Apr 15, 2013
Monday morning, as I started to go through the ninety articles awaiting my perusal in Feedly, I was struck by the number of those telling me not to do something. If you’re like me, unless it’s a two-year-old about to grab a hot skillet off the stove top, we’re more inclined to put a positive spin [...]
Mar 28, 2012
Announcing the electronic publication of Saucy Chronicles I: The Unicorns, a fantasy anthology of eight short stories about everyone’s favorite mythical beast, the unicorn. I’m very proud to be a member of this group, and excited about our new anthology, which I was privileged not only to contribute to (“The Frog and the Unicorn”), but to [...]
Sep 24, 2011
National Punctuation Day Today, September 24, is National Punctuation Day. I’ve written about this before, but last year’s offering was fairly broad-based. This year, I’m going to focus on an area of fiction writing that comes quite easily to some, but for many, is a labyrinth of false starts, dead ends, and forbidding alleyways. What I’m [...]
Sep 23, 2011
Tomorrow is National Punctuation Day, and to mark that auspicious occasion, Mr. John E. McIntyre, who plies his trade at the Baltimore Sun, has a few things say today about the lowly comma. Please follow the link to the complete (short) article; however, there is one paragraph I’d like to highlight (emphasis added): But the [...]
Jun 18, 2011
Are you a writer? Are you a writer in search of kindred souls? Are you a writer who’d like to join a casual but dedicated support group? If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, then I invite you to check out Saucy Ink: Forums for Writers. Created as a joint endeavor with Bre and [...]
Apr 21, 2011
Now don’t get too excited: this post is not about beginning a new WIP (although I have done that, but that’s not germane) (not today, at any rate). I know I’ve been away (from the blog) for awhile. I’ve been keeping myself occupied in other ways, though: Item: I converted my homebuilt desk into a [...]
Mar 25, 2011
Nothing to see here…move along. So yeah…nothing to report on Throne because I haven’t looked at it since I last posted. I have done a bunch of other stuff, though (including a bit of writing), so I’ll talk about all that instead. Fair enough? Reading and the Library These two things kinda go hand-in-hand (which [...]