Somebody on Twitter asked this question today: I have wrestled with this question at intervals. I usually think about it for a short while, but then I remember that I have a finite amount of time left on the planet and I need to create something that is definably mine before I go. I have worked in I.T. for 42 years, and I do not believe that I was able to “move the needle” on […]
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Last year, I sat down with my alter ego, Belem Knight, and talked to him about him no longer dicking about writing short pieces, and impressed upon him the idea that he should get his arse in gear (to use an old British expression) and write longer stories. He attempted this with Bad Girl Christmas at the end of last year, which has some amusing and titillating moments. This year he has been intermittently working
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For me, on every level, 2021 has been a struggle. I contracted Covid-19 last December, and I am still dealing with symptoms of what is now increasingly referred to as Long Covid. This has affected my day job and my writing. It has been difficult for me to move into Hammering mode, where I actually hammer out prose. My brain is not running at 100%, and has not been 100% all year. It is rather
During a conversation with a fellow author yesterday, the subject of tinkering came up. Both of us, it became clear, will read and re-read our draft chapters and stories and, as is normal, we will spot something. It can be prose, sentence construction, plot discrepancies…almost anything. In my own case, knowing that people were reading story samples resulted in me going back and re-reading the samples, only to find…yep, you guessed it, stuff that I
We recently returned from a week’s vacation in St. Maarten. St. Maarten is still recovering from Hurricane Irma in September 2017, exactly 4 years ago. A significant percentage of buildings are still not repaired or re-opened after that event. When we went there in 2014 we stayed at the Orient Bay nudist resort. The resort was mostly destroyed, and has yet to be rebuilt. Kind of sad to see derelict shells and roofless buildings where
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