1) “Finished” the first draft of the short story I’ve been working on for the last week or so. I think it’s going to be good before it’s all said and done. 2) Another 20,000+ step day. I’ve been over 20K every day but one this year, and averaging probably 24K or so. 3) Cards […]
Read More ...Writing Romance Like Myke
Myke Cole, who used to wander by my pages back in the day before he became a big wig author [grin], just posted about an exercise he ran where he wrote a romance scene and submitted it to a contest wherein readers were asked to guess the gender of the writer. Myke writes hard, military […]
Read More ...The Latest Big Lie
So word comes now that All-American boy, Tour de France icon, and cancer survivor is now considering whether to admit to doping. This is, of course, pretty much akin to a husband thinking about possibly admitting to an affair–sometime after the judge signs off on the divorce papers. So, after years and years of such […]
Read More ...Wherein the Dominoes Fall Into Place
I’ve been working on a short story for the past several days with only limited success. I liked the start and the characters were there, but the story wasn’t crisp for me. So I found myself spending lots of time going back over what I had already written, starting over, mushing the story one way […]
Read More ...Immortal ConFusion Schedule
A few days back I slipped this news into another post, but here it is in a place of its own–if you’re in the Detroit area the weekend of January 18-20th you can find me (and a whole bunch of better-known folk) at Immortal ConFusion. Should be great fun. Should be even more fun because […]
Read More ...FIts and Starts
I’ve been working on a short story for several days, and not getting very far. I stepped back and started over with a different idea this morning, and things seem to be flowing quite well. I managed to complete considerably over a thousand words completed, and found a pair of characters who seem pretty interesting. […]
Read More ...Avoiding Negative Results of Personal Behavior?
I always enjoy things that examine how people think about things, especially when it’s accompanied by a bit of modern brain science. I grabbed this article on optimisim bias off Kris Rusch’s Twitter stream. In particular, I wonder how far this goes toward covering why people do things that are so obviously bad for them. […]
Read More ...One Cliff, Side-Stepped
Am I a total seerer, or what? In early December I had a brief Facebook conversation with a friend who bemoaned the political shenanigans of the fiscal cliff. I said not to sweat it, that the best thing to do was to go away and check back at the end of the year to find […]
Read More ...Resolutions
I’ve been thinking about the coming year, and trying to come up with some good resolutions. It seems like resolutions should be made. Really, it does, doesn’t it? I can think of a lot of things I could or should make resolutions about–things like working on being a better person, being a better husband and […]
Read More ...2012’s Top Ten Typosphere Posts
So, you ask, just which of my golden-tongued posts this past year have drawn the most attention? I took a spin through the logs last night, and gathered the answer. #1 – People Are Strange: A fun little discussion about the way people’s actions don’t match their words, and visa versa. It touches on wine […]
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