Happy New Year world. May 2016 be significantly better than 2015 was. That’s what happens during the ramp up to a Presidential election year in this country, we get a lot of pandering and fear mongering which seems to infect us like a virus, dumbing down our populace and turning us into frothing lunatics. I…
This post features an image of my new typewriter. Ain’t she spanking good? I’ll spend Christmas break taking it apart and cleaning it up and look forward to using it when possible. It’s never to early for New Year’s resolutions. I generally try not to make too many, we should have goals of self-improvement year…
It’s NaNoWriMo time, and the forums and chat waves are rife with writers who plan to finish their masterpiece novel of American literature in thirty short days. I’ve done National Novel Writers Month myself and found it… generated mixed results for me. The positive: I wrote a novel! Yeah me! I write my 50,000 word…
First up today: if you have a Reddit account, please run over to the Fantasy Writer’s forum and shoot my short story, The Gown, an upvote. I’m trying to win a writer’s contest, the Fantasy Writer’s Spooky October contest, which will earn me nothing at all other than my own self-pride. Yes, I’m totally shilling…
I see this all the time and its beginning to irk me. There are lots of forums where writers can share info, thoughts, ideas, etc. Inevitably a large number want to share the first few pages of their work in progress, get some critiques from folks on their direction and writing style. Since I write…
Ah, my wife. She is my muse, that’s for sure. Yesterday I received a super early Christmas gift, a leather bound journal that I can write thoughts and story ideas in and carry around with me. A little big for my pocket, but still pretty damned awesome. Marry a thoughtful woman, it’s a wonderful thing.…
I had forgotten how much time you can sink into a website. Even though I’m using WordPress, which makes building and modifying a website pretty damn easy for anyone with a modicum of technical aptitude (computer aptitude, not “rebuilding a small block V8” aptitude), there are still tons of things you can tweak and change,…
I have realized beyond a shadow of any reasonable doubt that I am decidedly old school. I resist the temptation to say simply old, because I do make an effort to keep up with current trends in the arts, music in particular, and technology. Being an IT tech has meant constantly updating my skills to…
The great floods of 2015 are upon us, and we have been deluged with rain for five days straight now. Not quite the biblical forty days and forty nights, but perhaps enough to back up the sewers. Thankfully we’re on a septic system, so at least we’ve got that going for us. I started writing…