So, Brigid and I are planning to attend a workshop together in late February, which will be pretty danged cool–at least for me. On her side, she’s going to have to put up with being around her dorky dad for a week. My guess is that she’ll run off and hide with some other writers […]
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January reading
For the first time in awhile, I’m making some reasonable time to read most every day. This means that instead of reading almost wholly in the short fiction field, I’m getting into longer works. January, then, found me finish three novels, and a long novella (in addition to, of course, several short stories–I expect I’ll […]
Read More ...A story, stumbled upon
So I’m down in the basement today working away at this short story that’s due for a workshop by the end of Sunday. No problem. I’ve actually been fiddling with it for two days, and all is well. It’s a fine story. I am not disappointed in it. Then, through a serendipitous event or three, […]
Read More ...Getting better all the time
It’s getting better all the time It’s easy to think things are going to hell in a handbag in this world of ours. I mean, we’ve got the temperatures and the water levels rising, and we’ve got gun owners all over the country shooting folks (at least, as long as your country is the US), […]
Read More ...Behind every great woman …
I still get an occasional email from people I worked with in my corporate world. This weekend, I received one with several interesting links that I intend to talk about here over the next few days. This is one regarding gender in the workplace. Warning! Warning! Warning! Danger Will Robinson! — what follows is a […]
Read More ...What would a Zeppelin ticket go for today?
Apropos of nothing, I as made a feeble attempt at writing a steam punk story this past week, in which no zeppelins appear. This, I assume, will be a problem. # So, today, the local radio station we listen to in the morning had one of those silly little trivia things they do to give […]
Read More ...What do I do all day?
It’s been a busy day. Accomplishments: 3,400 words on a new story that’s shaping up. Dinner made (kinda). Laundry moved (kinda). A bit of vacuuming (mostly done as a way to get my brain reset on character development rather than plot movement). Fed cat. Fed me! When I left my “real” job, people often asked […]
Read More ...Embarrassed?
Okay … I admit I’m sometimes more than a bit dense, and I admit that I’m sometimes not the most adroit person in the area of the political zones that surround social and group interactions. But, I’ve got to admit that this thing where bigwig politicians in Indiana have moved another step closer to including […]
Read More ...Project manager vs. the artist: A Discussion of Time
Yes, it’s a very strange place, this space between my ears. It’s a place that stretches time, that plays with it, and that sometimes even pretends that time is something real. # Now that I am writing full time, I find that I am becoming considerably more sensitive to the passage of time within any […]
Read More ...“Bugs” and “Following Jules” Make the Cut!
I’m a couple days late here, but it’s nice to be able to note that two of my stories published last year made Tangent Online’s Recommended Reading List.
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