Author, Futurist, Wordsmith for Hire
I hope it’s no secret to many reading here that I don’t consider myself wholly white. Some of you reading since 1998 may know a thing or two about me, but since I’ve become published in novel form more people are coming to the blog and reading and finding out about me online and express…
Every year people at this time of year make resolutions they plan to keep. And, as any given number of articles will point out over the next few weeks, most won’t keep them. It’s often due to a mix of things. Unexpected circumstances can intrude. Commitment wavers. Life intervenes. Your job could suck your creativity…
I invited blog readers to post questions that I would do my best to answer in this post. Kenneth asks: I’m sure you’ve covered this at some time, but when did you “decide” you wanted to be a writer? I know you read a lot growing up”¦was it something you just came naturally to, or…
SF Signal asks what book turned you into an SF Fan, with reference to Bob Wallace’s enjoying the swords and blasters stylings of Burroughs. I had never seen anything like it. The cover had two huge moons floating in the night sky above a city of spires and towers. There were what appeared to be…
Did anyone watch Law and Order on NBC last night (it’s one of the few channels besides PBS and the ‘God’ channel we get in the house. Emily and I wonder if it will become the ‘all Law and Order all the time’ channel)? The basic premise was that a frustrated wannabe author writes a…
Over at Transterrestrial Musings Simberg has a post about human tribes without the words for larger numbers and how it impacts their ability to count, but then follows it with something I want to quibble with. So first he notes: Here’s an interesting article that says that human tribes without words for numbers larger than…
So at lunch today I nip into the bathroom and am standing in front of the urinal, like most men, minding my own business, staring dead straight ahead, when someone comes and stand next to me to do likewise. So far so good. But then I hear the dreaded ‘throat clear.’ Oh man, this dude…
In Greg Van Eekhout’s latest journal entry He talks about a really nice notebook that he just got. Nice pens, nice notebooks, are also linked in his comments area. Which got me thinking about my own writing tool journey… I think the only reason I wrote on paper was b/c it was during class and…