Forecast Friday: Yes, There Will Be Changes

The only thing we can be sure about in the future is that it will bring changes. Race relations and the criterion of our bigotry will change. I just finished reading Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, in which it was commented that the moon’s citizens were puzzled by Earth-dwellers’ obsession with race or … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: What About Empathy?

Goals, goals, goals… Again, three blog postings last week. My ePublishing remains on track with the release of Just Some More, And Yet Still Even More Things I Could Get OUT OF MY MIND.  Next release data is October 20th. I’m enjoying Pratchett’s Guards! Guards! – it has me laughing out loud, and it will … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Patterning Manners

I just discovered Stranger Things on Netflix. First off, I will admit that I’m planning to watch the whole thing – at least unless or until it goes off the rails from seeming to have logic behind it as it does now (Season 1 episode 8 so far), to the strange feeling of disrespecting the … Continue reading →

Selling Saturday (early edition): Release Weekend for Just Some More, And Yet Still Even More Things I Could Get Out of My Mind

The preorder campaign is over for Just Some More, And Yet Still Even More Things I Could Get Out of My Mind ; the collection includes the following short stories: “The Collective is All” – At least that’s what Abbe’s been told, but events lead him to wonder if there might just be some intelligent … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: Polymorphic Stories

Last week’s goal stats: Three blog posts. Still rotating stories back out to market in the new 10-day schedule, but I just had six stories returned last week, so it’s going to take some juggling to figure out where to send each one next (various markets don’t like you to send another story to their … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Accepting Where You Are

I don’t handle change well. I tend to set certain expectations about what is going to happen in the course of a day, and when something happens to alter my plans (an unexpected emergency, or something as simple as the fact that other people have a say in my life), I get a bit snitty … Continue reading →

Forecast Friday: When Will We Change?

How does evolution happen? Simplistically: Small (usually) changes occur in a species. If the change is an advantage in the environment the species inhabits, that mutation thrives and becomes dominant. Let’s say you live in the mountains – changes that let you survive on less oxygen, or handle the cold better, mean that these traits … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: It’s Not All Fun

Goals report for last week: Rotations to market continue – still a little hard to juggle the eleven stories I have out there with the markets I have available to me, but the ten-day deadline between return and resubmission is working. ePublications every 4 weeks still on schedule. Three blog posts logged. Still need to … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about the Shortness of Memory

9-11-2001. Every time this anniversary rolls around, it seems more and more unreal that it happened. But it did. I remember I’d gone into work early, and someone said a plane had crashed in New York, and sitting at my desk checking the news online. Getting home to my family and spending the day in … Continue reading →

Selling Saturday: Preorder Campaign Begins for “Just Some More, And Yet Still Even More Things I Could Get OUT OF MY MIND”

That sure is a mouthful, isn’t it? When I started putting together short-story collections, the first one was Things I Could Get OUT OF MY MIND, and adding another word to the title for each new volume seemed a fun and natural thing to do. Maybe I didn’t understand HOW MANY stories I was going … Continue reading →