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Category: Random

  • A Death Rattle

    Barnes and Noble has begun harassing me at least once a week with email promos to come in and buy stuff. This has been going on since January, although they’ve had my email for something like 2-3 years, now. I only received an occasional email once every few months from them before, but now it’s…

  • IWSG April

    I’m a wee bit behind on my postings. Last week was Spring Break and the monkeys were home and, and, and. Anyhoo, April 2019 IWSG prompt isn’t blowing up my skirt.  Only ONE wish to suss out ONE writing thing, like a single chapter or a specific type of scene? I’ll tell you what my…

  • Lost in the Middle

    What I like most about writing with the muse whispering seductively in my ear is that I kinda know where things are going. I’ve got a beginning, there’s some stuff in the middle and I know how things are going to end in a rough fashion. Of course things change as I write while suffering…

  • 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…

  • IWSG March

      Whose perspective do you like to write from best, the hero (protagonist) or the villain (antagonist)? And why?   This could quite possibly be a result of TV and movie consumption over 40+ years, but I tend to dabble in both, in part because of the effects I want to play with. The other…

  • AIC

    I was sick all last week. Like coughing so hard I was throwing up sick. Like lying on the couch and living the whole day in a partial doze sick. Like writing or checking email is impossible because I have to save what little mental energy I have for checking math homework sick. The only…