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  • IWSG July 2023

    Where do your ideas come from? Sometimes, they come from half-remembered dreams. Lately they’ve been coming from documentaries. A short documentary about the history of mythical plants that hunt people and animals is interesting, and then inspires an idea about a story for gathering said plants, and then and thenandthen… Once I was driving home…

  • Space…The Next Frontier – IWSG February 2022

    I’m being pushed out of the house. There is not enough room in this house for myself, 2 children and someone who is trying not to be a hoarder a spouse (along with one of the children desperately trying to earn his stripes to become officially recognized as a hoarder). There is simply no room…

  • IWSG December 2020

    So… This has been a year, hasn’t it? Perhaps our apocalypse outfits weren’t awesome cool badassery with knives and guns and bandoliers with military issue pants and boots scrounged from an army surplus store, but to be fair, we weren’t fighting zombies or aliens or killer robots either. No, our opponent for world domination is…

  • Tackling Area 51 In The Basement

    Has anyone else encountered an odd psychological resistance to working on your Unfinished projects? I’ve made progress, I have, really. But some days it just feels like I’m flogging a dead horse to finish some of these things that I started years ago. I’m not talking about “I bought yard for this project, but I…

  • IWSG March 2020

    Other than the obvious holiday traditions, have you ever included any personal or family traditions/customs in your stories? Not really. I should though, if for no other reasons than the fact that it would give my characters “extra” character. Like how my Mom would always eat the ears off my chocolate bunnies before I even…

  • December 2019 ISWG

    Wow. December. The year is already gone. I’m not sure what I accomplished this past year. I progressed a bit on my writing, banging out a rough draft romance novel, tightened up Book 3 volume 1 of the fantasy series (Book 3 is going to kill me, I swear. I knew it was going to…