Category: Slightly Loony

  • Mwah-ha-ha-ha-HA! Evil is afoot, and fun is right on its tail!

    Mwah-ha-ha-ha-HA! Evil is afoot, and fun is right on its tail!

    Boy, today did not go where I thought it would. Not at ALL. In the back of my mind, I had this fun little scene planned, and when I popped out of the shower, I knew pretty much where I was going to start. And I did start there — but absolutely none of the…

  • Readers, Writers, and Affiliates: Meet the Guardian of the World-Rift Forest

    Readers, Writers, and Affiliates: Meet the Guardian of the World-Rift Forest

    My Choose-Your-Own-Adventure email game has gone live! You can play the game now if you’re already a list member, or restart at ANY time (using your same email) by joining the adventure at the bottom of any page on this site… Or if you don’t see the Adventure sign-up on your browser, you can join…

  • This Morning I Caught My Brain Doing Something WEIRD!

    This Morning I Caught My Brain Doing Something WEIRD!

    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…

  • Yes, It’s Revision… But Is It DELICIOUS?

    Yes, It’s Revision… But Is It DELICIOUS?

    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…

  • And now I’m fifty-five. Life, health, and…yes, Destiny

    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…

  • Why I love history: Ancient Roman Dick Jokes

    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…

  • I’m trying again…[fingers crossed]

    The UPDATED updated front page is now…er…updated. Please take a look and let me know here how this works for you.

  • Totally Off Topic: Writers Who Role Play

    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…

  • Three Months Later—The Biggest Mystery of My Life, Solved

    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…

  • Finishing Thorsday Night: Starting In

    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…