Out of (Your) Control

Before I get into today’s post, I want to let you know that my Ravencon schedule is up on the Events page. If you’re going to be out and about in the Williamsburg, VA area next weekend, stop by and say Hi! If you’re a writer, then you know about struggle. If you’re taking a …

Friday Fess-Up: April 13th

Happy Friday Everyone! Here we are, a Friday the 13th Fess-up Post and I confess to being later than usual with this post because it’s been a week…and I’ve felt damn near every second of it. OK, that’s not exactly fair. I did get some discouraging news on Monday, which I’ll go into (somewhat) greater …

Friday Fess-Up: April 6th

Happy Friday, Everyone! Welcome to the inaugural Friday Fess-Up for April. Um…Ironically, there isn’t much for me to fess up to.  If you’ll recall from last week, I was going to do math. Ok, so it wasn’t gratuitous math. I mathed for a purpose. I was going to break down a long term goal into …

Long-Term and Short-Term

Before I get into anything today, I’d like to say a HUUUUUUGE congrats to the fine folk that are up for a Hugo Award this year. You can find the entire list of nominees here. You should go do yourself a favor and pick yourself up a heaping helping of awesome from that list of …

Perfect is the Enemy of Good

Happy Sunday folks! I’m afraid that this is going to be one of those “Do what I suggest, and pay no attention to what I’m actually doing” kinds of posts. First, let me explain what I mean by the title of this post. Perfect is the enemy of good when the pursuit of perfection gets …

Friday Fess-Up: March 23rd

Welcome, folks, to the penultimate Friday Fess-Up post for March. One more of these and we’ll be in “April Showers” territory. Now I can’t say I’m a big fan of the mud that’s coming, but it’ll be a bit of a relief to get the heck off the freeze-thaw cycle we’re on, and will continue …

Be Honest with Yourself

Welcome to Sunday everyone! I hope you all had (and will continue to have) an awesome weekend. Before I get into the meat of today’s post, let me show you something related to it:               (Image courtesy of the NatWest Six nations Website) First off: Well played Scotland, Wales, …