Tag: writing
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Live Reading and Other News – May 2026
Go to page: Live Reading and Other News – May 2026Event I’m one of the featured readers at this month’s Two Hour Transport! This is a remote event held on Zoom. The first hour, starting at 6 PM PST (9 PM EST) is open mic, where attendants can read if they want to, usually for about 5 minutes each. Log in a little early if…
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News and Updates – January 2026
Go to page: News and Updates – January 2026Happy New Year! I hope everyone has enjoyed whatever holidays they celebrate, and I assume one of those to have been the New Year. May your 2026 get off to a great start and just keep rolling. News On that note, let’s get the start of my 2026 out of the way. I am currently…
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News and Updates – July 2025
Go to page: News and Updates – July 2025News Well, it’s been a minute. That’s primarily because I don’t really want to make up something to talk about every month, nor do I expect you fine, discerning people care if I update monthly. Although, presumably, you want to hear from me sometimes, or why are you on this list? So, here’s what’s going…
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New Snippets
Go to page: New SnippetsHello, My Pretties. I bring to you three (3!) new snippets to make up for letting February go by with no post. Go ahead, count them (Hint: there are 3). If one of them speaks to you, feel free to make such use of it as pleases you.
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Welcome, 2025!
Go to page: Welcome, 2025!With another new year now underway, I thought I might talk about the experience of being, as a friend says, “old af.” It was not with the turning of this past year, but at some random moment several years ago, when I realized – with startling and unforgiving clarity – that I have many, many…
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Reading as Craft
Go to page: Reading as CraftI love books about the craft of writing. They’re like candy. I don’t take every piece of advice as gospel, just like I don’t eat black licorice. I discard the things I don’t agree with, or don’t think will work for me, but I am willing to try techniques that I have doubts about, just…
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Life Sans Connecting Scenes
Go to page: Life Sans Connecting ScenesThere are some specific things about the way our minds work that I find endlessly fascinating: what really makes us happy, sleep and dreams, and memory, which I’ve written about before. Although I specify “mind” here, I don’t deny that much — if not all — our behavior is based in our biology. But these…
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A Fantasy Author Considers Mystery (and Crime!)
Go to page: A Fantasy Author Considers Mystery (and Crime!)One of these days, I’m going to write polished, well-crafted essays, complete with a premise, coherent arguments, and a satisfying conclusion. Today is not that day. Instead, what we have here is a semi-coherent collection of thoughts I’ve been dwelling on that almost starts with a premise — that there are some definable stylistic differences…
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[Fiction] Tough Love
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Go to page: [Fiction] Tough LoveDarryl slotted three quarters into the vending machine and punched the button for the packet of salted peanuts, ignoring the call of the Snickers bar right next to it. After ten hours on the road, a shot of sugar was sounding pretty good, but he’d hate himself when he did his next blood check and…
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Welcome, 2024!
Go to page: Welcome, 2024!Artist Statement I have been musing for a couple of weeks about what to post for the New Year. I had a few graphical ideas in mind, but nothing was coming together. Then today, I listened to Writing Excuses. This was fortuitous, as they introduced me to the concept of the Artist Statement, or more…