If you follow this place at all, you know that Lisa and I have undertaken a fairly diligent approach to both activity and diet over the past few years, and that this has given us some pretty good results. All good for us. Our frames of mind are similar, but a bit different in the […]
Read More ...All Will Work Out in the End
I’m in what I expect to be the final dash for Episode 5, Lords of Existence. Now that I fully get it, I went back to the beginning this morning, and ran through the first half of it again (55-60 pages or so). I would like to get the second half done tomorrow morning, but […]
Read More ...Superman Over Russia
For everyone who says Superman is fictional, I’ll just note he’s made Scientific American. Dude’s real, I tell you. Dude’s real. Share Me
Read More ...Something to Say
A story, I think, really ought to have something to say. And episode 5, which will almost certainly be titled Lords of Existence, is at that point where I’m working particularly hard to ensure it says what I want it to say. To me at least. The great thing about the “have something to say,” […]
Read More ...Episode 5 – In the Bag
Happy anniversary to my sweetie! # So, yeah, I’ve been working on the fantasy series again, and it’s been going well enough. But this morning I finally figured out what episode 5 is about, and suddenly things seem so much easier. Like most such epiphanies, this one had a sense of “well, duh” about it. […]
Read More ...Filed under: THINGS YOU NEVER KNOW UNTIL YOU JUST HAVE TO
There’s a certain ballet associated with getting off a treadmill desk. When you hit the off button, it doesn’t just come to a stop. It s.l.o.w.l.y … slows down, which is danged inconvenient. So, instead, you just hit the button, take two steps, and then let the treadmill carry you back about half its throw, […]
Read More ...Writing, Rewriting, and Copyediting
Last night, I had another brief distraction from the novellas in the form of the need to review the copy edited manuscript of “The Legend of Parker Clark and Lois Jane.” This is the story that will be published soon in the Fiction River anthology titled “How to Save the World.” It’s always interesting to […]
Read More ...I’ll Have a Diversion, With a Side Dish of Short Story
Yes, I did say that yesterday I started back on the fantasy novella project, and I did say that yesterday it went well. Of course, today I was diverted by some work I needed to accomplish on a pair of short stories. Welcome to the life of a writer with a day-job. One of those […]
Read More ...Garrick Returns
This morning found me return to the series of fantasy novellas I had been working on so diligently last fall until I got side-tracked by NaNoWriMo, and then a series of short stories, and then the Oregon Writer’s Workshop. I still have work running on a couple short stories, and I have a friend’s WIP […]
Read More ...Resolution #3 – Top Short Stories of February
My third resolution was to read a short story every day, and I’ve managed to pretty much average that kind of run without too much difficulty. I’m going to run through my top five of the month here in a sec, but let me address what the astute of you might point out–that my list […]
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