just a cool quote

“The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.”  -Robert Frost
Is this true, or what?!? We love doing the things that are fun, and we shut down for everything else…I love this quote!
-Whig

major inspiration or just showing off?

You know, during this huge collaborative process of writing a book between 9 authors who have never met, you look for inspiration in the strangest places.
Some look for it in music, others look for it in quotes from dead people. I happened to find a recent inspiration for writing at the strangest of places…a bookstore!
Okay, the [...]

Churchill looking over our shoulders

‘Writing a book is an adventure.  To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement.  Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant.  The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to [...]

new excerpt available

Please enjoy some of the opening chapter of our novel, written by Esr960.
Excerpt: Chapter One

Constrain, or get brevity

So… does size matter? We were talking among ourselves about writing and how long the longest piece we’ve ever written was. I’m a nonfiction sort, a tech writer by trade, so I’m used to gigantic how-tos and grant proposals, but not grand stories. When I write fiction, it’s the micro-mini super-short one-paragraph tiny type of [...]

Artifact writer a star!

Our very own Cvalin made an appearance on an episode of X-Files title “Release.” Here is that clip.

The Sound of Writing

I don’t always listen to music while I write, but I often get inspiration from it. I’ll be sitting in my car listening to the radio or a CD, and either the music or the lyrics or both will give me an idea that I’ll start to work on in my mind, and by the [...]

New Artist Blog

Hey all, I’m new to this blogging , but thanks to my friends here (thanks whig & cv) I’m giving this blog thing a whirl so feel free to drop by my personal blog (http://dgtrekker.wordpress.com/) and check out some of my non-Artifact related stuff…but make sure you stay tuned here for your OFFICAL Artifact news, we [...]

why do I write?

This is a question that I have been asking myself lately.
“Why do I write?”
Is it for the cheers? No. Is it for the money? Definitely not! Is it for fame? Naw…at least not yet!
Then why? Why do I take the valuable time out of my day to create something that only a few might read?
Because [...]

Writing is the easiest hard-work

So, about a week ago, it became my turn in our big project to write a chapter.
Have you ever waited for something for so long, and waited, and waited ,and waited…and then, just as quick as it started, it was over?
That’s what happened to me.
We are about six weeks into this project, each of us [...]