Welcome to another Installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: Whatever it is, you don’t NEED to take it all on at once. Thing #2: I can no longer bounce back in a single night from a stretch of disrupted sleep. Getting older is a trap. Thing #3: Here …
“The only constant is change,” they said. “The Wheel keeps turning,” she said. “The more things change,” he said, “the more they stay the same.” There was a time when, if you’d asked for advice about writing dialogue, most folk would tell you to strictly, only, use “Said” and “Asked” as dialogue tags. The prevailing …
Welcome, everyone to another Installment of Five Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: Some days are harder to keep on top of than others. That’s normal. You’re not a machine. The best you can do is your best – if you’ve found something worthy of your best. Thing …
Welcome, everyone to another Installment of Five Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: Time may be a human construct, but that won’t stop the world from trying to impose its timeline on your day-to-day. I get that you might not be able to extract yourself from those demands …
Welcome, everyone to another Installment of Five Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: Nothing teaches patience like being stuck behind not one but two houses on trailers, on a 2 lane blacktop highway. Thing #2: I’ve got a short story in an Anthology called “Grease Monkeys” You can find …
There are times when it might not look like it, but I am all about being organized. I love me a good list. Everything has a place, and that’s where it goes, without fail. I like to find a way to do a certain task and when I’ve got something workable, that’s how I do …
Welcome, everyone to another Installment of Five Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: You never know until you try. Thing #2: Hydrate Thing #3: Even a single step forward is progress. Thing #4: What’s playing on the Mental Jukebox today: Panama by Van Halen Thing #5: Riced Cauliflower. I know what …
Welcome, everyone to another Installment of Five Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: I’ve got a short story in an Anthology called “Grease Monkeys” You can find the Kickstarter link for it and two other great Anthologies here: Linkage! Thing #2: I’ve said this before but it bears repeating: …
Welcome, everyone to another Installment of Five Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: It’s ok to ask for help if you need it. Thing #2: The good songs are still awesome, even after a lot of time has passed. Thing #3: There is no such thing as multitasking. No, …
I finished a story last week. Like proper finished a story, and turned it in. And then I moved onto the next project with nary a word. Primarily, this was because I had not one, but two other projects that I’d placed on hold to get this story done (Deadline shuffling). Secondarily, it was a …