New Site Update (with WordPress, no less)
Geez, you spend a little bit of effort upgrading the blog, switching architectures, updating images, importing some 18 years of...
Geez, you spend a little bit of effort upgrading the blog, switching architectures, updating images, importing some 18 years of...
Reposting this on the new system because it’s a great password checker. One of my favourite Web comics, xkcd, illustrates...
Are you a fan of Science Fiction? Like writing about future worlds, advanced technology, and the possibility of alien life?...
If you’re struggling with cover art for your book, you should read this article. Things have changed since Amazon and...
If you’ve not read Wool by Hugh Howey, you may want to get on it. Yes, a large omnibus of...
Or why’s a metre a metre? A very interesting video from SciShow. Apparently, the definition of a metre/meter has been...
Another awesome video from Kurzgesagt. Makes you feel big and significant, doesn’t it? (via www.youtube.com)
A neat review of author Caitlín R. Kiernan’s new work, Agents of Dreamland. This is a quest story. With a...
A neat guest post on the Tor/Forge Blog from V.E. Schwab about setting and A Darker Shade of Magic. In...
From acclaimed thriller-suspense novelists Heather Graham and Jon Land comes “The Rising.” Read an excerpt on the Tor/Forge blog. Twenty-four...
As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.
Writers often treat the bio like it’s an interview or something. Maybe like they’re having a conversation with you, the reader. While it may work sometimes, the most common way to write a bio is to write in the 3rd person.
I’m like those writers, and I’m talking to you directly, unlike the common way to do a bio. You should see my About page. It makes sense to me, since this is a bit which describes my blog’s website. When I get famous enough that I don’t have time to talk to you, I’ll have an intern write everything in 3rd person. Until then, you get to talk to me.
Like blogs of old, this one is a personal document of the comings and goings of me. Articles I’ve written, links I’ve posted, videos I liked, etc. Here, a first-person perspective is the way to go, at least for now. So, this is my site. I’m D. H. McKee, a sometimes artist, sometimes writer. Mostly just a guy on the internet.