Archive for the ‘Writing’ Category

MattBooker.info – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Saturday, April 20th, 2013

Alright. This post has been a long time coming. I’d meant for it to be a kind of New Years Resolution, but April still counts, right?

Damn right it does. If we don’t try to better ourselves every day, then what’s the point in getting up?

“You gotta pee sometime, man.”

You’re not helping.

^_^

Point is, there are some things I need to address, and some resolutions that I need to enact. Don’t worry, it’s nothing bad, but just because it isn’t bad doesn’t mean everyone reading this will think it’s good. I’d like to think you will, at least for those of you who come here for more than just the TF guides.

And that leads into…

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Stream of Conscious Sweat

Wednesday, April 10th, 2013

I sleep during the day. Unless I wake up and can’t sleep.

I was plastered to the sheets by sweat, so when I pried myself loose I slouched over to the computer and tried to distract myself. This is the result. It’s grumpy. It rambles.

But I found it worth posting.

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Ray Bradbury

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

Ray Bradbury died today.

Something Wicked This Way Comes is my favorite book. I always have a copy of it on my desk. This book is full of wordplay, as was Mr. Bradbury, of wit and alliteration and a feel of the fantastic.

While Mr. Howard and Mr. Burrows taught me many things, it was here where I found that words could truly dance, like coming upon a dew-limned meadow of fairies, beholding enigmatic and arcane rights, veiled in their position on the periphery of conscious thought.

That never really left me, and I am courting their secrets still.

Goodnight, Mr. Bradbury. You never met me, but you spoke to me intimately. You were not what inspired me to be an author, but you helped inspire me to be a better one.

~Matt Booker

NaNoWriMo II: The Revenge: Explained

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

If you haven’t already, go have a look at NaNoWriMo II: The Revenge – Day 1 so I don’t have to do much of a recap.

Screw it, here’s the recap! Back in 2009 I did my first participation in National Novel Writing Month over at nanowrimo.org. Every November they get people from all over the world to attempt writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. It’s madness, and a topic I’ll cover in a later post.

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What is this I don’t even

Sunday, April 1st, 2012

Hello again, dear readers.

Some of you may find yourself asking, “Matt Booker, what’s going on?”

Maybe even, “Y U NO POST MOAR?” or “What does purple taste like?” and “Weren’t you writing a book?”

Those answers and more, after the jump!

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NaNoWriMo II: The Revenge – Day 1

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

NaNoWriMo, oh boy! That’s where I’m a Viking!

There’s a capital V for extra Viking.

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Coming Soon. Again.

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

For those of you who’ve been wondering why the site’s been down for a couple months (and why there hadn’t been a whole lot of new posts before that), remember that book series I was working on for the last few years?

The first book is done being written and I’m working with an editor and illustrator for it. Yep. Close to 150,000 words and should be fully illustrated. I’m not going to say much about it in this post, but suffice to say if you’re a fan of the blog I think you’ll get a kick out of the book.

MattBooker.info is back. Sort of. Something screwy is going on with the database and I’m working on getting it fixed. I’ve just got to go through and re-upload all the images.

So you’ll have access to the guides again soon. :)

And with my new host comes unlimited bandwidth and unlimited storage space. So no more small pictures linking to imageshack! Images too big for the format of the blog will either be linked to on imageshack, or they’ll be linked to on here.

Hope you all have been well.

~Matt Booker

Dear Luke

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Dear Doug, Dear Luke,

It was nice to have you crash visit at our place the other night afternoon. Staying up late Eating pizza and  watching Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog, The Legend of Neil, and Father Ted Olympic Curling while you opened all the transformers we picked up for you.

But I want you to know, Bacon Rampage saw the note you left in the bathroom.

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Marriage Post

Friday, February 19th, 2010

I got married last weekend. We didn’t pick the date because of Valentines day, though we’ll probably get that comment for the rest of our lives, but picked the day because of two things.

First, my wife’s brother is in the military and we had to work a bit around his schedule, and second, it was already our anniversary. So we had to learn a new month, but the day was still the same. :D

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Ramble about Love

Monday, January 4th, 2010

This is a quick response to Esoteric’s post.

You know, I used to pine and be a depressed wounded poet, lamenting and yearning and all that.

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