Writing Wednesday: Methods and Madness

All writers have their own methods. I was reading Sarah Hoyt’s blog recently, and she used a term I haven’t heard before:  GATEWAY WRITERS (“ie., the gateway-in-the-head opens and …pours out, you aren’t entirely in control of the elements…”) As far as I can determine, Sarah coined this expression herself; thank you, Sarah, for giving … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Resolutions and Holding onto Problems

At a company where I used to work in my youth, they would have monthly employee meetings, mostly designed to find out if there were any problems that needed to be brought to management’s attention. Eventually, they stopped holding these meetings due to an unintended and undesirable effect. You see, the staff would hold back … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: Slowly but Surely

(Well, maybe NOT so surely…) I DID manage to finish up “Cellfishness” (former working title “A Language of Their Own”) and sent it out to market (and heck – it even received its first rejection – sort of like when a ship is launched off with a broken champagne bottle – so festive.) I’m even … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about… Uncertain Meandering

It hasn’t just been Mondays – this has been a meandering year. I mentioned this to my current manager at my DAY JOB (that’s the one most of us writers have that actually pays the bills while we’re trying to become independently wealthy with our writing.) At that place we’ve had all sorts of upheaval … Continue reading →

Some More, And Yet Still Even More Things I Could Get OUT OF MY MIND Release Weekend is Here!

(Heck – it’s almost over) Aren’t the Holidays wonderful! So many things going on, I completely forgot to announce that this is the release weekend for collection #8 (let’s face it, it’s not just the Holidays; when will I get back on track?) Some More, And Yet Still Even More Things I Could Get OUT … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: Diversity Quotas

This is something that has been particularly irritating to me for years. It is particularly noticeable in our television and movies. I’m watching a show – in a couple of recent cases, shows that I’ve been watching for years – and suddenly a gay theme develops – characters that you had no reason to believe … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about the Undead

I am NOT a member of one of the zombie generations; in my day, the undead of choice were vampires. Not the silly, sparkly ones in the fairly recent teen angst versions, but the pale, sophisticated, highly educated vampires of the Bela Lugosi / Louis Jordan / Gary Oldman mold (even the Jack Palance vampire, … Continue reading →

Sum-it-up Sunday: Competence, Copouts, Constitution

News of the chaos of the Trump Transition has been greatly exaggerated – by the same people who told us how badly he was going to lose to Hillary. Trump has now surpassed the appointments the White House’s current occupier had made at this point. He is also dominating the news cycle, and even getting a … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: Goals and Habits

When I was knocked off track by our slab leak this year, the first thing I tried to maintain was my blogging; I had an established schedule, and it was something I could do just about anywhere/time (as opposed to writing short fiction, or, heaven help me, trying to work on the Swordsmaster revision.) The … Continue reading →