Hi, Medical and Literary Updates: There’s not much to report. My thumb surgery is healing nicely, but I still can’t use my (fairly large) mouse with that hand, so I’m left-handing it with a smaller mouse. I have done some more work on Flood and Fire, and written an exploratory opening (a small chapter) for …
Hi, Medical and Literary Updates: My hand is healing nicely, but it’s going to be stiff for months and the tendons on the dorsal side of the hand still ache after I’ve typed for a while. I am getting a little writing done, but I’m also taking an hour or so each day to learn …
Hi, Not much has changed since the last post. I’m still writing (slowly, but progressing). I’m still exercising my hand (I can touch my thumb to the tips of my forefinger and middle finger easily now, and can almost reach the side of my ring finger, nowhere close to my pinky. I’m still taking my …
Hi, Things are progressing, still slowly. I can type, but the tendons on the back of my right hand tighten up and start hurting within a few minutes, but I am continuing to work on the novella. I exercise the hand several times a day (mostly by clenching it into a fist and holding the …
Newsletter 63 – May 24, 2024 Hi, In Newsletter #62 I covered some of my medical issues and how those are hampering my ability to write. Nothing has been decided about my hand surgery yet. Minay and I will probably visit the surgeon together, sometime in June, to discuss all of my options. In this …
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 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 033 – February 24, 2023 Hi, In the last newsletter I talked about applying for a writing residency in Cove Park, Scotland. I didn’t get it, so I won’t be heading off to the UK this year. I first heard about the residency about a week before the application was due. In my haste …
Newsletter 032 – February 10, 2023 Hi, Back in December I applied for a writer’s residency at Cove Park, Scotland. Cove Park is an international artists residency center located on a 50-acre rural site about twenty miles northwest of Glasgow. I hope to be granted a four-week residency there to work on my novel, The …
Newsletter 031 – January 27th, 2023 Hi, In the last newsletter I mentioned that I had plans for several things I intend to accomplish this year. In this one I’m just going to list them chronologically (without much explanation), but over the next few newsletters I’ll detail how I plan to complete those things. So, …