Last Week’s Goals All three of my blog posts went up on time last week. Two stories returned from market and were sent back out. Neither of my candidates for indie publication have returned yet. I will indie-publish when one does. I wrote on five days, and made my daily quota on two of them. … Continue reading
A while back, our writing group had a guest speaker (GS) who advised us on our visibility as writers. There are tons of writers out there, especially with eBooks and indie-publishing. It isn’t enough to tell people what genre you write in, there are sub-genres, and sub-sub-genres ad infinitum. A reader may like fantasy, but … Continue reading
Too many thoughts running through my head today, too many troubling things. Yet, when I try to wrestle one of them onto the page, there is nothing there to get a hold of, as though all there is in the windmills of my mind is empty air. So today I will be meandering by myself. … Continue reading
I believe we were put in this life by a CREATOR. I don’t think He is constantly, actively involved in our world, or our individual lives (I’m not going to waste my time making sure I use equal references of HE/SHE/IT. There was a time when we could simply say HE whenever the gender of … Continue reading
Something I’ve been big on for quite some time is understanding how unique each of us is. In the workplace, there’s a tendency to think of individuals as widgets. This person is an accountant. This one is a COBOL programmer. That one over there is a roll former operator. A truck driver. A cashier. Every … Continue reading
My memory has never been good. Well, maybe that’s not the right description. I could remember things fine, given enough time. When I was in grade school and junior high, we still had these things called film strips in classes. During some lessons, the teacher would bring in a film projector, darken the room and … Continue reading
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
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 write fiction. I am often asked (even by myself) where these ideas and characters come from. We are all different – what goes on in our minds, what we decide to let out. Each of us exerts a certain amount of control over our unbidden thoughts. Some people don’t have any (or are totally … Continue reading
A suitable topic for a Meandering Monday – the whole point of meandering is to ALLOW myself to be sidetracked. Funny thing is, I tend to start in a direction and keep going that way because part of me (that INFERNAL EDITOR™ I mention- the non-creative side of the brain) tells me that a blog … Continue reading
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