Happy Freedom Day

A fellow writer friend of mine posted this this morning, and I thought it was amazingly relevant in today’s climate. So enjoy your Fourth of July celebrations, and remember what it’s all for, folks, remember what freedom really stands for.  

June is Gone

The halfway point of the year (unofficial) has come and gone.  We are into the second six months.  As always, it’s time for me to check in with how I’m doing. June was… spectacular.  I wrote 43,568 words, including a little over 34,000 words on the comic fantasy novel.  The average was 1450 plus words…

Frustrations

There is nothing more hair pulling than sitting around at work reading through an email thread that goes something like this: Email 1:  Group A needs access to Internal Network A so that they can monitor as part of Service A they provide.  How can we help them? Email 2 (from me):  We are Group…

Focused

I’ve completed a fair number of short stories this year.  Seven to date, with more in the pipeline.  I’ve continued to tweak, modify and see what works with the seven completed ones as well, so pretty much every time I submit one for possible publication it’s not exactly the same story it was that was…

The Internet is Really Wonderful

Ah, the Internet.  Or internet.  I’m not sure any longer if we’re supposed to capitalize it or not, but I don’t think it really matters.  Of course, I’m not a grammar and spelling Nazi – by now any of the three people reading this blog will have noticed my many editing errors – and so…

Halfway

It happened last Saturday and I didn’t even realize it.  It happened early in the day on what turned out to be a marathon writing morning of 3300 plus words.  It happened on the day we were planning a party for a bunch of family members to celebrate my oldest son’s graduation from high school.…

Winter is Civil

The wife and I were talking the other night about Captain America:  Civil War and its merits when compared with Captain America: Winter Soldier. WARNING:  the rest of this thread is uber geektastic.  Serious people who want Very Serious Discussions are encouraged to go find the blog for one of the PBS news shows, I…

Two for Tuesday

Usually Monday’s are the crappy day of the week, but this week Tuesday decided to stand in for Monday since Monday was a holiday and, thus, enjoyable. Two rejections.  Two.  Both for short stories I had submitted, and one of them the aforementioned “Ricky Flies” story that they had liked initially, but on further review…