Daniel Bautz

Month: August 2019

  • W.I.P. Marching Forward

    My current work in progress is slow in progress. It’s not an easy write by any stretch. It’s emotional, it’s touchy, and not something I want to stare in its face every day. It is something I need to get out, something that needs talking about, and I can’t walk away from it. My other…

  • BooBerry: My Personal Time Machine

    Certain things take me back in time. When I see them, it’s like I’ve gone through a wormhole and come out in my childhood. Around this time of year, it happens a lot. Maybe I’m walking down the cereal aisle at Meijer and I find myself on the floor with a gallon of milk and…

  • Who Is Your Hero?

    Who is your hero? Every kid gets this kind of question at some point. It has several incarnations, who do you want to be like if you could be anyone who would you be, and on an on. My first recollection of answering this question is indelible. At Lucas Congregational Church in Sunday school, I…

  • Waiting Again

    Why is this so trying? Waiting and holding. Excited, nervous, hopeful, and nauseatingly anticipating a response from an agent is the hardest thing for me to deal with. While I’m confident that my manuscript is worthy of publishing, this process has been a confidence challenging journey. With a full request sent out, the waiting starts,…

  • I’ll Take The Challenge

    I’ll take the challenge. All that will happen is that I will get better in the long run. Unless you’re a special talent, the path to success will test your endurance and character. I’m not a special talent, this doesn’t come easy to me. Often I’m confounded by what I need to do, what the…

  • Politics = Pro-Wrestling

    I abhor politics. This will be as close to expressing an opinion on political matters as I will get. We are all inundated with political views, beliefs and vomitous punditry exploded into our social media feeds. Everyone is right and they are rearing for a fight if you have the audacity to disagree. I don’t…

  • War On Christmas: Down The Chimney Chapter One: Reindeer Down

    This is the first chapter of War On Christmas: Down The Chimney. You can follow along with the story as it’s posted every other week by subscribing at Channillo.com! Once you join you can read as many authors as you want. Chapter One: Reindeer Down He tired of looking at Dunder and Blixem’s brown eyes.…

  • Hard to Explain

    Hard to explain things to folks that don’t write the process of exploring the possibilities of getting your work published. The process is grueling, brutal, and makes it difficult to keep pressing on. The accomplishment of finishing a manuscript is an unbelievable and monumental task in its own right, but it is nothing in comparison…

  • I Am Not You

    Has this ever happened to you? You are in a mixed group of folks, different backgrounds, genders and what not, and everyone is getting along. One by one the group whittles itself down to a smaller group of people who share the same background and gender. You are left in this homogeneous group. Then one…

  • The Diary of Cotton Mather

    A little while back, I became obsessed with the famed Puritan, Cotton Mather. In large part, his mention in the Washington Irving tale, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, put me on the trail. Me, being a paranormal radio show host at the time, found this tidbit most intriguing. Where I never gave it a second…

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