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NNWM2019: Week 4 and Out

The final week of this year's NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) has been a mixed bag. Overall, I have to say I'm pleased with the experiment.

NNWM2019: Week 3

Week Three of NaNoWriMo has been productive. Sort of. At the end of last week, I was facing a scene I've been dreading for a long time. A sex scene.

NNWM2019: Week 2

My second week of NaNoWriMo went better than my first, and there's a reason for that (apart from my getting back into the flow of writing, that is).

NNWM2019: Week 1

It wasn't a good first week for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), but progress, albeit modest, was made.

A Look Back

Twenty-odd years ago (when I was just starting out with speculative fiction), I wrote the short-short below. It was a light-hearted look at a theory that was, back then, just emerging into the popular culture. Several recent headlines brought it back to mind, and it ain’t so funny, anymore.       Gold Coast Placement […]

November Cometh

There are three types of writers: --Writers who love it --Writers who hate it --Writers who haven't heard of it Yep. I'm talking about NaNoWriMo.

The Earth Moved Under My Feet

Today is the 30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake and, once again, I am in San Francisco. I did not plan this

Take a Breath

During times like these, when the world is screaming along at Mach 2 with its hair on fire (which, I think it fair to say, it is currently doing), we must not be afraid to practice some self-care.

My Cathedral

My cathedral is made of trees, but it has seen the downslope of my attention.

Wherein I See Myself, Again

As a white male, my specific morphology is well represented in the media, but as an introverted generalist, not as much.