Writing Wednesday: Revising “Baastards”

Last week’s goal rundown: Three blog postings – check! Submissions rotation – Victimless STILL needs a market, so I am not keeping up (if only my usual markets weren’t taking so long to reject my other stories, I would have someplace to send it.) My indie publishing schedule is still good (next release is June … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: Motivation, Metrics, and Me

(when will this 2016 postmortem end?) 2016 was a year of writing disappointment. As I’ve said over-and-over again, it would be easy to blame it all on the slab-leak, I’d rather not. I know I could have lessened the impact, and scapegoating wastes energy that could be used on course-correction. One of the things that … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Coming Out of the Fog

Around here, we’ve been having some actual fog lately (not at all unusual for Texas this time of year. I have lots of fond images of fog throughout my life – fond because I’ve never had anything bad happen to me due to fog. I have memories trekking across fog covered fields (or was it … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Resolutions and Holding onto Problems

At a company where I used to work in my youth, they would have monthly employee meetings, mostly designed to find out if there were any problems that needed to be brought to management’s attention. Eventually, they stopped holding these meetings due to an unintended and undesirable effect. You see, the staff would hold back … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: Slowly but Surely

(Well, maybe NOT so surely…) I DID manage to finish up “Cellfishness” (former working title “A Language of Their Own”) and sent it out to market (and heck – it even received its first rejection – sort of like when a ship is launched off with a broken champagne bottle – so festive.) I’m even … Continue reading →