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This mid-month blog is usually only for my Patreon group, along with many of the things I do. Please feel free to join me there for more interaction with my characters. That would be the ones I write and the ones who are in my membership. Just click here Last post of the year is
Monthly Blog · Spec · Updates · Writing
How is it October? What happened to the year? It feels lost in all of the chaos of the world. Will it ever calm down? I feel like I’m on a freight train barreling down a mountain pass, at full speed and no breaks. I just can’t stand it. Feeling like you are holding onto […]
General Blog · Monthly Blog · Writing
If everything is unprecedented, nothing is.
General Blog · Note to Self · Rant · Writing
What are you good at, you have asked me today… I’m quite confident that I am good, if not excellent, at many things. People tell me that, and I know they are not just blowing smoke up my ass. Everyone has those few things at which they excel, even if that is just the perfection [
Monthly Blog · Learning · Writing
I want to tell you about a poignant death; it hit me hard this last month. A writer whom I admired. A writer
Monthly Blog · Updates · Writing
The year of the dragon is gone. It was my year, and boy did things fly high and fast. Power was brought back into my life. Drastic moves were made. My whole life changed yet again. Now we go into the year of the snake, it is time to come home to the ground to […]
This year I’m starting to explore KindleUnlimited. If you have unlimited please read Sitting Room. Also available: The first two books of the Spec in Time series. Curl up with a hot toddy and have a good read.
Monthly Blog · Spec · Writing
January 2025 2024 has been a year of totally unexpected, life-altering things for me. The challenges and the trust needed to just let the past go and move forward into the unknown have been huge. So much soul-searching has been filling my brain this year, it has been hard to over
Monthly Blog · Spec · Updates · Writing
Things, stuff, real life… They all make it difficult to work on words. When you have to get a new dishwasher and have to have service on your wash machine that may also need to be replaced, it all sucks. That is what my life has been like lately. But now, it is a long […]
Monthly Blog · Spec · Updates · Writing
I did something completely different this month. I wrote a quick short story. It took me longer to post it into the Kindle Vella program than it did to write it. Okay, not really but it sure did feel like it. I know nothing of this program, it seems like a good spot to put […]
January is done. Look out February! THE DOMES is now for sale! That’s one gigantic item checked off my list. YEP, book #2 has been freed into the world. I have struggled writing this month, it’s not that I’m doing nothing. My time has been used to get The Domes uploaded into all
The Domes is now available – It’s time to read about your favorite Freaks and Geeks again. Spec and her team have so much to do in such a short time. Phase two must be completed quickly before the earth’s scheduled maintenance. Are you as excited as I am? Wow. That was easy…Oka
Monthly Blog · Spec · Updates · Writing
The author expresses relief and joy at completing book two, “The Domes,” and plans for its release. Winter inspires more writing for another project, and a plea for peace in Ukraine.
General Blog · Spec · Updates · Writing
The layout is all done. The page numbers worked on the third try, can you believe that? I can’t. Page numbers last time was nearly a three night project. Now, did I have to change my header because of that… but it turned out much better anyways. Sometimes limitations are a good t
Learning · Rant · Spec · Writing
Okay, I have done my best to do NaNoWriMo this year. It’s not that I can’ t write enough on book three; even with being in the middle of editing book two. I’m almost done with that. I do want to finish it up soon. Maybe even in the next 4 days. That is over […]
The totally useless and not trustworthy word count: The Domes, Book #2 of A Spec in Time series The Domes is through its editing! The totally useless and not trustworthy word count: At this point is:?? Now: This is what you are missing: Patreon Page Inception, Book #3 of A Spec i
I truly believe that there is a part of every author, in every character they write. That seems true as for how I’ve built mine. Ultimately, I think we cannot create a being without creating ourselves. Physically or mentally. It’s not because we are that egotistical, though it’s
The Domes has now moved into the process of deep edits, and the proofing nazi. I need to say that I’m NOT, pulling my hair out this time. I am not concerned. It gets a little stressful because it is being done in small sections. Proofing during Harvesters was so stressful that I
Outside of one math problem, a glossary, edit suggestions, proofing, and lay out. The Domes, book two of the Spec in Time Series is done.
This whole month has felt like a knife stabbing into my side. I have had a lot of downs and very few ups. I feel like a lot went bad or as I call it: sideways. I feel as if I have done nothing in the pages of this book. I also know that to […]
Stage 1 (barfing) is done. Stage 2 (crafting) is well on its way… oh that’s the hard part. I have taken many of those rough sections of barf and have crafted them into much goodness. Subjects, raw thoughts, and ideas. Layouts of the important parts of the dialog have been expande
I don’t want to do life. No, that is not a cry for help. I have no time to jump off a bridge. I just don’t want to do anything but work on the story. I don’t want to clean, walk, eat, or see people. I want to be left alone. Yet there are jobs, […]
It’s done. April fools. The Domes – the second book of the Spec in Time series – is actually more done than I thought it would be at this point. All of that aforementioned puke of ideas and possible dialog is done. What is amazing is that I already have around 80% of that word […
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Why are we so very concerned with word count? Really, it is because no one wants to read War and Peace. This isn’t a rant against Tolstoy. I really liked Anna Karenina. I gave W&P a good go at it for about 10 years. I finally gave up after it had been moved to the […]
It is March. It was a crazy February for the next book. Domes got a huge amount added to it. At this point, all of the parts and pieces are in place. All the extra notes have been removed, along with the stuff I mistakenly put in twice. Then there were the sections that I […]
I got a review? I got a review! On Amazon, I got a review…on my book. Things are kinda happening. I have now sold more books than I thought I would. I forced both my friends to buy 2 books, I thought that would be the end of it. I must have more friends, because […]
I have a job for you… I need names. First Names, Last Names, Nick Names. English, French, Jewish, Palestinian, Russian, South African, Saudi, Icelandic, Uruguayan, Japanese… EVERYWHERE! From this planet or others. Any info on these names would amuse me as well. This is really the
Blog. Blog: Bllllooooooggg!!!!! “THEY” say. They say a lot of nothing. I don’t see they doing anything. If they really wanted me to blog, they would blog for me. Right? I hurt; I am tired; I don’t feel good. I want to write important things; Spec is very busy with the penguins ri
Words wash down over the smoothed rocks of the mind. Splashing onto the page that exists no more. Old idioms die hard. Tapped keys with a rubbery feel, keeping tea from where it does not belong. To the hard drive, to the cloud. The new basin, where the waterfall of the words resi
Well, it is done. Version 1.01 is available Saturday 12/3. I have a thing about the number 123. I am glad that I pulled it and redid the mistakes. The typos and hominins would have driven me crazy(er). I also learned so much during this regrouping process. I learned to let things
Just less than 7 yrs. That is how long it took to get the courage to get here. To settle into my characters, get to know them. Know what it is they needed to say, what their dreams are. 7 years to get the courage to write. To make the time in my busy life […]
I never really thought I would be here, but now I am. The precipice. Precipice: A high and vertical or steep rock face. Presumably, a place where one stands, looking out and down at what is to come. Usually used (in this country) to be a positive feeling of setting out on a new j
Writing is the easy part. I know how to get it started, then refine, and refine, and refine. The story has been there since day one. Sure there are things that change that come and go. Additions that pop into my head as I move through the story and think about cool new things. S