Yesterday was Halloween. At our house, we are on the wrong side of a very busy road where the speed limit increases to 55 mph, so we don’t get trick or treaters. That means we really don’t bother with the holiday since the funnest part of it isn’t something we get to enjoy. I do…
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…
I wish I were on the road again, but in this case I mean “back to real life instead of a long, slow, enjoyable vacation drive with the wife.” Yesterday was the start of my second week back to work since we returned, and the first day I finally hit my mark with writing again…
In a burst of creativity this morning and with time to spare, it being a Saturday, I finished the final edits on Shadow of a Doubt, the first Mirabel Sinclair urban fantasy noir novel. Noir fantasy? Well you get the idea. Formerly known as Mercy Sinclair, but renamed due to the existence of Mercy Thompson,…
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…
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.…
Spring came. It didn’t wait until the end of May, it came in April this year, with nice sunny days and many warm one as well. It’s taken a little vacation so its been cooler and a bit damp lately, but not so much its bothersome. Still, all in all it was a very nice…
Of course I mean March is magical if by magical I mean “awful.” We’ve been hit by the plague. I started getting sick Tuesday evening, was in full-blown illness by Wednesday midday, and was off my feet most of Thursday and Friday. I was moving around more Saturday and Sunday, but still haven’t overcome the…
It snuck up on me, it did. The Holidays came and went, and I’ve been on a “learn all about typewriters” binge since I got my Smith Corona before Christmas. I almost pulled the trigger on an early 1970’s Olympia SM9, considered by some to be the finest manual typewriter (portable, though it’s a big…
I’m not going to watch the news, I’m not going to watch the news. Seriously, the events of the last few days are exactly why I no longer watch the news anymore, why I listen to books in CD in the car, etc. The ridiculous fear mongering and panic from vocal idiots just pisses me…