Please note: This originally went live on my Patreon page on Sunday night, February 9, 2025. If you want to see most of my business posts these days, you’ll find them on Patreon. I’m only going to post a handful here. Doing The Work Amid The Noise There are times in life when being a […]
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You know, sometimes cats make great assistants, and sometimes, no matter how hard they try, they’re not up for the task. Angel tried to help me with my writing challenge in December, but it didn’t work. First of all, I gave up writing on yellow legal pads in the seventh grade. (Although I did write […]
Continue ReadingAs some of you know, WMG suffered quite the business crisis this spring. Suffice to say that it was startling and angry-making. The upshot, though, is that the company is healthier than ever before…and I need to be the one in charge for a while. That would get in the way of my writing, if […]
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The picture above is of my cat Angel, who, when she challenges us to play, sometimes looks vaguely nuts. That’s how I’m feeling right now. It’s been a heck of a few months, and I realized on Sunday that I simply did not have the focus to spend long sessions writing and thinking about story. […]
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I’m making some changes for 2024. As many of you know, I discontinued the weekly publishing blog about a month ago. I will continue to talk about publishing on my Patreon page, but probably in a more personal way. Then, because I felt the need to ramp up my fiction production after a really awful […]
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Today is the last day to join me in a writing challenge. I’m going to focus on writing (as well as the holidays) for the last 2 weeks of 2023. I need the focus, as I explained in the first post about this. It’s been a heck of a year, but the upside is that […]
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