If you’ve followed along, you know I’ve been chatting about Heinlein’s Rules. They are good, and important, and everything else you can say about them. They are also a little dated in that they presume the existence of an editor, but we can sidestep that a bit. Or, at least I sidestepped them a bit […]

Yes, I missed a day. Such are the weird bits of life, right? But here I am today, ready to dig into the fourth of Heinlein’s rules—a process I’ve been going through expressly to question why it’s always rule #3 (“don’t rewrite”) that gets all the angst from most writers. Specifically, back when I read […]

So here I am, at the third of Heinlein’s rules. I did the first rule a few days back, and the second yesterday. As I noted yesterday, the original premise that got me going had to do with the idea that the controversy surrounding these rules is often placed (or always placed) in the wrong […]

For reasons that I noted in yesterday’s post, I’ve found myself writing a mini-series about Heinlein’s rules. The original premise that got me going had to do with the idea that the controversy surrounding these rules is often placed (or always placed) in the wrong area. By that I mean writers gnash their teeth over […]

Yesterday I saw Dean Wesley Smith wrote about Heinlein’s rules again. This is a fairly normal thing for him. It’s kind of his shtick, for the lack of a better term. He’s known as a proponent of fast writing, and limited editing. At least that’s the rep, you know? That’s all good. I’ve been a […]

Getting excited for the launch of Outfield Magicked, book 3 of Brigid and my Fairies and Fastballs series!

I occasionally drop a video into my illustrious YouTube channel. That’s a line I don’t think I’d have ever thought I’d be writing back in the day, but welcome to the world, right? I am thinking about it that way because today I decided that I’d go ahead and let you all see the little […]

I’ve been spending a lot of time getting my Kickstarter project for my collection of Analog stories together. 1100 Digital Stories in an Analog World, is a title that makes me happy on so many levels. This morning I put the finishing touches on the Audio version of “Unfolding the Multi-cloud,” one of its short […]

It is a fun new age, right? I mean, sure, Kickstarter (and crowd funding) has been around for a minute now—so long that sometimes it’s hard to remember exactly how interesting, unique, and exciting these things are. I love Kickstarted specifically because it’s made such inroads that it’s now NORMAL for readers to connect directly […]

It’s strange how things go in cycles and have a synchronicity to them, isn’t it? In this case it’s Wu-Tang Clan, which—not surprisingly—I’ve been very much aware of, but hadn’t come up in my sphere for a little bit. All of a sudden, though, Wu-Tang Clan found their way into being referenced in my world […]