Writing Wednesday: About Rewriting…

So (yes, it’s a week later, and I’m still saying that.) I’m about to do something I’ve sworn for the last five years I would not do. When I say I first got SERIOUS about writing was when there was a confluence of frustration at how long it took me to finish a story, my … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Drumming Up Your Own Thoughts

Have you noticed how the news is? Something makes it onto the conversation, and it becomes the focus of what virtually everyone talks about.  News programs, talk shows, people around the water cooler, every tweet, no one can seem to break from the socially accepted topic. News cycles cycling thru only the prescribed subjects, and … Continue reading →

Selling Saturday: Smashwords Coupon for “Sasqwhat?” and Other Promotions

This week’s Smashwords coupon is for “Sasqwhat?”: It’s bad enough that people treated Ben like a freak – now he’s seen something bigger and hairier than he is hiding in the Arkansas woods, and he needs to find it to prove that he’s no crazier than anyone else. Sometimes you don’t know what you’re made … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: The Details Are the Devil

So. After discussing my difficulties with keeping my universes straight (well, with myself it’s discussing – with the rest of you reading the blog, it’s just one hand writing. There’s no discussion – unless, of course, you choose to comment, which would be welcome, BTW), I decided on a process (I always have to have … Continue reading →

“Burial Details” – Now Available On Preorder

My next ePublication will be the speculative short story “Burial Details”: Be sure to bury your charges deep. An old farmer, scraping by after the Sahrian invasion, buries his most precious treasures to hide them from the aliens’ “salvation”. When I first started writing this one, all I had in mind was the single line “They’re … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday About Fitting In with This Madness

March Madness has begun. It’s not particularly any madder than things usually are, just a good job of marketing that’s taken control of MADNESS and made it something to aspire to. I have to admit – other than a charity pool at work (where I picked my brackets using a complex methodology that included two … Continue reading →

Selling Saturday: Smashwords Coupon for “Riding the Devil” and Other Promotions

This week’s Smashwords coupon is for “Riding the Devil”: With his town running from one strange frontier to another as they elude their alien abductors, Aaron Walker is forced to risk all to save the town and fulfill his destiny. “Riding The Devil” is a science fiction / fantasy story with a western steampunk flavor, … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: Don’t Monkey with Your Goals

When I got SERIOUS about writing, I set myself goals. They have been largely effective, especially the “X number of stories this year” one. I failed that one in one year (through extenuating circumstance – read that as LIFE), and yet I still increased my output over the previous year. There is one goal that … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Malingering

In my wild, wacky world of Words with Friends (you know, that game that I was going to conscientiously prevent from becoming an addiction? Yeah, I can quit any time I want to…), my winning % is… around 85% or so. A few days ago, I had a disasterous day – lost three different games … Continue reading →

Selling Saturday: Smashwords Coupon for “Inheritance” and Other Promotions

This week’s Smashwords coupon is for “Inheritance”: When Amun discovers that his family is connected to power, wealth and infamy, he enlists a friend to help him get his share. But does he really want the ancient inheritance that’s coming to him? This is a sci-fi/fantasy short story in which I play around a little … Continue reading →