… me, I guess. Here’s another reason to look forward to full-time freelancing. kinda. Today I slept in, which means that if I’m going to hit a medium-fair wordcount I’ll need to cram writing into the rest of my day. Yes, I know. Woe is me. But still … Since I’m on the topic, here’s […]
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The Evil Chuckle of a Story in Progress
This morning is a good example of why I’m looking forward to doing this writing thing full time. Yes, this is almost certainly just me saying the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, but you would think that after about two decades of this I would get better at making […]
Read More ...Joe Posnanski on Vlad
If you love baseball (or sports in general, or just occasional interesting things from unusual angles), you’ve got to read Joe Posnanski. Here’s a recent bit on Vlad Guerrero that captures him, and perhaps the core of the game, as perfectly as possible.
Read More ...Damn You, Story
Lord of the Freeborn, the serial previously known as Episode Seven, is now (I believe) in its final shape. This does not mean it is finished–that would be far too simple, now, wouldn’t it? It means only that all the basic pieces are there, and that it is now ready for its final pass. At […]
Read More ...Do People Actually Know You?
Now that the news of my impending freelancerdom is filtering its way around work, I’m getting an interesting collection of comments and questions. This is because there are two kinds of people at work–those who have been around long enough to remember that I write and those that are newer. I really don’t talk about […]
Read More ...Coming Late to the Kat Howard Party
Kat Howard is one of the most interesting new writers around. I had the pleasure of sitting on a panel with her up in Detroit. I had a great time, of course, and along the way I came to the conclusion that she’s just a really impressive person. I had read a few things from […]
Read More ...Pain
As you may remember from a couple of my earlier posts (here, and here), Lisa has been working her way through a somewhat difficult foot surgery. This has caused us to speak about pain with relative frequency. As the usual practice of Monte Carlo random Interwebs linkage following would have it, I ran into this […]
Read More ...New Beginnings
This is one of the weirdest, strangest, and (I guess) most wonderful, remarkable, and exciting posts I’ve ever written. It’s one that I’ve anticipated for as long as I’ve been writing, which is … well … a pretty long time. My first published story was almost 19 years ago, after all, and I had been […]
Read More ...Huh.
My FB Feed today brings me a link to this review of my story “Bugs” from Tangent Online. I strongly suspect that seeing “Recommended” as a final word in a review of my work will never get old. [grin] # “So, just what does a writer do?” I’ve been getting that question a lot over […]
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