When I was first informed that I would no longer have a DAY JOB, I was at a loss. With very few breaks, I’ve spent decades going into work and counting on my EARNINGS to pay the bills. That was a big part of the pattern of my life. I started to try to find … Continue reading
*** My apologies. This episode of Fractured Fragment FRIDAY is being delivered late on SATURDAY because the writer FORGOT to schedule it’s release in advance. Oh, the humanity! I have some personal idiosyncrasies, one of which is a fairly frequent sensation while driving that I am about to be in a collision with a red-light … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals All blog entries posted on schedule. All returned stories were sent back out to market. I failed to make my weekly and daily quotas – I wrote no fiction on any day last week. I had too much LIFE items to deal with to allow more writing than required to get my … Continue reading
I was watching The Good Doctor, and they got into a transplant conflict. Doctor Murphy was struggling to save a Patient A, while Doctor Parks was pushing him to give up so Patient B (who was dying) could have Patient A’s heart. An ethical dilemma, that was finally resolved when it became obvious that Murphy … Continue reading
The thought of an old farmer hiding children underground popped into my head, and I had to have a reason why (Oops! I guess that’s a spoiler…) In “Burial Details”, Earth is invaded by aliens intent on keeping the human population in check by removing those capable of reproduction. Here’s the Blurb Be sure to … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals All blog entries posted on schedule. All returned stories were sent back out to market. I failed to make my weekly quota with only 1185 words of fiction – this was in three days of writing, and I only made one of those days’ daily quotas. This was on a writing prompt … Continue reading
Yes, REALITY – what a concept… It is one I believe in – at least on the macro level. When we HUMANS are living our personal lives, we come up with all sorts of almost OCD rituals to help us navigate all the inputs we have to deal with coming at us from the universe … Continue reading
Today is the release day for “Too Much of a Good Thing” – the ninth in the Detective Jimmy Delaney series. It’s a soft-boiled detective novella with some sci-fi and fantasy elements, sort of a The Rockford Files meets The Avengers (the old BBC series, not the Marvel superheroes.) Here’s the Blurb Was it … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals My three blog entries posted as scheduled. Rotating my stories back out to market as fast as I can. I failed to make my weekly quota once more – only 785 words of fiction. I finished my reacquaintance revision of Swordsmaster: Deception. I wrote six days, but didn’t make my daily quota … Continue reading
I’m tired of not seeing people. All I see is masks. I went into a retail store recently. There were about a half dozen sales girls there to help out customers, and it was one of those times when I needed help (No – not the kind of help MY SIGNIFICANT ONE says I need … Continue reading
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