I had to take a break unfortunately as the tail end of the semester kicked my proverbial ass. Because of my wreck in December I ended up way behind, so when you add my schoolwork and slowly working back up to full time at my job, it ended up being a lot. Plus, finishing my [...] Read more »

The first full revision of Moving on Nightfall is done! The last 30 pages were aaaaaagonizing. Onto the next revision, it has been a while since I saw the beginning of the book, (like several months) so I am comfortible with jumping back to the beginning and going from there. I’m sure it will go [...] Read more »

I don’t usually do a lot of research for short stories, but occasionally I need a piece of information that I don’t already have stored in my brain or bookmarked. That’s when I do a little bit of fast and dirty searching.
For instance, for a piece of flash fiction I just wrote, I needed a [...] Read more »

If this generates a title of a book or short story already in existence, I assure you, it was completely random. If it generates a title you’d like to use, go right ahead! A word of thanks to those people who have created Javascript tutorials or put sample scripts up for people like me to [...] Read more »

Recently I attended a Shawn Mullins concert with my daughter. Mullins came to my attention pretty much when he came to everyone else’s, when his song “Lullaby” became a hit smash. (Click on the link to go to Amazon to hear a clip if you don’t remember it.) I purchased that album, Soul’s Core, and [...] Read more »

I upgraded Wordpress and it is not playing nice with my theme. However, after upgrading 4 different Wordpress installations, I’m gonna wait a day or two to do up a new theme. So please excuse the funky fonts and I will fix it asap Read more »

by Tattoo Highway. It tied for second place in their “Picture Worth 500 Words” contest. Check out the story here, then come back and read my comments, and then pass on any feedback or comments you might have for me! Read more »

1.) Piperka - Piperka is a site that tracks when many many web comics (and more are being added all of time) are updated. I read something like 150 web comics, but many are very rarely and sporadically updated, so this site rocks.
2.) HEMA - online winkelen - it’s not in English (nl - Netherlands?) [...] Read more »

When somebody mentions “literature,” what’s the first thing you think of? (Dickens? Tolstoy? Shakespeare?)Do you read “literature” (however you define it) for pleasure? Or is it something that you read only when you must?

This is a good question. Personally, “literature” for me means reading material. This is probably in good part because as a writer, [...] Read more »

I first read Things Fall Apart in a World Lit class I took a few years back. I had never heard of Chinua Achebe, and to be honest, I wasn’t a big fan of the book when I read it. It is set in the 1890’s, in Nigeria, and focuses on one of the leaders [...] Read more »

I wrote about the stress of revising my novel last week, and how with a long work sometimes I find it a challenge to make it all of the way through revision process. The comments to that post inspired me to think a bit about my process of writing and revising, and analyze a bit [...] Read more »