Are you a glass half full (optimist), or a glass half empty (pessimist)person? Or as George Carlin used to say, “The glass is too big” (complainer?) kind of person? Or maybe you’re a “The glass is half full of hemlock” one (a realist, perhaps?)? So much of life is ruled by how you choose to … Continue reading
I have a fondness for Groundhog Day – the movie where Bill Murray is a self-centered cynic forced to spend time in a small Pennsylvania town to do a news story about the traditional sighting of Puxatony Phil on Groundhog Day. Except he stays in the town for one day – and lives that same … Continue reading
Those who do not remember history (or the past) are doomed to repeat it. With my own shoddy memory, I have the advantage of not dwelling on things that have gone wrong, but I also don’t remember what to avoid and how I got out of the situation once in it the first time. Is … Continue reading
Goals watchlist: 3 blog posts. Stories cycled to market as soon as markets were available. “The Voices” eBook released on time last week. I made comments the requisite number of blogs (just barely.) I wrote a piddling 993 words on Herc Tom, Champion of the Empire #6 (yes, still with no title – I like to … Continue reading
Goals from last week: 3 blog posts. Stories cycled to market as soon as markets were available. ePublications are still on schedule, but I have a week-and-a-half to choose and prep my August 17th release. I finished reading the fourth book in Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series and have begun the fifth. I … Continue reading
No, this isn’t some distant future speculation for life and the universe – this is just Bill thinking of where he is now at the midpoint of 2018, and what he needs to do next. It looks like I’m on schedule to wrap up the latest revision of Swordsmaster this weekend. I’m taking notes on … Continue reading
It used to be that traditional fairytales were rather vicious (especially when told by those carefree Brothers Grimm) – through giants and wolves and other things eating people, and heads coming off people’s shoulders, or being poisoned or cursed by witches and the like, children were taught that the world could be a dark and … Continue reading
