A couple years back now (because time does fly) Brigid gave me a stack of old back-issue SF magazines. I love these things. It’s always fun to read fiction from some time back. Some of it is dated, of course. In fact, a lot of it, really. Science Fiction moves on both culturally and, well, […]

Many of you know that we lost my dad earlier this year, and that the process of dealing with the aftereffects has taken a lot of my energy the past six months. Such is life in the modern age. With some luck that process is coming toward its end, though. And there’s been a little […]

If you’ve followed along, you know I’ve been chatting about Heinlein’s Rules. They are good, and important, and everything else you can say about them. They are also a little dated in that they presume the existence of an editor, but we can sidestep that a bit. Or, at least I sidestepped them a bit […]

Yes, I missed a day. Such are the weird bits of life, right? But here I am today, ready to dig into the fourth of Heinlein’s rules—a process I’ve been going through expressly to question why it’s always rule #3 (“don’t rewrite”) that gets all the angst from most writers. Specifically, back when I read […]

So here I am, at the third of Heinlein’s rules. I did the first rule a few days back, and the second yesterday. As I noted yesterday, the original premise that got me going had to do with the idea that the controversy surrounding these rules is often placed (or always placed) in the wrong […]

For reasons that I noted in yesterday’s post, I’ve found myself writing a mini-series about Heinlein’s rules. The original premise that got me going had to do with the idea that the controversy surrounding these rules is often placed (or always placed) in the wrong area. By that I mean writers gnash their teeth over […]

Yesterday I saw Dean Wesley Smith wrote about Heinlein’s rules again. This is a fairly normal thing for him. It’s kind of his shtick, for the lack of a better term. He’s known as a proponent of fast writing, and limited editing. At least that’s the rep, you know? That’s all good. I’ve been a […]

Getting excited for the launch of Outfield Magicked, book 3 of Brigid and my Fairies and Fastballs series!

I occasionally drop a video into my illustrious YouTube channel. That’s a line I don’t think I’d have ever thought I’d be writing back in the day, but welcome to the world, right? I am thinking about it that way because today I decided that I’d go ahead and let you all see the little […]

I’ve been spending a lot of time getting my Kickstarter project for my collection of Analog stories together. 1100 Digital Stories in an Analog World, is a title that makes me happy on so many levels. This morning I put the finishing touches on the Audio version of “Unfolding the Multi-cloud,” one of its short […]