Forecast Friday: Planetary Pravda

How hard is it to brainwash a society? Misinformation can be disinformation – the deliberate efforts of Pravda, or Orwell’s Ministry of Truth or other bad actors to keep their populations under control by preventing them from interacting with INCONVENIENT TRUTHS. Or it can simply be that people in the Soviet Union – and even … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: Things to Pay Attention To

Weekly goal status: Stories-to-Market rotation continues on schedule, as do my 3-per-week blogs. The preorder campaign for The First Three ‘Things I Could Get Out of My Mind’ is on. I haven’t created the paperback yet – it may not be available until after the release weekend (it takes a lot of time to format … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Native

Native is a funny word. When we talk about native speakers, we mean people who have been exposed to a language since close to birth and have spoken it since they could speak; it’s native to them. To expand a little further, native is something that’s with a person from their beginning – not something … Continue reading →

Forecast Friday: The Value of a Man

I remember when I was in my teens seeing a movie where clones were being grown as organ banks to prolong the lives of the original person they’d been cloned from. The clones were treated as sub-human, and it was even argued that they didn’t have souls. How could they? Mind you, We still don’t … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: As Good As It Gets

First to goals – three blog postings, recycling stories back to market are all on schedule. My next eBook is in the chute and since it’s a collection (see below) it’s on a preorder campaign until the April 7th. I still need to do the paperback version, but I wasn’t planning to include that in … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about My State of Mind

My wife and I do online surveys, and whenever they ask for demographic information, we like to clown around (to ourselves – we would NEVER answer any survey questions unseriously) (no, I really mean that.) When they ask what state we are in, we’ll joke and say CONFUSION, or DENIAL (but when we look through … Continue reading →

Forecast Friday: Dystopia, Anyone?

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! A holiday to celebrate the man who drove all the snakes from Ireland (he must have caught hell from the environmentalists of his time.) Today I just have a quick question about the future. What do you want out of yours? I believe most of us strive toward a better world, … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: How Can I Stay in the Story?

Last week was a decent week for accomplishments. Blog goals were met, “Some Kind of Luck” made its release date just in time. I had a couple more stories return and go back out to market. Heinlein would be pleased. Most importantly: “Breathing is Overrated” is finally out of my hair. I finished the first … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Rules and Game-Changers

America is a nation of laws – that’s been our basic value has been since our founding. The law is blind, and supposed to apply to everyone. The law in a gaming environment is the rules. These rules are agreed on before the game starts, and these are the rules you play by until the … Continue reading →

Sum-it-up Sunday: Russia, Reset, Rhetoric, Revisionism

Our recent history with Russia has been… confusing. The Dems have been best buds with them since… way back. Secretary Hillary presented them with a RESET button to symbolize a new beginning of understanding between our nations. Mitt Romney was criticized in the 2012 election for saying that the Russians were our most serious geopolitical … Continue reading →