Category: Writing
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The Domes update 5-01-23
Stage 1 (barfing) is done. Stage 2 (crafting) is well on its way… oh that’s the hard part. I have taken many of those rough sections of barf and have crafted them into much goodness. Subjects, raw thoughts, and ideas. Layouts of the important parts of the dialog have been expanded and the places marked…
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I’m too excited
I don’t want to do life. No, that is not a cry for help. I have no time to jump off a bridge. I just don’t want to do anything but work on the story. I don’t want to clean, walk, eat, or see people. I want to be left alone. Yet there are jobs,…
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The Domes update – April
It’s done. April fools. The Domes – the second book of the Spec in Time series – is actually more done than I thought it would be at this point. All of that aforementioned puke of ideas and possible dialog is done. What is amazing is that I already have around 80% of that word…
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Count those ‘its’
Why are we so very concerned with word count? Really, it is because no one wants to read War and Peace. This isn’t a rant against Tolstoy. I really liked Anna Karenina. I gave W&P a good go at it for about 10 years. I finally gave up after it had been moved to the…
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Domes update for March 1st
It is March. It was a crazy February for the next book. Domes got a huge amount added to it. At this point, all of the parts and pieces are in place. All the extra notes have been removed, along with the stuff I mistakenly put in twice. Then there were the sections that I…
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Artist Temperament
I got a review? I got a review! On Amazon, I got a review…on my book. Things are kinda happening. I have now sold more books than I thought I would. I forced both my friends to buy 2 books, I thought that would be the end of it. I must have more friends, because…
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NAMES
I have a job for you… I need names. First Names, Last Names, Nick Names. English, French, Jewish, Palestinian, Russian, South African, Saudi, Icelandic, Uruguayan, Japanese… EVERYWHERE! From this planet or others. Any info on these names would amuse me as well. This is really the most difficult thing, people who come and go need…
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Barfing words
Blog. Blog: Bllllooooooggg!!!!! “THEY” say. They say a lot of nothing. I don’t see they doing anything. If they really wanted me to blog, they would blog for me. Right? I hurt; I am tired; I don’t feel good. I want to write important things; Spec is very busy with the penguins right now and…
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Wordfalls
Words wash down over the smoothed rocks of the mind. Splashing onto the page that exists no more. Old idioms die hard. Tapped keys with a rubbery feel, keeping tea from where it does not belong. To the hard drive, to the cloud. The new basin, where the waterfall of the words resides. Pain grips…
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The Harvesters 1.01
Well, it is done. Version 1.01 is available Saturday 12/3. I have a thing about the number 123. I am glad that I pulled it and redid the mistakes. The typos and hominins would have driven me crazy(er). I also learned so much during this regrouping process. I learned to let things go; to admit…
A Spec in Time Series 