This post is late. I usually write each piece a day or two before posting. I started this one on Friday, but then I totally lost track of the days. That’s right – essentially, three days went by without me realizing it. I could attribute it to living in this Covid-changed world, where the normal … Continue reading
Since we’re now a week out from the release of “Possession” (Detective Jimmy Delaney #8), it’s time to feature it on Fractured Fragment Friday. So, where did Jimmy come from? It started with an off-hand comment, someone wishing they could just plug a flash drive into their head and get the knowledge and skills they … Continue reading
This is one of those examples of LIVE BY DISCOVERY, DIE BY DISCOVERY. It’s probably my fault for being a PANTSER. I suspect that, if I REALLY wanted to be a different writer, I could change my modus operandi and do more planning, but then the creative experience would be totally different, and why would I write? Continue reading
Technology moves forward at an ever increasing pace, and it’s harder and harder for each generation to keep up. I had older relatives who grew up without dishwashers, and when they had their own, they rarely used it (except as a drying rack for what they hand-washed.) The challenges people have to go through trying … Continue reading
“Finding Sanctuary” just started with the idea of a human colony ship wandering through space in search of a home. Eventually they find one. But an alien planet suitable for life would of course have alien life, wouldn’t it? It would be nice to think they’d be welcoming, but…, well…, WE’D be the aliens then, … Continue reading
I think I know myself pretty well. I’m full of contradictions. I’m a PANTSER who sometimes tries foolishly to plan. I often criticize myself for being very light on detail when I write, and yet I had other writers tell me recently that they love my world-building. I’ve also been told that I’m a very polished (or posh) writer. Continue reading
You don’t prove you’re right by silencing the opposition. This has been tried throughout history, and does nothing but slow down progress. Sure, the people resisting truth to preserve their short-term self-interest may retain power for a little bit longer, but eventually it has to be admitted that Galileo was right, and that the Earth … Continue reading
I’m not quite sure how “Gladius” wound up where it ended – the original story was to have something to do with virtual reality and infectious ideas, but then the virtual coliseum shifted to being the actual reality, a place where various races had been taken as slaves by a master alien culture and forced … Continue reading
Lack of proper editing is very common out there. Even when I read authors who blog about writing and even stress the necessity of PAYING for professional editing seem to miss a lot of line-editing issues in their own published works. Continue reading
I view God as a thinking, reasoning, creative force – I think that’s what human’s are meant to be. That’s why we have minds to let us reason things out, and the FREE WILL to decide what we want to do with that knowledge. Continue reading
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