Hi, New Year’s Resolutions (NYRs). I wonder why we choose the start of a new year to resolve to accomplish something we have probably have been meaning to do for some time, but didn’t manage to get it done earlier. If the task was important, why didn’t we do it when we first thought about …
Hi, Most of us mark our sojourn on this planet in days and months and years, using a solar cycle. Every 28 to 31 days almost all countries on Earth shift to a new month, and every 12 months they shift to a new year. There are a few exceptions, of course. A little over …
Hi, [Medical and Literary Updates: I’m finding it difficult to focus for long periods of time, which makes the writing more difficult, of course. Some of it’s mental fuzziness, although most of that disappeared after I stopped taking pain medication, The rest of it is because of my daily routine now. One of the things …
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 …
This is a question I’ve often asked myself, and I would imagine most writers who have looked seriously at their craft have also wondered, “Do I have what it takes?” I’m going to hand the microphone (metaphorically) over to one of the most successful screenwriters of all time, Terry Rossio. He wrote, co-wrote, or headed …
[Originally posted on my former blog, Michael Runs the Gamut] I had tweeted about it on Twitter, and posted about it on the Jagged Man website. [2021 Note: The Jagged Man website is currently dead. It will likely be resuscitated when a second edition of the book goes on sale. Sometime in 2023?] Although I …
[Originally posted on my former blog, Michael Runs the Gamut] For the past several years I’ve submitted queries (although not nearly often enough), and pitched my novels at conferences, with no success. Okay, I lied at least a couple of times in that first sentence. In 2002, I participated in NaNoWriMo for the first time, …