by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 11, 2015 | General
My technology is training me into a conditioned response. I downloaded this pedometer app for my IPhone, and now that I’m home in NM where it is beautiful and I’m not breathing exhaust when I go outside I have been taking a lot of long, brisk walks. Since I don’t have a gym here I’m using free weights at home and these walks as a way to stay in shape. I generally average around 8500 steps each day or about four miles. But yesterday I hit 10,000 steps in one day and...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 7, 2015 | General
Okay, the stubble thing is starting to bug me. Oliver Queen in Arrow, Mr. Reese in Person of Interest, Grant Ward and all the other pretty boys in Agents of SHIELD. I also notice that elegant villains get to shave — Loki, Harrison Wells in The Flash, Hannibal in Hannibal. Most of the leaders of Hydra. Scruffy seems to indicate you’re a low rent villain, a drug dealer or a terrorist. Then there’s a class of good guys who get to shave. Mr Finch in Person of Interest, Phil...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 5, 2015 | The Craft of Writing
One of the questions over on Facebook was what was the origin of the IMPERIALS series. It was actually a reaction to the Return of the Jedi. Certainly an inferior film compared to the first two Star Wars (though it looks like Shakespeare compared to what followed). But I digress. So here we are, Victor Milan and I watching Return of the Nehi… Jedi when suddenly there’s another damn Death Star, and it’s not really only half-built, it’s a trap. I leaned over to Vic...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 5, 2015 | The Craft of Writing
We’ve been discussing my writing process over on Facebook, but I thought I’d move the discussion over here to the website. These space opera books are going together differently then my other novels. I plot very carefully, I know all the big “tent pole” scenes that need to be in a novel. I know the little fiddly bit will occur to me as a write, but on these books I finish a chapter and have often moved several chapters beyond it when a scene will occur to me that...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 3, 2015 | Game/Writing
I’ve been moving very slowly on my second play through of Inquisition. Part of that is life intruding — a script to be written, a return to N.M., back to L.A., a move, and back home to New Mexico. I also hit a bug that irritated me and since I’m a completest I had to go back to a save prior to the bug and get it fixed. I couldn’t get the damn dragonologist to realize I had taken care of the White Claws and move his ass off to Skyhold. As I mentioned earlier I did...
