I’ve got a birthday coming up next week; and it’s inevitable for me to take measure of my accomplishments and my progress on the path I’ve chosen. If the feeling of the last 48 hours holds, I’ll be in rare
One Small Step and Another
It’s funny because I didn’t plan it this way at all – today I placed my first order for the proof copy of the Stages of Sleep paperback; while at the same time I finished the final assembly and started
Current stage: Awake…I think…
I now have an official “public” Facebook page. One of my Marketing Committee colleagues at Shakespeare Orange County finally got me past this particular edition of that queasy thing that happens in my throat when it comes to self-marketing. He
Four-Star Foreword
I think the saying is that the sweetest sound anyone can hear is the sound of their own name. Not sure who said that – probably Dale Carnegie. I’ll refine the idea to say that the sweetest sound a writer
Stages of Sleep
When you’re a writer in this world of empowered direct publishing, sometimes “finishing” a work is really just a matter of saying “I’m not rewriting this damn thing any longer”. That’s a power you need to use responsibly, since even
Rough Plans
So the novel is going through a couple of editorial steps, which will take a couple of months. Lord knows, even with all the eyeballs on it we’ll probably still miss some punctuation thing in every single chapter. Got to
As the younger generation asks – ‘What’s an album?’
I am nearly finished with another “short story” that has definitely, no turning back, gone and grown itself into a novelette. It passed 9K words yesterday and I will definitely need another 1K at least to bring it home. I