Q: You also write fantasy. Why didn’t you use one of your gaming names, like Shandryll Spiritwind and go with a fantasy theme?

A: Shandryll is a changed spelling of the name of a character in a book, so I didn’t feel like I could use it. As for why I didn’t go with a fantasy theme… even my fantasy is a little dark, so staying with the macabre side of it all ties all of the genres I write in together.

These two kind of need to be together.

Q: Where did the Macabre in your name come from?

A: I started noticing an influx of people using the name Kryson, so I needed to set my name apart. I was Kryson Poet for awhile, but I stopped writing poetry. Kryson Macabre was an easy jump seeing as how my old BBS was called Kryson’s Macabre, Macabre Manor was orignally Kryson’s Macabre and my online journal and blog was Kryson’s Macabre.

Q: But why Macabre?

A: I love horror movies, horror books, thrillers, and the like.

Q: Why haven’t you done anything with your about page?

A: Ugh. I hate writing about myself. I know, tons of people say that and it’s a cop out, but I really have no clue what to put on an about page. I’ll look around and see what types of things people put on their about pages and get mine written soon. Really, I will.

It’s a beautiful rainy fall day outside. My flowers are covered with little rain droplets. It’s just chilly enough to need a jacket, but not cold enough to stay inside. The leaves in the trees are changing to brillant hues of gold, red, orange, yellow, and purple.

This is by far my favorite time of year.

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Endings and beginnings…
Crescent Moon Haberdashery
Tee Morris gives fabulous ad!
New project, Almost True, starts soon.
First voice mail feedback! Thanks, Jack!
Why I don’t consider myself published…
Lunatix-Online.com
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Q: Where did the name Kryson come from?

Kryson is a combination of my first name and my last (maiden) name with the spelling changed. I thought I was being so original at 12 or 13 when I came up with it! Little did I know. When I found the internet in 1990, I found out that Kryson is the last name of a football player, the name of a business (Kryson Technologies, Inc. I believe), and the name of a character in Dr. Who.

I read a post the other day where someone was talking about updating 30+ blogs. I have problems finding the time to update one blog. I can’t even begin to imagine what it would be like to try to keep up with over 30 of them. Sheesh.

Based on the last random question, I’ve decided to try podcasting a short story in the next couple of weeks. I’m not quite finished with it yet. I’m trying not to be a perfectionist about it or I’ll never be happy with it and I’ll never release it. The first one is going to be the hardest. I think it will be easier after that.

So, I’ll be launching this thing for real in a couple of weeks. No more Starting From Nothing. First will be the short story I’m working on now, then I’m going to launch into a series of short stories I’ve been working on over the years. This is all leading up to the launch of my first novel, which probably won’t happen until 2009. Unfortunately, November and December are entirely too busy for me to attempt the novel before then. I also won’t be participating in NaNoWriMo this year. I wish I could. I enjoyed myself in 2006, but I tried last year and failed miserably due to time restraints. This year is going to be worse.

Things are not all quiet on the podcasting front, but things are in flux as I switch gears. Just a couple of weeks and I’ll be doing this for real. Scary!

Q: Why aren’t you releasing your fiction on your podcast?

A: I’m trying to get the hang of podcasting at the moment. I don’t want it to sound completely horrible when I put my fiction out there. I’m not going to be attempting a huge production nor tons of special effects because I simply don’t have the equipment for it, but I also don’t want it to sound like crap either.

I’m going to be trying my hand at a short story in the next couple of weeks.

Happy Birthday, Mom! See you in a few hours!

Because I’m too lazy to put together an FAQ at the moment, I bring you random questions people have asked me. For some reason, people have asked me a lot of questions about my name.

Q: Why are you using Kryson Macabre instead of your real name?

A: My real name is so common you could probably guess it in just a few tries. It doesn’t stand out, it isn’t cool, it blends in to the 4,000,000 people that have the same name I do. I’ve also been using the name Kryson since 1984-ish and more people know me by Kryson than anything.