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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Popular Posts 2024

    Someone else had the idea for this blog. Thanks for the inspiration. They reasoned that I did so much writing that my writing deserved its own blog. I didn’t doubt that I’d find something to write about writing. I write. It works that way. Looking at the top ten posts from 2024 points out that…

  • My Gift Guide For Writers – 2024

    Isn’t the guide for gifts for writers to give simply the books they’ve already written? Gotta get rid of that excess inventory somehow. I’m thinking more about gifts for writers to get. Yes, this is slightly early for such a list, but a few days ago, I was rummaging around through my office supplies as…

  • Fire Race – The Ebook

    Coping and hoping? Doesn’t that describe what every character is doing in a novel? Fire Race, the second book in my science fiction series (Exodus/Genesis), obviously describes how a bunch of humans (who are actually aliens because they’re on a different planet, AintEarth) and a bunch of aliens (who are the current residents of the…

  • Fire Race Launched

    Be cool, dude. You’ve done this before. You have a new book. Wrong punctuation. Make it more personal, because it is.  I have a new book! Fire Race, the sequel to my scifi novel, Firewatcher is launched! It’s available on Amazon, and has been for days. As of less than an hour ago, as I…

  • Almost A Week Off

    Almost A Week Off It’s been a week. Fire Race was officially published last week. I’m done! Ha. I’ve mentioned before that this begins the never-finished phase of writing a book: telling everyone about it. But not yet. I’ve been mentioning it every day online, but that only takes about ten minutes. There’s a lot…

  • Who Is A Writer

    Who Is A Writer Here I sit, crumbled as I type from my car’s driver’s seat while I scarf a wi-fi signal from a public library on a Sunday. And, I write. Does that make me a writer, or a contortionist, or both, or neither? It makes me someone who wanted to write about writing,…

  • Celebrating A Fourth Draft

    How am I going to celebrate? It is the day before Fireworks Day in the US (for good or not or debate), but the celebration I seek is for completing the fourth draft of the sequel to my first science fiction novel, Firewatcher. Just look at that sentence. Modifiers everywhere. A person, or even a…

  • 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.…