I woke up this morning from one of those dreams that seem to go on forever, where there were international spies and murders and I was a writer working on getting a lesson done on deadline, and for some reason, my lesson was interfering with the international spies, who’d sent someone to make me stop writing it. The lessons I’m … Continue reading →
Like other folks, lots of writers have pets. And while it had been a whole lot of years since I had pets, for Christmas my guys got me a cat. Sheldon. Very cool cat. Likes to help. Really likes to help with revision, which is generally not an area where I welcome help. Here. Let me show you… How about … Continue reading →
I’m back from two weeks of enforced R&R, recovering from another surgery on my tongue, and then waiting for biopsy results. I’ll tell you exactly what my doc told me. There was bad news, and there was really good news. The bad news was there was a large area of severe dysplasia at the back of my tongue. The good … Continue reading →
I have been doggedly trying to find out more about the Roman Republic (pre-Caesars, pre-decline, pre-depravity). It’s almost impossible. The Romans were a successful self-governing people with a working republic for five hundred years and change, but damn near every resource I can locate begins at the point where their corrupt senators handed over control to individual despots and everything … Continue reading →
The UPDATED updated front page is now…er…updated. Please take a look and let me know here how this works for you. … Continue reading →
I posted this as a response to a comment about office supplies and role-playing games in one of the “Write A Book With Me” posts. But I realized I’m curious. How many of you who write are or have also been role-playing gamers? (D&D, GURPS, another system…whatever. If you’ve sat in a room with friends talking your way through an … Continue reading →
You know how there are things about other people that you envy and wish you could emulate, but no matter how hard you try, you just never manage to pull it off? I had this image of me someday being a person who did not have to throw stacks of books into a locked bedroom and spare children under beds … Continue reading →
Closing on ten p.m., and I’ve had and enjoyed my weekend and a break from work. And, equally important, the story has had two days to sit on the hard drive while I did not think much about it. From time to time I’d get pings from my subconscious/ Right Brain/ muse, so I have ideas of what I need … Continue reading →
Down to the last scene. I’ve finished 5865 words, and I’m still trying to decide if the story is better served by having the villain live, or die. I hate him—I really, really hate him—and I want him to die. But I can nail some great plot points either way. That and the ending are left. Having already made myself … Continue reading →
1676 words to go. Heading into the climactic confrontation, where I have two good twists planned. Nila and Per (my handsome Swede) were in deep trouble, only from the looks of things, the trouble has all just shifted to Nila’s shoulders. This is such a blast. … Continue reading →
