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  • Sharing Posts To Social Media – April 2025

    (PS This is a test of some changes – they call them improvements – to WordPress’ process. Pardon any subsequent glitches.) Someday I may have a FAQ, a Frequently Asked Questions list. I’m over 65. There are plenty of topics that inspire plenty of questions, and there have been enough decades involved to give some…

  • Muddling By – Second Draft Finished

    “Ah.” And you can quote me on that. Today, April 16, 2025, I finished the second draft of my next book. Let me scroll back to see what I called it last time. Muddling By, a working title. Also known as “From Middle Class to Millionaire to (mostly) Muddling By” or “A Rollercoaster Ride Through…

  • Care

    Care. Care what you write about. I care about writing this, and I won’t apologize to everyone who doesn’t care I wrote it. Writing about what you care about seems so simple. Why else write? (Unless you’re getting paid and you need the money.) But also be careful. It is April 2025. I do not…

  • Muddling By – Second Draft Begun

    I almost titled this post Justifiably Reprimanded, but that can apply to anything. More correctly (Almost) Justifiably Reprimanded was possible, but too many syllables. I’ve started working on the second draft of Muddling By, which partly explains my recent delay in posting. A reader justifiably reprimanded me for not keeping everyone informed about the book’s…

  • Books – Old Official New

    Some days are simply writers days. The title of the post may be overly concise, but including everything from today would be very wordy.How about, ‘An Old Book An Official Book The Next Book‘?Skip the suspense. Today, I got another new copy of my book about tea tales, Kettle Pot Cup; and got an official…

  • A Writers Vacation

    Pause Beethoven, or at least someone playing his music. It is time to write, and for this post, to write about writing. As I mentioned in a recent post (Defiance) on my oldest blog, “I expected to take a few days to write for my self, writing about things that are so personal that I…

  • 18,000 Words

    More than 18,000 words into my next book, and where do I go next? I feel as if I’ve pushed myself out from shore, the city shrinking as my boat heads out into the choppy waters of writing, and I’m wondering whether to put up sail, get out the oars, float with the currents, fire…

  • Amazon Author Page And Central

    (written while tired. my apology, but intuition suggested I publish it soonest.) I pass this along because it is cheap and relatively easy. Amazon has two websites that I use: Amazon Author page and Amazon Author Central. Note: I use them. They are useful, but not very useful. But they are free and informative. And…

  • First Draft Voice

    Every book has a voice, at least from my perspective. I’m working on the sequel to Dream. Invest. Live. (From Middle Class to Millionaire to (Mostly Muddling By, which is becoming A Rollercoaster Ride Through America’s Wealth Classes because it is sorta shorter.) But something didn’t feel right. Now, it feels better because I found…

  • Social Media Ah And Ugh

    There are so many that I can’t keep up. Social media: free (usually), powerful (but not reliably), simple (at least that’s what the brochure claims), essential (mostly yes, but not entirely.) I should probably start a FAQ list. One of the top three would be “How do you market your work?” Step 1: I congratulate…

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