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  • 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…

  • 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…