Hi, [Medical and Literary Updates: I have done a little more writing, but not much. I need to push myself over the next few weeks to finish the first draft of the novella. My thumb has (almost) healed nicely. My whole hand is stiff when I wake up in the morning, but it gradually loosens …
Hi, Literary: I’ve added about 1,500 words to Flood and Fire, so it’s progressing. Medical: I’ve been under the weather for the last few days. Last Tuesday evening, I noticed my throat was a little sore. By morning it was really scratchy and I was coughing and my nose was drizzling. Since there are some …
Newsletter 039 – May 26, 2023 Hi, Quick Update: The first draft of Flood and Fire is now about 26,000 words, but far from complete. I’m working on it a couple of hours a day, in between video training on some of the software I’ll talk about below. I usually lose a quarter of the …
Newsletter 038 – May 12, 2023 Hi, This newsletter was originally going to be about some of my new publishing and image-editing software, but my experience over the past week or so caused me to switch topics. I had an issue crop up when I installed one of them, so that’s what this newsletter is …
Newsletter 018 – July 8th, 2022 Hi, About the image above: It (and another one at the end of the newsletter) were both edited extensively. The same thing has to happen to a novel before it will be ready for publication. The reasons we edit images are often obvious. Compare my original image of Habitat …
Newsletter 002, November 12, 2021 Hi — (About the image above) I love music, and growing up in the 1960’s the Beatles were a favorite of mine (they still are). When my wife and I went on a vacation to the UK in 2010, I naturally had to go to Abbey Road, walk the crosswalk …