Author | Conflict Analyst | Presenter | Professor
Michael Livingston

The Blog

Revising and Revising

I took a few days off from actually writing anything related to Four Shards after I finished it up last week. Things were percolating in my mind, though, and today I set about doing some revisions to the first few chapters. Though revisions are tremendously tough to do for me, …

Back in Charleston

Our long vacation has come to an end. Around 7:30pm local time, we pulled into the campus of the Citadel, where cadets were already in presence. Back to reality, it seems. On the plus side, the three days of driving it took to get from Denver to here went as …

WorldCon 2008

I attended my first real speculative fiction convention today: WorldCon, which is being held in Denver this year. I had a terrific time, though circumstances dictated that I could only stay for a few hours. Still, in that brief time I talked to (in order of appearance) Brandon Sanderson, Eric …

Real Estate: Twin Lakes

Spent yesterday up among the highest mountains in the state of Colorado, looking at real estate. Our primary target was Twin Lakes, though we did stop to see what Leadville and Buena Vista had to offer. There’s some beautiful property up there — a few examples of which we can …

And Now Denver

Well, we’re now in the mountains above Denver, which will likely be our last stop before heading back East to Charleston. There’s blue sky above the pines outside my window, and I can see a little doe meandering the ridgeline a stone’s throw from the deck. It’s not a sad …