Hi, Literary Update (not much to add): My novella is a little over 40,000 words now. I hope to have the first draft of it finished fairly soon. [Note (11-7-2025): I was apparently kidding myself. For reasons I will cover later in the year, I still haven’t finished it.] I’ve already spotted a few structural …
Newsletter 60 – April 12, 2024 Hi, In several of my blog posts and newsletters over the years I have mentioned how music is such an important part of my life, and about how I have used it while I write. The truth is that I don’t use it as a writing tool very often …
Newsletter 054 – January 12, 2024 Hi, If you’ve been following this newsletter for any length of time you will have noticed that 2023 was a year of ups and downs for me. Things didn’t always go as smoothly as I hoped they would. In the newsletter I sent at this time last year, I …
Newsletter 047 – September 22, 2023 Hi, About the Image Above: A few things I’ll cover in this newsletter (top to bottom — charging my Chevy Bolt, one of our new faucets, and a few of Minay’s quilts suspended on our new back fence). Disclaimer: This newsletter is spliced between the sixth and the seventh …