Okay. Coming up on six months since I stepped away from “Good Bones” to give it a rest, and yesterday, I opened the draft folder to look it over. I’m still rereading it, and see a lot of places that need improvement, and think I know the way forward on […]
Welcome. Enter freely and of your own volition. This is, as should be somewhat obvious, a fairly new website and many things are still be unpacked and arranged. I have decided to consolidate my various writing blogs and websites under this headspace. To that end, I have imported some of […]
For the curious, this is a large part of the genealogy website rebuild that I’m doing for the next week or so. I typically use Family Tree Maker 2019 for my main research; along with the applications for MyHeritage and Legacy 8 (I’m several versions behind on this one, but […]
Over on Facebook, Samuel R. Delany, answering a question in a post, offered the best and most succinct writing advice anyone has ever codified. Here, in its entirety, it is: (Read the rest at Flogging Babel)
I’m listening to Tracy Chapman sing her song “Behind the Doors, and remembering a time in my life when I was the one who heard the screaming …
http://www.sfwa.org/other-resources/for-authors/writer-beware/agents/?fbclid=IwAR2q0Snl2-Y-qKplTMfDnjrS-E6sEdCIRuGfYqrTrDH20sfxSKwi9RIwTeg The article linked above was mentioned elsewhere by a friend. It’s well worth reading.
Block. Muse. No block. Tide, flow – ebb. Art: Create, Write. Work. Hobby. Eat, breathe. Career. Get a job Feed your art. Live. Enjoy. Love. Above all – create. The last day of the Writers’ Weekend at Coppertoppe, I jotted down the above free-verse. It’s sort of a brief summary […]
As noted on Zig Zag Claybourne’s website:“In grown-folks land, “It’s Turning Purple, I Think We Should Quit” was the subject of a riotous podcast discussion by the good folks at Gotham Lights Podcast. Listen here. NSFW but, seriously, when has that ever stopped you?” I found this to be an extremely funny book, I read […]
At a recent writers’ workshop that I attended, there was a brief discussion on reading reviews. Some did, some didn’t; a very few read every review, regardless. One person commented on a “One Star” review that they had committed to memory. That review said, “I finished it, but I don’t know […]