classic EC Comics, a Lovecraftian morality play, and a crime story, among others. I…

Second Draft: Can’t wait to get started!

Posted inWorks by Eric, Writing
For six weeks I've been sitting on the finished first draft of a dystopian science fiction novel. I had a goal of finishing it by last New Year's Eve, met the goal, and then set it aside. The idea was to take a break so that when I returned to it for rewrites, I'd be doing so with fresh eyes and renewed energy for the project. And right now, I'm chomping at the bit for a return. I'm not sure why, exactly. I have a lot of work to do on the second draft. A LOT of work. I'm talking…

My blog sucks

Posted inRandom Musings, Uncategorized
My blog sucks. I'm well aware of this fact. It's not for lack of trying, it's ... well, okay, maybe it's partially true that lack of trying comes into play. After all, it's not that I'm incapable of dazzling you with insightful commentary about all manner of things, from the Tantric underpinnings of the television show Lost to the undisputed fact that pineapple is a delicious pizza topping, it's that I'm unwilling of dazzling you with insightful commentary about all manner of things, from the Tantric underpinnings of the television show Lost to the undisputed fact that pineapple is a…