Category Archives: Miscellany

My Upcoming Autism Memoir

Over the course of this year, I have mentioned in passing, both here and on my Facebook Author page, that I’ve been working on a memoir. Now I can announce it should be ready on Amazon Kindle (and other ebook places) by the middle of next week. When it is ready for purchase, I will …

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Arts and American Fascism.

The recent United States presidential election has not only permitted a Fascist to assume power once again over the nation and its resources. It has proven that just under half of the citizens of this nation are in diametric opposition to democracy and wide-ranging human freedoms. There are in short, tens of millions of evil …

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The Delusion of the Artist

Anybody who writes anything beyond a private diary has some degree or arrogance, delusion, or both. I include myself in this. I am somewhat deluded as a writer. I like to think more deluded than arrogant. Don’t worry though, if you happen to be a writer. I don’t think these need be permanent, or even …

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The Tempest in a Teapot

I can write two books at once, and have done. The caveat is that one has to be fiction, the other non-fiction. They occupy parts of my mind distinct enough from one another to cause no issues. Outside of this arrangement, I won’t write more than one book at a time. One will inevitably suffer …

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The Five Pages Rule

I’ve mentioned before I rarely read books of more than 400 pages. I realize that to some I am missing out on many potential great stories. But as I am, and have always been a slower reader than average, (probably related to Autism…everything else is!), I have to be choosey about length if I don’t …

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