Category Archives: Writing
The End, and the Beginning, Have Arrived.
Last night, around 7:00PM, I made the final revision in the final draft of my upcoming novel, Flowers of Dionysus. Barring any mistakes that I spot during formatting, (and a bit of waffling I’m doing on some character names) I have altered the manuscript for the final time. From here on out, the focus is on …
How the Day After the Super Bowl is Symbolic for Writers
It’s possible to be a writer and also watch football. I am such a person. As such, I am still annoyed that such an atrocious call was made by Seattle at the end of the game last night to cost them the championship. (Which it almost certainly did.) Yet this is not a football blog. …
Confessions of Nervousness
As I take the final steps toward publishing my novel, Flowers to Dionysus I admit I am a bit nervous. A certain nervousness I wouldn’t have experienced before I published Thank You For Ten last year. Last year when I launched my first ever self-published experience with that short anthology of short fiction, I had what I …
Inspiration in a Hospital?
Not everyone that goes into a hospital is in grave danger, of course. Good things happens in hospitals too. Yet that doesn’t mean anyone particularly enjoys being a patient. Or waiting for a patient. Yet I found myself in that situation yesterday for several hours as a family member had an outpatient procedure performed. Still, …
The Fear of Shelving
Last night is as close as I have come to shelving my current novel in progress. It may yet come to that. To begin with I started thinking that if I keep asking the question about continuing with this story at this time, that’s probably a strong indication that I shouldn’t continue. For more than …
