Posted on March 30, 2020
I’ve done the math and this is what’s coming:
Posted on February 23, 2020
The Reason? Mace Windy.
Hi, my name is Jake MacMillan and I’m a rewrite-aholic. And apparently I’m also a hack comic who just puts “aholic” on the end of everything as a punchline. Whatever you want to call it, I’m addicted to… Read More
Posted on February 15, 2020
The Beta Bounce
I just go the comments back from a beta reader for my upcoming dark fantasy. As usual, the results were a mixed bag which is exactly what you hope for. All positive remarks are not the goal here,… Read More
Posted on December 2, 2019
Opening Day
It’s 123 days until opening day for the Washington Nationals. This is important to me and about a million other people, but not at all to anyone else. I played Pop Warner football growing up and spent the… Read More
Posted on October 13, 2019
Why don’t they…
This is a tiny collection of logic holes in science fiction. Now, this is for my personal amusement only. In most cases these holes don’t ruin anything. They’re just fun to think about after the fact. So why… Read More
Posted on August 12, 2019
Bad Tactics
I served in the military, but I am not a military man. I’ve never read any books on military tactics and would say I only have the glancing acquaintance with the famous strategies of, say, Agincourt, Little Big… Read More
Posted on August 3, 2019
Arriving Late Podcast Ep 23: Nerve
Episode 22 suffered complications from a technical glitch and had to go live on a farm upstate where it can spend all of its times admiring rainbows. Ep 23, however, is here and covers a far more important… Read More
Posted on July 21, 2019
Horror vs Fantasy Redux
I’ve written before about the key differences between horror and adventure (a term I use to include all the flavors of fantasy that are not horror), specifically here: horror-vs-adventure Now I have a reason to talk about this… Read More