by Hyram Voltage | Feb 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
Time; you can’t buy it, you can only measure it, use it, or waste it. You can write a Steampunk book. You can write a good science fiction book. But it’s going to take time. Lots and lots of time. You can crave out time to write. It’s not easy. The... by Hyram Voltage | Feb 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
Does your character need a character arc? Think about it. Did Sherlock Holmes change after each investigation? No, he was and always will be Sherlock Holmes. Did Bilbo Baggins change at the end of the Hobbit? No, when he got home he wanted to be a hobbit. He did not... by Hyram Voltage | Feb 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
It’s Thursday. The wind is off the ocean and blows into the garage where I am working. A cold, bitter wind. I had a deadline due on Friday for a electronic project. I was pushing it. I had been pushing it for days and things kept coming up to delay the project.... by Hyram Voltage | Jan 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
It happened again. A friend had a thumb drive die. Of course it contained the only copy of a file that he needed. Thumb drives are good, useful, even necessary, but they will fail just like hard drives. Always back up your files on two or more thumb drives. And keep... by Hyram Voltage | Jan 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
A smith is a person that makes things using a hammer and fire. A silver smith takes a lump of silver and using a hammer, and heating the lump when it needs softening, to make things out of silver. A silver worker is all the others that make things out of silver like... by Hyram Voltage | Jan 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
I apologize for the last couple of post being late. My main computer died. Hard. I got the new blue screen of death with the frowny face. The computer tech had to wipe the computer and re-install windows. Decades of work has to be re-installed. I did not lose much...