Not All The latest version of Opera doesn’t keep any cookies, including passwords. Getting back here took much time. Now I’m very late! Opera’s loss… Some are amateur in both art and writing, but the others can fit the idea. The Legion of Superheroes I’ve been a fan of this for more than three decades, […]
Category: Opinion
Writing For Comicbooks
I’ve been a full-time comicbook reader since I was 13. I read my first book when I was 7 when a dog-eared copy of an issue of The Brave And The Bold came into my possession. I’ve had many RPG publications of the superhero variety. I founded an APA about comicbooks in 1990 and a […]
Wrestling: an Alternate Fighting Style
May Not Be What You Think Before you brand me a fool. hear me out! I’m not saying this is real. I’ve been watching it for nearly 40 years and always knew it was orchestrated. It’s like stuntmen in movies, except matches sometimes go for longer. No matter, wrestlers can show you a lot about […]
Why Ninja Writing Will Change Your Life
Your writing life anyway. It changed mine. Before Ninja Writing I began a novel in 2013. I finished the first draft in early 2014, and didn’t touch it again until November 2018. As I’ve mentioned many times, I’ve been in the Montreal chapter of NaNoWriMo since 2012 and won it four years in a row. […]
I Miss Freddy Mercury
When I was a kid my family drove to Florida; on one of those trips we listened over and over to two cassettes. Because of Billy Joel’s Glass Houses and a Best of Queen compilation, I’m a fan of both. This reminds me of that time again.
Changing Views
Over time my views on different facets of writing have changed, in some ways contradicting other, previous posts on this blog: Reading While Writing Here’s my past view on this. Things changed from a quote by Stephen King. I don’t like King as a person thanks to a meeting years ago, but I still think […]
GOR: The good, the bad, and the Ugly
I haven’t posted here in a long while. Medium with it’s bigger audience lured me away. I’m trying to fix that… Cue the Ennio Morricone music… The Gor novels are mostly forgotten nowadays (although Politically Incorrect Games [P.I.G.] have released a Gor game; l have to find the email). I’m not surprised. The series began […]
A Long Time Coming Indeed (The Documentary of a Legend)
(First posted on Medium.) Gord Downey, the singer-frontman of the band The Tragically Hip, lost his battle with brain cancer last week. He was 53. Last night, CTV here in Canada aired the documentary about his farewell tour across Canada, ending in his hometown Kingston, Ontario. Many Americans don’t know the band because they are more […]
My changed view on NaNoWriMo
I’ve done NaNo since 2003 and tried Camp NaNoWriMo this past July. The first four times I ‘won’ the 50 K challenge, but didn’t achieve it ever since, and didn’t achieve the goal for Camp either. I didn’t even get halfway there. My Changed View What I’ve come to realize is that I’m now putting too […]
Pat Flewelling, on alternative plotting
It’s quid pro quo time.. over a year ago I posted on Pat’s blog (here‘s a link to the blog), now she’s returning the favor. With me writing for Camp NaNoWriMo right now, this is an appropriate post. I’m not as prolific, but few people are! At last count, I’ve written 59 novel-length manuscripts since […]