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  • Muddling By – Sixth Draft Finished

    Is it finished? Let me close my eyes for a few moments while I decide – and hopefully not fall asleep. (snork) Huh? Oh yeah. I guess it is done -for specific definitions of ‘it’ and ‘done’. I now, grudgingly, concede that the sixth draft of Muddling By is complete! For specific definitions of ‘complete’.…

  • Whidbey Island Comicon – 2025 – After

    Hey! They asked me back! Er. They asked for me back. Hmm. They asked me to return. ‘They’ were the organizers of last year’s Galaxy Edge event where I was a panelist because I was local, and a writer of science fiction. (Firewatcher, Fire Race) This year, a name change for them. For me, it’s…

  • Whidbey Island Comicon – 2025

    The quick post to social media: Back for my third year as a guest speaker at theWhidbey Island Comicon – this weekend ! (July 18-20).Cool.See you there.(Details to follow, as time allows, eh?)address: 390 NE Midway Blvd, Oak Harbor, WAhttps://www.whidbeyislandcomicon.org/ The longer post: What? Whoa! Yay! Eep! I just got the word that the event…

  • Muddling By – Fifth Draft Finished

    A fifth draft? Whew. And done soon. The fourth draft was done less than a month ago. Ready to publish, right? Not right. But progress is being made. The fifth draft of Muddling By is done. And yet, what I intended to do isn’t done. Every draft hopefully pulls a manuscript one bit closer to…

  • Renting Table Time

    Let us give thanks for coffeeshops, tea houses, and open spaces that have wi-fi, characters, and someone else to keep the place clean. There may be a few caveats, however. Writers can write anywhere. Right? Yes. No. Sort of. Where are you going to write? Costs? Details Enough of lists and logic. If you’re going…

  • Being A B Writer

    I wonder what grade Grammarly will give this post, probably a B. That’s good enough for me. What’s good enough for you? Every collaboration involves a negotiation about what is good enough. Are we aiming for perfection, or even expecting it? Or, are we trying to shove something out before a deadline, or so we…

  • When A Sale Is A Donation

    Donation donated. That’s satisfying, and also never enough. I sold a book! That’s not grand news, but a specific book sold in a specific way that meant I donated the proceeds to a charity. That’s the satisfying part. Understanding the need is why I also know it barely helps, yet I do it anyway. I…

  • Cover Art Prep

    What to do in the gap between finishing the third draft of Muddling By (working title) and the fourth draft? Take a vacation, right? Ha! I did set aside the writing, but my brain popped up creating the book cover. As if there wasn’t enough to do writing the book. Years ago, I heard some…

  • Muddling By – Third Draft Finished

    “Celebrate good times, come on!“Hmm. Maybe that’s overstating the case. Lose the “come on” and the exclamation point, but keep the essence.“Celebrate good times.“The introverted part of my nature is more satisfied with that.I finished the third draft of Muddling By (working title). Whew. Little yay. Pardon me as I plagiarize my email to some…

  • Write It Down – Now

    Drat!, or was it Rats!? I had a great opening line for this post and got distracted before I could write it down. What was it? I know it was about why I always carry paper and something to write on, but I said it better than that. Rats. No joke; I think the most…