Writing Wednesday: The Problems with Talking (and Thinking) Too Much

Last week’s goals: I posted my own blog on schedule, and finally managed to meet and exceed my pitiful three-comments-on-someone-else’s-blog goal. I’m still waiting for one or more of my six available stories to come back from market so I can kick them back out there again. Reading this, it may seem a bit pessimistic … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: Looking (Fondly?) Back at What Was

Last week’s goals: Made my three blog postings AND my obligatory comments on the blogs of others (just barely.) I finished reading Ann Leckie’s The Raven Tower (I really enjoyed this one – maybe I should start doing reviews. First fantasy I’ve read in a while that WASN’T part of a series…) and began Terry … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Greener Grass

Jealousy and envy are human nature – it’s why the Bible has prohibitions against them (any religion worth its salt should be pushing its adherents to be better than the animals – to hold us to a higher standard – instead of patting us on the back and telling us we’re perfect.) It isn’t amazing … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about the Reality of Perception

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 →

Meandering Monday about Groundhog Day

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 →

Meandering Monday about Doomed Repetition

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 →

Writing Wednesday: The Devil with the Details

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 →