I’m becoming an old man: I fell asleep, missing the ball drop, and woke after 3 AM… in the new year. Many folks will make resolutions for the year. I’m not one of them. Folks Always Fail Them Instead, I do things differently, and get a lot of stuff done as a result: I Make […]
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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 […]
Spring Cleaning …. in Fall
After the last time that I said that I intended to update this blog more often, I stayed away even longer! Mea culpa – – but this time, there’s a reason. A good one: since May of this year (2017) I’ve been part of a group that posts on Medium. It’s just like blogging, but it […]
How I’m Getting Back Into Regular Writing
I haven’t updated this blog with new content in a long time. Both my short story and my novel have been stalled. I hope to get a habit of regular writing started again. Why? The blog was due to burnout. Although this blog I’ve been publishing on for more than 3 years, I’ve grown exhausted […]
Why I’m an indie author re-visited
I’ve been suffering “blog burnout” for some time. To counteract it I’m rewriting older posts with some new content as well. (Originally Posted on June 14, 2016) If I was under a contract to a big company, I could only write the books that I was under contract for. I could write other things, but I’d likely have […]
My final post of 2016: Reflections
Here are my reflections on the year passed… I haven’t posted here since early October. Blog burnout is as self-doubt in writing. I’m experiencing both at the same time. Lucky me. Part of the Bad Year 2016 has been a bad year for many of us. Music icons have died. Many. Celebrities in many other […]
Definition of Dramedy, part one
My short story and novel – and the series that they’re a part of – supernatural dramedy, is fairly new to fiction (although technically Janet Evanovich does it in all but name), but it has a long history on television. The word ‘dramedy’is a combination of ‘drama’ and ‘comedy’. As a genre, it combines them […]