Writing Updates I spent the July 4th weekend at a remote cabin in a mountain valley here in Colorado. Over the course of the long weekend, I managed to add a little more than 10,000 words to Hammer of Vindication. I'm to the point where I only need to write [...]
This is a piece I wrote for a non-fiction anthology regarding phobias and related mental issues. The rights have reverted back to me, and I'm now sharing the story here on my site on the anniversary of the events that changed my life forever. Thirty-one years now separate me from [...]
Here goes! 2016 Recap What a year. I'm keeping this about me (my blog, after all), not politics, celebrity losses, crazy out in the world, or anything else. Just the highlights, though. I'm sure I'm leaving out some stuff here, but I'm just hitting the high points here.... January: Started [...]
I received an email from my publisher, WordFire Press, on October 25th asking for the "current final manuscript" of Griffin's Feather. They'd assigned an editor to the project, and were ready to move forward with the publishing process. Instead of being elated or excited, my main emotion was nerves. Loads [...]
There have been a great number of studies in the creative mind and how it relates to mood instability, erratic behavior, and general mental disorders. This is not such a study. Everything here is anecdotal from a personal standpoint, not scientific. Keep that in mind as you peruse my words. [...]
"Challenger flight 51-l crew" by NASA - NASA Human Space Flight Gallery. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Challenger_flight_51-l_crew.jpg#/media/File:Challenger_flight_51-l_crew.jpg Wow. 30 years. I was 12. One of Challenger's SRBs burned a hole in the EFT and it exploded. This forced the space shuttle to disintegrate under sheer [...]
When I was a manager at a past Day Job, we had to take a 2.3 million hours worth of classes on "how to manage" and related topics. 99.99999% of the classes were absolutely worthless to me in my daily life, the Day Job, every job I've had since, and [...]
For the first time in my life, I'm looking forward to Christmas. In my previous 40+ years of having Christmas happen to me, I think I'm ready to celebrate it this year. Here's why: I'm the child of divorced parents. I don't have any memories of my parents being married. I [...]
I good friend of mine works in a variety of capacities for a literary agent. One of the many hats she wears is that of a slush reader for the incoming queries. She shares inspirational (and warning) tidbits on Facebook from the slush pile without identifying the author that sent the [...]
Chuck Wending posted a flash fiction challenge here. I've taken up the challenge. Here goes my (up to) 1000 words: This requires quite a bit of introspection on my part. I started writing when I was ten years old. I walked away. I picked it back up when I was [...]
