Month: October 2017

  • New Article: Writing from a prompt

    New Article: Writing from a prompt

    Got a little sidetracked this morning. Had a 9th grader ask me if I had any suggestions about how to write from a prompt. Was a nice, literate email, and it asked about PROCESS, not if I could help with the actual homework. So I added a new article to the site: How to Write…

  • Oh. My. God. The wonder of a good writing day.

    Oh. My. God. The wonder of a good writing day.

    I was writing the battle scene in Longview 4: The Vipers’ Nest, and I thought things were getting a little away from me. And all of a sudden Herog had a revelation about the battle he was fighting that told me three things: How a tiny space station in an out-of-the-way corner of its galaxy…

  • Best Bug Contender: Midnight Rain Bug-Hunt

    Best Bug Contender: Midnight Rain Bug-Hunt

    There’s no actual prize for finding the “best bug” because a “best bug” in a manuscript is purely subjective. There would be no just, objective way to award a prize. But this is my favorite bug found so far, located by Midnight Rain Bug-Hunter Charlotte Lenox… Fart Lauderdale. The automated book scanning process did some…

  • Cthulhu LIVES (because someone put food in a pocket)

    Cthulhu LIVES (because someone put food in a pocket)

    So, yeah. Cthulhu is alive and well, after being really dead for a while. And partially it’s my fault, because I should have known better than to skin a Great Old One and turn him into yarn. Or try to do something useful with him. But, hey, you’d think a monster like that would knit…

  • EVERYONE gets my Patreon rewards this month… with NO sign-up

    EVERYONE gets my Patreon rewards this month… with NO sign-up

    I’m new to Patreon. I probably made an error setting up my rewards for the day after Patreon said it collected pledges, which is on the first of each month. It’s now the fourth of the month, and as far as I can tell, Patreon has not collected a single pledge from a single one…

  • Recommending an interview with Camille Paglia about Hugh Hefner

    Recommending an interview with Camille Paglia about Hugh Hefner

    Yes, the sun is now the moon, cows are spherical, and ice cream is a health food. I am recommending as relevant, interesting reading for both men and women (but especially women), an interview with a feminist. In the 1970 and VERY early eighties, I was a feminist. This was when feminism was supporting equal…