RUSHING
So I’m sticking with my new diet of 1000 words per day and it’s going great. Usually I’m finished by noon or 1 pm having put in a good four hours or so of work. I’ve found that I spend […]
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Resting on my teeny weeny laurels
I’m going to admit something here in the hopes that it stops someone else from making the same mistake I made. I wrote my first book in a frenzy. I wrote two sequels, also in a frenzy. After many (mis)adventures […]
Songs in the key of life
I’m sure I’m not the only one who listens to music while working on a new story. It helps me get into the mood. I almost feel as if I’m channeling my hero if the CD is the right one. […]
The Semblance of Bling
Back when I owned a gangsta rap label…that’s right kiddies! Jo was a playa… I had a trio of fine rappers from Hunter’s Point, California. Indeed, they were our first signing. They were good guys but they came from a […]
One thousand a day. That’s all I ask!
It’s funny because I think it was Elizabeth George, in her excellent book about writing (Write Away), who first told me that I should set a word count goal for myself and see that I met it everyday, and I […]
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Halitosis and Heartbreak
Rupert and the Erstwhile Flibbertygibbet Worms! Worms Too! How I ate Breakfast and Went to Work Halitosis and Heartbreak How important is a good title? Are these good titles? I don’t know. I just culled them at random from Amazon’s […]
LMFAO? ROFL? IMHO?
Are you like me? Do you find these acronyms sort of annoying? Can you just not be bothered to write lol on your emails to make your point clear? I tend towards a sarcastic sense of humor which does not […]
Comments box Glitch
It’s been brought to my attention that there is some weird thing happening when you try to leave comments on the blog. Sorry about that. It’s not you, it’s the site. Please be patient and we’ll have it figured out […]
ACTIVE AND PASSIVE WORKING
If this seems like a contradiction, read on and I will explain. I believe that even when I am doing other things such as washing dishes, enjoying a movie or staring off into space, part of my brain is still […]