A Pause for Some Flooding

I’m okay, by the way.  My house is not flooded, my stuff is safe.  But here is what my town looks like, right now.  

Point of View Issue

So, I was writing a scene from the Lepterian’s point of view–an event that he is remembering–and I ran into an interesting Point of View problem. The scene is supposed to be locked into a tight third-person limited. The problem is that every time he refers to himself as “The Lepterian” the scene pops right back

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An Interesting Detour

I was in Hiawatha, Kansas last week, and ran into the Davis Memorial.   All this fits in a space a little bigger than the size of a two-car garage.     When John’s wife Sarah died, he had this monument built for her. The marble statues are imported from Italy… And installed in the cemetery in

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Welcome

So, I finally broke down, and decided that I needed a writer’s website.  What can I say?  All my friends are doing it.  And right now, that really is my motivation.  I wanted a place where my internet writing buddies can come, hang out, and read some of what I’m working on. And probably a

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Yes, that is my notebook.

January Statistics

I wrote 31,401 words in January.  I finished up the write-in-other-genres experiment, that is a science-fiction novel.  And I got back into my own genre with the idea that’s been percolating for the last couple of months.  There’s a murder.  And a fire.  And I’m absolutely falling in love with the dynamic between my two

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