An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (Review)

Two years ago I wrote a book that flew off my fingers. The writing was some of the easiest I’ve ever done, and the words poured out of me like water flowing through a spigot. The book, now completed and having gone through several rounds of editing which included hiring an editor to help with…

Tweeting the Day Away

I have been remiss in getting up the vacation posts, but I’ve started writing one and will get around to it, I promise.  Mostly I’ve been writing and writing and… well writing.  And that doesn’t count the time I’ve wasted on Twitter, which I’ve suddenly found infinitely more useful. For those of you who want…

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.…

Fame and Fortune

I sometimes wonder if I missed my time.  Most of my favorite authors started writing when they were younger, not ditching the dream until they were solidly middle aged to pursue it, hanging on with dogged determination until they finally broke through.  Granted, many more authors started when they were young and clung tenaciously to…

Socially Media

Clearly I have been remiss in blogging.  I am equally as remiss on twittering, or tweeting, or whatever you want to call the platform I will henceforth refer to as micro-chat.  Seriously, how can anyone say anything useful in 140 characters?  Most of the time I see people post, and post, and post again to…

Drone on and on…

I’ve been wanting a “drone” for ages now.  I hesitate to call most of what we think of as drones “drones” because, in fact, they are rarely truly autonomous except for brief moments if they lose contact with their radio controller and lower themselves to the ground.  The average American consumer is not purchasing predators…