I started the Thursday Thoughts theme last week with first point of the Scout Law. This week, we take the second point, a scout is loyal. Loyalty can be nuanced in meaning. Sure, most people are loyal to country, school, and family. One of the things we teach the boys… Continue reading
There is no Wednesday Writer entry this week. That’s not what this post is about. Monday afternoon I got a call related to my copywriting business. A major player in my main target industry needed a technical document written by an ESL author turned into native speaker English. The content… Continue reading
One of the best exercises assigned to me as an emerging writer came from my friend David Gerrold. He gave me a series of emotions, and my assignment was to write 500 or 1000 words (I forget the total now) on that single emotion. Not a story, not a sequence… Continue reading
For the second week in a row, and the 14th consecutive day since I started working on A Darkling Nine again, I hit my word count target. I have not missed my daily target so far since starting up again. This week, I wrote 13,772 words against a target of… Continue reading
Late last year, I had a blender go down, still well under warranty and with totally unsatisfactory response from the company. I blogged about it (without revealing the offending company’s name) here and here. Yes, those are indeed on my business blog, and not Entropy Central. We finally bought a… Continue reading
It’s been quite a while since I posted about any of my fishes. There has been a lot of activity in the 46-galon tank lately. First, I lost the last of my Florida flagfish (Jordanella floridae). Florida Flagfish Lost She had a fungal growth problem that appeared to be healing… Continue reading
New Series of Posts On Thursdays, I will be discussing traits and ways to be a better person. My son has been in scouts for a number of years, so I thought for the first twelve weeks, I would hit the 12 points of the scout law. Now, I know… Continue reading
I’ve known John Murphy through Codex for the past few years. He is engaging and has worked on some interesting projects. For somebody unfamiliar with the work of John P. Murphy, how would you describe your fiction and which story do you think is the best introduction to your work?… Continue reading
I have pretty much always done this, but I saw it specifically stated in an article I read out in that vast aether known as ‘somewhere.’ I do know that what I read was definitely written by Jerry Pournelle. When constructing a paragraph, the strongest element, the most forceful sentence,… Continue reading
I got back on the novel horse this week, and let me tell you, it feels so good to be moving on this project again. I let myself get derailed from A Darkling Nine last May due to a combination of school letting out for the summer and a sticky… Continue reading
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