Summer has finally given way to a chilly, cloudy, glorious autumn, easily my favorite of the four seasons (no offense to Frankie Valli). Skies are gray, air is crisp, pumpkin pie is pending, and my birthday is just around the corner. Life is good. It’s been busy around these parts these days. I’ve been working […]
All Quiet on the Western Front…
Yeah, it’s been a while since I’ve had a blog post up. But I have a very good excuse! It hasn’t been the general sorts of things, like laziness, or forgetfulness, or just plain sick of blogging. No, in April we discovered that we had to move out of the nice home we had been […]
2013 Hugo Nominations announced
Between family, drawing, and my crippling addiction to video games, I leave myself very little time for the simple pleasures of reading. I used to read pretty much any and all scifi and fantasy that was published, but these days I can barely manage to stay ahead of Hugo and Nebula nominations, and catching the eventual […]
From 2012 to 2013
Yeah, I’m doing that whole looking back at the year behind us, and looking forward to the year ahead sort of thing today. Bear with me, I haven’t written a blog post in several months. I’m a bit rusty. All in all, 2012 was a pretty good year for us. It was the year my […]
What I’ve been up to: ART!
Okay, so it’s been roughly a month since my site redesign, and I only just today remembered that I had a blog. I had planned on only posting about once a month anyway, so consider it a WIN that I’m getting to it before the end of September. But that’s okay, honestly, because I’ve been […]
Welcome to the new NathanielPayne.com!
I’ve revamped the website once again. I was growing tired of the old site that was plagued with numerous PHP errors and content positioning problems. This time I’ve tried to put together something cleaner, better organized, and not nearly as cluttered. I really like the new look, and I hope it’s something that sticks around […]
‘Write what you know’ will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect. That is the only way out of the dead end of the Serious Novel which so many ambitious people want to write and no one on earth […]
wilwheaton: fishingboatproceeds: robofillet: effyeahnerdfighters: colfr: Jennifer Pinches – the Nerdfighter gang sign on the Women’s gymnastics team final in the Olympics Woo hoo! You can follow Jenni on twitter here. Best of luck to her and the Great Britain team! DUDE. Go Pinches! I WILL REBLOG THIS FROM ALL THE PLACES. Amazing. Just amazing. Okay, […]
seenontabletop: Seen here is only half of the group we entertained at our home Friday night at the inaugural hosting of our new monthly game night! We had more than a dozen crazy awesome friends over and had a couple of different tables playing Settlers of Catan, followed by some Zombie Dice and Dominion (a […]
Brought home two scifi books I’ve been wanting to read from the library today. Which one should I read first? I’ll let the internet decide, because the internet is always reasonable and correct.