Hi, Nothing lasts forever. Items like computers and cell phones become less useful over time (or become problematic as they get junked up with unnecessary files). Minay and I are typically frugal and try to make everything we own last as long as possible, but eventually we do have to repair or replace some things. …
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 056 – February 9, 2024 Hi, The previous newsletter was about opportunities (like grants and paid residencies), which can be excellent resources for writers (when they are successful), but can also be time-wasters (when they don’t pan out). Anything that wastes a writer’s time isn’t good for their productivity, of course, so it’s important …
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 …
I’ve been spending far too many hours in front of my computer monitor lately. On December 11, 2020, I published my latest book, Aggravated. I had been working on it exclusively for the past several years, and had set aside several other projects that were in various stages of completion while I finished and published …