This has been an incredibly busy month--and I feel as slapped around as anyone else by our current events. There have been far more days tha...

Damn, I wish I were done transcribing. Perhaps I can be forgiven for my delays of something I started in, you know, the first Trump administ...

I have a lot to say, but it deserves more time than I can give on a Sunday with my sister.  Though I can manage: thank god Assad is gone. Le...

What, that's not the most important thing today? I finished drafting my twelfth installment. 24,368 words, for a total of 316,005 words....

And let's take our victories where we can. Every single one of them feels hard won. I just finished drafting installment eleven (11) of ...

The good news first. I finished transcribing Evil Hides in Darkness, the tenth (!) installment of my saga. It clocked in at 15981 words, whi...

This has turned into one of those mornings. On the way home from getting my sons some ice cream and coffee (as well as some actual groceries...

I just finished transcribing the ninth installment of my saga. I am now up to 206,095 words, and I actually do feel a sense of accomplishmen...

The recommended method for eating an elephant, it turns out, is the best way to get other projects done. I want to call 1000 people this ele...

The book I alluded to this week that got me editing my to-be-read list and contemplating how well I can predict my future desires based on m...

Hey, that actually sounds like progress, right? Just finished transcribing the seventh installment of my saga. We are now at 167, 915 words....

A brief update: I finished drafting the sixth installment of my saga yesterday. I'm not at the halfway point, but the character is more ...

Yeah, I know, I've got a bunch of lists. And yeah, I know, it's not healthy to get caught up goals, because everything is ephemeral,...

Happy 2024! I've been silent for the last few months because there have been things going on of a legal nature that I need to keep quiet...

No, really, though I don't blame you if you don't believe me. I have been working on drafting this speculative fiction project since...

A couple of health setbacks in the last month were exhausting enough that I decided to, you know, listen to my body and take it easy. (I hat...

If my last post sounds a little bitter, it’s because I came to the realization a few days ago that I needed to pause the writing project I’v...

And we're back! Yesterday my fellow authors and I talked about what goes into our work: the writing, the revising, and the editing. But ...

As you may know from reading this blog, I tend to stay away from traditional "writerly" topics because I know most readers don...