by Hyram Voltage | Nov 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Sometimes you just got to live your art. Just before Halloween I saw in the Rose Is Rose newspaper cartoon that MeeMa had built a chute to slide the candy down to trick or treaters. She tied the slide to the hand rail that ran along the front steps of her house. OK, I... by Hyram Voltage | Oct 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
How can you write about inventors without trying to invent something? I’m not talking about slapping something together on a lark. I’m talking about dedicating part of your life to making something that’s never existed before. That last sentence... by Hyram Voltage | Oct 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Authors often brag about hiding in their writing cave scribbling away, not seeing sunlight for days, not socializing, just cranking out words. I must be a lousy writer. I run six to seven zoom meetings a month. One set of meeting for a screenwriting group and another... by Hyram Voltage | Aug 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Saturday was sad. Two newspaper comic creators/spearheads announced they were retiring. That’s not bad. If you plan and live below your means, and save a little money then retiring is great. But during these times I need all the humor I can get. And the comics... by Hyram Voltage | Jul 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
A friend submitted a piece to a newsletter, and he’s ashamed of it. In the piece he expressed his opinion. Those opinions are not the the groups opinions. His opinions are not immoral or criminal. They’re his opinions. Why have the politically correct... by Hyram Voltage | Jul 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
Sometime you read a story and it’s not great, maybe forgettable. But the book has an idea and that idea has legs. Gallagher’s Glacier has a standard plot of asteroid miners treated like slaves rebelling. One of the heroes of the story builds a space ship...