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  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Amazon Sales Rank – Jan 17 2024

    Don’t worry. I’m not going to delve too deep, or pretend this is much of a thing; but, it is handy for this author to track his books’ Sales Ranks as per Amazon.com. I sold a book today. Yay? Many authors can claim that they sell a book an hour. Some may never sell a…