Upon the Wings of Greater Things

The creative endeavours of Starla Huchton

Sharing the Wonderful Misery (YWP Day #1)

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For those of you that follow me on social media, you know that I like to refer to my children as my Minions. I do my best to train them well, though I am far from an ideal evil genius, but I do what I can.

This month has seen the start of a new training exercise. The experiment may go down in a giant pile of flaming tantrums. Regardless, I push onwards with it.

I have decided to enroll the elder two Minions, v1.0 and v2.0, in the annual struggle of mind over matter that I have been a part of in the past. It is a mighty battle of will over words.

It is called…

National Novel Writing Month. [Read more…]

Out With the Old

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So it’s been awhile since I gave much thought to The Dreamer’s Thread, but with the launching of the spiffy new podiobooks.com site, along with a slew of email updates on the topic, I got to thinking about my old TDT cover. In particular, how much my design work has changed since I first put it together. This thinking was prompted by an email about covers from Podiobooks Godfather Evo Terra. I sent out a reply email explaining about my design stuff, when I realized that the one cover folks probably identify most with me is my absolute oldest work and not my best. I can see those other podiobook authors reading my email, checking me out on Podiobooks, and then promptly scoffing at my hubris.

That absolutely does not fly with me.

So, I set to myself to the task, worked my Photoshop mojo, and gave my first novel a make over. Because everyone knows a badly dressed book is far worse than a naked one.

The end result? Well, I’ll let you decide for yourself.

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New Work: Fires in the Snow

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A while back (like late spring 2011), I was approached by Alex White to see if I might be interested in writing a short story set in the world of The Gearheart. As an admirer of his work and always one up for a writing challenge, I accepted wholeheartedly, turning in the finished story in August ’11. Last winter, Alex started up a Chip-In fund to assist in paying for his son’s developmental assistance and gave this story and one other as one of the donor rewards.

The first part of that story is now live in podcast form.

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Writing Project Update

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You may be wondering why I’ve not posted anything new regarding my writing or projects since… OMG, January? *facepalm*

Truthfully, there hasn’t been a lot of news on this front. I’ve been concentrating mostly on my freelance book cover work at Designed by Starla, and I’m also getting ready for a big cross-country move in a few weeks. I am still writing, however, along with continuing to search for a home for Antigone’s Wrath.

I did have some news regarding that project recently. Twitter saw my joysplosion, as did Facebook, but I forgot, in my elation, to post about it here.

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My New Adventure and Why It’s Important

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If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you likely know about my new adventure.

I have finished my graphic design degree and am now actively seeking paid design work. I wanted to tell you all about this, and a little about why what I do is such an important service.

You can probably guess that as a writer I love telling stories. That is doubly true for my design work. Even if it’s a simple business card, my ultimate goal with everything I do is to create an image that tells a story about who or what the contents are. In a word, a story.

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