Betsy Dornbusch got me involved in this little escapade called “The Next Big Thing.” Being the non-conformist that I am (have you seen my hair?), I decided to do “The Next Big Things” because I’m about to finish up one project and start another. What is the working title of your next book? Jake Lasater and […]
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I’ve been contemplating the nature of the culture and government of my 1871 Roswell society. I’m at that point in the new book where I have to define it and lay the groundwork for future memory. As I contemplated this on the drive in to my day job this morning, something occurred to me. Government
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So, I sat down at my day-gig and ran a quick run-through of FB headlines. You never know what you might trawl up from there, and I got lucky over the past two days. And NO, I’m not talking about some hottie from Zodicus Zu’ul… (although some of what that guy posts is positively UberHotness.)
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I haven’t blogged in about a week. The reason is that I’m diligently working on wrapping up Jake Lasater’s first novel. I have a handful of chapters to go, a full-on edit and then a typo edit, with some peer-review mixed in for good measure. However, as folks in my writing group last night went
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I’ve been meaning to write this for about a week now. I finally got to sit down on my back porch, kick back with the laptop in an old, fairly beat up Lazy Boy and get some writing done, so no more interruptions will let me finish this little bit of anecdote. As you may
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So, I installed Google Chrome a while back and selected the “Do NOT make Chrome my default browser.” Then I tried to use my machine and it made Chrome the default browser for some functions. I immediatlye uninstalled Google Chrome and swore off ever installing another Google app on my machine… ever. The one thing
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A friend of mine recently posed a question about whether the use of adverbs was appropriate in writing or not. This was my reply: Words, like anything else, are simply tools to be applied at the right time to the right task. As writers, deliberately forgoing a particular word or class of words eliminates a
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OsFest 5 has become one of my favorite conventions to date. It was an eight-hour drive to get there and back. Guy De Marco, Peter J. Wacks and I managed to slip in a dozen panels each over the weekend (okay, so Peter got in one more—overachieving bastard that he is), and from my side
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