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  • Finding Topics

    Listen to yourself. I’ll start by listening to me. What am I going to write about? It has been a couple of weeks since I posted to this blog. What should I write about? Enough stuff has been going on. I have plenty to write about for my main blog, which is about personal finance.…

  • Writing As Refuge

    Writing As Refuge Pardon the yawn. Also, pardon the delay since the last time I posted. Life always seems to be busy, but this episode in my life has spiked the activity level – until about now. The yawn helps prove that. I recently moved from a small house with a view on an island…

  • Firewatcher – The Revised Edition

    Note: My apologies. Amazon temporarily paused it. As if life wasn’t crazy enough,… In the midst of moving from my sweet home on Whidbey Island to a sweet tiny house in Port Townsend (from one art community to another – aka MyTinyExperiment.com), I tripped over a deadline.  New and improved, Firewatcher, my first sci-fi novel has been re-released. Now, with…

  • A New Gig – Island Roots Housing

    Well that was unexpected. Unsolicited opportunities happen. As soon as I sign the contract (expected soon), I will be an Social Media Manager / Information Manager / Content Creator / Writer for Island Roots Housing, a non-profit that “…advances affordable housing choices to meet a diversity of needs in Island County.” How’d that happen? Networking…

  • Screenplay Draft – Second Celebration – March 2024

    Whew. That didn’t turn out the way I expected. It turned out better. As regular readers of this irregular blog may remember, I am working on a screenplay, too. Usually in the evening, I take the first draft, attempt to apply the lessons I learned from decades of writing and a quick read of the…

  • Writing Flashback Repost From September 2020

    I came across this old post by searching for a file about a different topic, while I was trying to find something else, so I could get something else done. Isn’t that normal for a creative person? It is a look into my writing process from when I’d just begun the main manuscript for what…

  • Screenplay Draft – Again – February 2024

    It’s getting drafty in here, literally and figuratively – and literary-ly-ish. My house is drafty. It’s sixty years old. I’m 65. I can feel its age. I’m feeling like I’m entering a new era in my age, too old to hire but too poor to retire. And, I’ve finished the third draft of the sequel…

  • Old Books Live

    It’s not dead yet! Don’t give up on books you wrote years ago. One of my popular books is selling again. There was a hiatus, but Walking Drinking Thinking Across Scotland is selling with almost no effort from me. Thanks. Writers can make up (or rephrase) stories that become books. Authors are writers who’ve written…

  • A Draft Is Done Again 021024

    Not necessarily a literary post, but I’ve decided to chronicle my process, somewhat. Tonight I finished the third draft of the sequel to Firewatcher. As I posted on social media (@tetrimbath); Quick note as a way to celebrate progress: Third draft (of the sequel to Firewatcher) done. Got onto a bit of a roll.Backed up…

  • To Play With Scammers Or Not

    OK. Officially, do not play with phone scammers. The US government says so. You may not be surprised that I do not always do what I am supposed to do, or not supposed to do. As a self-published author, I receive frequent spam and probably scam calls. I actually answer them, partly because I have…

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