Well, since I seem to be getting a lot of hits from Russia lately, today I thought I would share an amusing fact. I'm sure most of you reading this are familiar with the former Soviet Union, or the U.S.S.R.(those of you reading from Russia might have heard of it, but know it by a slightly different acronym).

American audiences might have seen C.C.C.P. here and there, in fact there's even a gaming website using the name. I remember in junior high a friend of mine excitedly insisting we should all call the former Soviet Union the C.C.C.P.

And the funny thing is, reading this in text, I can almost guarantee each and every one of you is reading that acronym wrong(except, again, those of you who speak the right language), its actually the S.S.S.R..

Do you ever think about how straws work?

As another rarity, I am going to post a story here in it's entirety. This one is slated for release in the 5th volume of the Course Books:

So I just realized I missed my anniversary, today is November 10th and this whole thing started on November 2nd, one year and 8 days ago today. Wow. Well, I'd like to say its been fun, to genuflect on my successes, to announce that I have made some actual progress... but I can't really do any of that because it'd be a bit of a lie.

Today I am going to share a little excerpt from the opening of Where the Heart Is, the first in a series of light novels I have been working on.

A small, pretty random story chunk, enjoy:

So I'd like to draw everyone's attention to my web comic, Development, and more specifically to our current fan-art competion! Catman(so named because he drives a caterpillar tractor everywhere), is a minor re-occuring character in the series. Development has just finished its first story-arc so you've got some back-issues to catch up on if you so desire.

This is just a little excerpt from The Next Progression. I'm hoping by the time I find a publisher, I'll have some very anxious fans:

I'm going to do something I haven't done in a few posts and put up another story piece. This one comes from my latest book, The Inclination to Destiny, available just to many places to count:

Well, today I'm back and I spent the whole morning working in 3DS Max. My old friend and great passion, 3D will hopefully become an exciting extension to my my writing. I have already brought a few pieces of my story-world to life here and here, but it doesn't seem as though its interesting all that many people.

In honor of my first ever actual follower, I'm going to post a segment out of The Concourse to Victory. And in unrelated news,  The Inclination to Destiny is available on Kindle for a reasonable price, as compared to the price AuthorHouse wants for its ebooks. Anyway, story segment time:

I’d like to open by saying that economics blows.

All right, so as for those of you who read regularly(none of you) you will know that if I have one great passion, it is writing. If I have two great passions, the second slot is torn between legos and computers. Today its computers.