Tag: ponder

  • The Point of Publishing…

    I’m not there yet. I’m a slow writer. I’ve learned through observation that the masses do not want to wait 2 years in between books that are all a part of the same series (well, not anymore – 30 years ago, there wasn’t much of a choice, but now…). If you make them wait, you…

  • The (Early) IWSG First Post of 2018 and Obligatory New Year’s Post

    Lose Weight! Get in Shape! Get out of Debt! Travel! Burn My Ex’s House Down! Write! Leran to Splel! Get My Math On! Publish! Ahhhh, the New Year. Full of possibility and hope. I haven’t really thought about it that way for a while. My time sense in the last few years has become narrowed…

  • 2017 School Year Resolution

    *This s a long and perhaps self-pitying post. If you choose to skip it, I wouldn’t blame you.* Starting at around spring break, this summer has been 4 Iron Man competitions and an Olympic Pentathlon crammed into the course of a full marathon, run at a sprint while juggling live squid. Occasionally a clown chases…

  • IWSG Post

    What is the werdest or coolest thing you’ve ever had to research for your writing? Hmmmm…. Well, I already know that I’m on a Watch List somewhere because of these: By the way, The How Dun It Book of Poisons is EXCELLENT. Definitely worth the investment to have this one in your writing library. Each…

  • Looking at How I’m Going to Get There

    One of my personal self-publishing heroes is Kristine Kathryn Rusch. If you haven’t read her posts, especially her Wednesday Business Musings, you are seriously missing out. (I would donate or do the Patreon thing to support her if I could, by my own financial demands are such that I can’t at this moment in time.…

  • Resisting Technological Advances – A Tale As Old As Time

    I am a luddite. Some technological changes do not please me. I do not like the cloud. I do not like e-books. I do not like streaming music/videos. All of this has to do with the fact that I prefer physical possession of media. I enjoy scribbling notes in my books. I notice I don’t…