I spent the majority of Today writing (Author’s Note: I was drafting this on Thursday). I was looking forward to it. I had planned for it: I had the day off work and I could spend that time doing what I wanted, and I wanted to get some writing done. Needless to say, at the …
I am 51 years old. Over the course of two days, I have stacked nearly 300 bales of hay. By hand. For those of you not familiar, these are square bales – close to 3 or 3.5 feet long maybe a foot and a half wide (Yes, I know that’s not a square, but that’s …
I am closing in on two weeks post-surgery (It’ll be two weeks on Wednesday) and It’s been a fortnight of changes, let me tell you. I think I’m turning into someone who sleeps on their back – which I’d never been able to do before. I’ve started a habit of reading in the morning – …
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I looked out this morning and the sun was goneTurned on some music to start my dayI lost myself in a familiar songI closed my eyes and I slipped away “More than a Feeling” – Boston.(You’re welcome for the earworm) I’m sure this has happened to you – it happened to me just now: You …
I post every week. I’ve done this for several years now (Which reminds me that it would be interesting to know – for me at least – how long I’ve been at this). So you’d think that, when the time comes to post here, it wouldn’t catch me by surprise. But it does. Surprise might …
Late last year, I was 60-70 thousand words deep in a novel when another project appeared. Without getting into details, I switched gears to work on the new project. That was almost 5 months ago. Now that the project is out with CP’s, I’ve been able to go back to the novel I put on …
I really enjoy editing. That’s it. That’s the tweet. Now I realize that I’ve lost some of you with the title of the post, and maybe a few more of you dropped off after that first line. Not everybody finds that editing is their thing and, you know what, that’s fine. But for those of …
If you’ve been following the writerly world on Twitter, it would have been difficult for you to avoid a particular edgy take on how to view your fellow authors. I won’t repeat it here because I’m not letting that kind of crap into my house. If you’ve seen it, you know what I’m talking about. …
For those of you that don’t know me, I have a thing about roads. They are one of my jams. Give me an empty road stretching off into the distance, or vanishing around a curve – the lonelier and more secluded the better – and I’ll be happy to watch/walk down it. Since I’m talking …
Before I begin, I’d like to take a quick second to let you know that, yesterday, Part 2 of my interview with my friend Natania Barron went live yesterday. Natania’s new book, “Queen of None” Hit the shelves recently and she stopped by to answer a few questions. You can find find the interview posts …