Year: 2009

  • I Got My SENTENCE!

    Bouncing around like a lunatic. I’m so happy. I FINALLY got the Sentence for Dreaming The Dead! An archeologist stumbles over a man who cannot exist and his key to immortality, and in doing so makes herself a target of the immortals bent on hiding the secret. The Sentence, incidentally, is the key to writing…

  • E-Mail is eating my life

    I have a novel I want to write. I have this really cool new course I want to create. I have these awesome videos I want to do for http://writercrashtests.com I want to get Rebel Tales up and running. And I have a notebook full to overflowing with other ideas—more novels, more courses, more freebies.…

  • Updated Writers’ Guidelines for Rebel Tales

    Due to a number of questions via various channels, I’ve updated the Rebel Tales Writers’ Guidelines. I’ve done a lot of clarification on payment, and other smaller clarifications, added some new definitions, restructured the page so that writing guidelines are first, publishing information is second, and submission guidelines are third, and corrected errors pointed out.…

  • Rebel Tales Writers’ Guidelines Now Posted

    They read like a short, curmudgeonly course on how to write fiction, but I have them up and posted. You can read them here: Rebel Tales Writers’ Guidelines As noted elsewhere, I’m NOT ready for submissions yet. But you may have to write a whole new story to fit the guidelines, so I’ve posted them…

  • Building Rome In A Day, or How Not to Move

    Somewhere along the way, someone told me something was impossible. Actually, I know exactly where and when. It was my first day of seventh-grade art class, and my art teacher told me that the gray in the center of the color wheel, that color representative of what you got when you mixed all the colors,…

  • Keynote Address From The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change

    More on Global Warming. Global Climate Crisis… Weather… Whatever. And my previous posts on same. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • A Tale Of Two ISPs, (or… As You Don’t Like It Very Much)

    Short version… we moved. That might be enough information right there to explain my extended absence, the dead weblog, the missing newsletter, my MIA status on the Think Sideways boards. Long version… … we had an opportunity to get back to a place we missed, to our family, to our people, and the window on…

  • Did a freebie online writing workshop today. You can take the workshop.

    The workshop is Creating Characters With Character. My host is Cindy Rushton, and we did this live on the air, so it has the usual rough edges you get with a live workshop…but also the energy you get from someone pacing around the room talking and gesturing (that would be me—cannot sit still while I’m…

  • RebelTales.com is on its way to real

    If you’ve been following my writing diary for long, or if you’ve been with the Writing Updates for a while, you know about the fact that I’ve wanted to do an online fiction e-zine that would break out new writers, offer published writers a new venue, that would print absolutely kick-ass short, medium, and long…

  • Cat-Shaped Hole

    On Friday, February 13, 2009, at about 4:30pm, our cat Spenser died. We named Spenser not after the poet, but after Robert B. Parker’s best character, the detective Spenser. And he lived up to the name, and gave it an honor all his own. Spenser spent 13+ years of his life as a lean, energetic,…