Category: "ramblings"
Ten Years of Shuffled Off: A Ghosts Memoir
Shuffled Off was my first novel. Every novel, every story, feels like something of a miracle, but that goes double (or triple, or quadruple or...) so for Shuffled Off. The original cover. Some folks...
Living in Carterville and Time Traveling
2020 has been a difficult and unusual year. You all are living through it too, so you know what I'm talking about. The COVID-19 pandemic alone would make it a very unusual year much less the racial...
Vegas, Baby!
In early March, I spent a week in Las Vegas at a workshop all about writing for anthologies and getting to understand how editors choose stories. I was one of 50 writers who wrote a bunch of stories,...
Why I Quit Writing (Almost, Kinda, Sorta)
While this blog is focused on my recent experience with writing, the principles apply to whatever your passion is. [caption id="attachment_1340" align="alignleft" width="300"] Image courtesy of Pansa...
New Passions at Any Age
See those smiles. That's my wife, Aleia, and I after running our very first 10k last month at the Sedona Marathon. I'm 52, my wife is a tad older (being a gentleman and being married for so long, I...
Making Art With Your Friends
Writers are strange. Their imagined worlds are often so compelling that the "real" world has trouble keeping up. Writer brains are different, they will imagine a character they love and then imagine...
Wayne's Legacy
Ten years ago today, my dear friend Wayne died. Wayne was young (just shy of 43) and danced with cancer for thirteen months before his death. The ending was difficult and sad. Wayne's contribution to...
What is Enough?
Live is busy, isn't it? Not just a little either--it seems to demand more of me than I think I have on a regular basis. Maybe you too. I've got my day job (programming) and my writing job (if you're...