Welcome, Everyone, to the first Blog Post of the New Year! If you’ve followed me here from 2019, thanks for sticking with me, and, if you’re new to the Blog, Welcome aboard! This year while, empirically, no different than any other, feels particularly significant. For starters, 2020 is an election year. I don’t normally get …
For those of you that don’t know me, this time of year is one of two times during the year where I drift pretty heavily into an introspective mood – the other time is my Birthday (which is in July, so they’re nicely spaced apart). Here we are NaNoWriMo has passed, and the New Year …
I’d like to follow up a bit on one of the Things from last Thursday’s post: Don’t be afraid to ask for what you want. I don’t know about you, but for me, this is sometimes much more difficult than it sounds. It’s easy to self-reject. It’s easy to say to yourself, “They won’t want …
19-12 That was the final score of the Japan v. Ireland match last weekend at the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Japan won. There weren’t a lot of people – myself included – who saw that coming. Sure, everyone knew that the *Potential* was there for Japan to win, but it was almost a foregone conclusion …
This week, I’d like to talk about both Skill and Talent. I’m sure you’ve heard someone referred to as (and maybe you’ve been called this yourself) Talented. What is Talent? Some people don’t believe that such a thing exists. Others seem to think that Talent is all there is. Beethoven was talented. So is Eddie …
I am deep into revising JADE MOON WANING. Of the feedback I got when I sent it out to my CPs, a universal response was that it was kinda slow for the first hundred pages. This time through, I saw a place where I could tighten that up. One little change… And over 8 chapters …
I’m going to end this week by telling you a story, because – you know – that’s what I do. Last weekend, I got a Fitbit. A Fitbit Inspire HR to be exact, which wouldn’t even have been on my radar, if not for John Scalzi mentioning his. I got it for a number of …
Without getting into details, it’s been a long couple of weeks here. I’m not going to say that it hasn’t had its rays of sunlight as well (Captain Marvel – again!!), but there have been some knocks. It’s been harder to get up and get to writing. I’m still doing it, but I wasn’t working …
If you’re reading this blog, the chances are pretty good that you already know where the title of this post came from. If not, let me step back and explain. The title of this post comes from the last communication sent to Earth from Earth’s Opportunity rover on Mars after a dust storm immobilized them …
Happy Sunday Everyone! I hope you’re enjoying the weekend. This Saturday (OK, yesterday) I started the first editing pass on the current WIP: Jade Moon Waning. After letting it sit for a month, I knew I was ready to begin edits, when the story would start to pop into my head, unbidden. There isn’t much …