Lessons Do Reasons Even Matter? 28 Feb 20227 Mar 2022 The Ends Justify the Means) The 1960 film The Magnificent Seven opens on a town being taken advantage of by Calvera, the head of a notorious gang of bandits. Calvera…
Improving Technique Update on My Novel: Month 33 4 Feb 202211 Feb 2022 JANUARY STATS Days Writing: 5 New Character Backgrounds: 1 I had a couple months of excellent progress in my novel towards the end of last year. In fact, October and…
Lessons A Deadly Entitlement 13 Dec 202116 Jun 2022 One Layer) The villain in the James Bond novel and film Goldfinger is pretty easy to understand. Mr. Goldfinger loves gold, and all of his schemes are to inflate the…
Improving Technique Update on My Novel: Month 11 1 Apr 202028 Nov 2021 MARCH STATS Days Writing: 18 New Words: 5244 New Chapters: 1.75 Total Word-count: 38,857 Total Chapters: 10.75 After getting no novel work done in February it felt very refreshing to…
Improving Technique Update on My Novel: Month 2 1 Jul 201918 Nov 2021 With my last check-in a month ago I had a highly-detailed report of writing my novel for the month of May. I have no such report for June. Suffice it…
Short Stories Power Suit Racing: Part Three 16 May 201917 Nov 2021 "Add me to the next race," Taki called out to the registrar, who was seated once more at a small desk and taking applications. The man looked Taki over, noting…
Lessons Staggering Steps 4 Feb 201915 Nov 2021 Beginnings) On Monday I posted the first part of my new short story, which featured a character assigned a mission to carry out on a distant world. Amidst feelings of…
Lessons Core Needs 17 Dec 201812 Nov 2021 This last Thursday I posted a short, simple story about a father and son who were experiencing a moment of frustration and exhaustion. Each was tired of their shared struggle,…
Lessons Everwrite 2 Jul 201810 Nov 2021 This last Thursday I wrapped up my latest short story entitled Imposed Will, and felt very satisfied as I did so, thank you very much. In fact I've had great…
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