Category: People

  • I’m Going To Kill Him….

    I love him. No, really. I do. Sometimes. Just not when he’s irritating me. Like today. He has a day off and I’m trying to work on something. I’m trying to work on a writing something. It’s a fight scene. This isn’t something you can just rough out and heavily edit later to make it…

  • Starting 2019

    There’s actual snow on the ground. I live in Colorado, and, sad to say, snow is a rarity anymore. But even an inch  of snow on New Year’s Day is lends hope for the coming year. Misplaced hope, perhaps, but hope none the less. 2018 has been an eventful year. Some of it good, some…

  • Doubts

    Doubts are hard. I mean they are useful, they serve an evolutionary purpose. Doubt makes one give a second, more careful look at something. Doubt gives you reason to move cautiously, maybe take in a few extra details about the situation or your plans. Doubt may have saved an ancestor or two from becoming some…

  • Directions?

    Have you ever decided to take a long, hard look at your life and *think* about what it is your doing and why and what you are expecting to get out of it? Have you ever noticed that in most movies, the hero doing this manages to sort his/her shit out in a single night…

  • My Failure of Words

    Most of those of us who write insist that words have the most power.  People need words. People can feel through your words. People can live and breathe and love and even have sex using nothing but words. It’s something us writers can get a little smug about. Lately, my world has been turned upside…

  • IWSG July

    July 3 question – What are your ultimate writing goals, and how have they changed over time (if at all)? Ahhh… I’mma write about something else. “Things I Finally Learned After I Got Hit Over The Head With Them.” I’m an “All or Nothing”  kind of person when it comes to certain things, like volunteer…