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All The Stuff We Throw Away
Read more: All The Stuff We Throw AwaySeveral weeks ago the apartment complex where I live suffered a breakdown of its trash pickup system. Normally, trash is emptied from the dumpsters on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. That means, […]
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Learning From Donald Trump
Read more: Learning From Donald TrumpIn this season of hotly contested political races, including the Presidential one, I think it’s interesting to sit back and try to learn something from all the commotion that surrounds them. […]
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Words To Watch
Read more: Words To WatchReaders of this blog are probably aware that I’ve written three science-fiction novels, though they haven’t been published yet. I’m still trying to get an agent or editor interested in […]
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Starting Slowly
Read more: Starting SlowlyWhy do written works have to start with something that captures the reader’s attention immediately? We novice writers are told repeatedly that in order to get a book to sell, we […]
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Random Thoughts And Ugly Comments
Read more: Random Thoughts And Ugly CommentsJust a few thoughts about incidents that have taken place over the past few weeks. I’ve completed a massive revision of the third novel in my Anthanian Imperative trilogy, and […]
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All Those Book Reviews
Read more: All Those Book ReviewsDo you write reviews of books you’ve read? I haven’t done many recently, though I suppose I should because I would expect readers to review mine once they’re published. Reviews, especially […]
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The Spoken Word
Read more: The Spoken WordI’m going up to Santa Fe tomorrow (August 1, 2016) to read from my first science-fiction novel at Collected Works bookstore. They have an open mike*, and anyone can read a […]
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Sex Scenes
Read more: Sex ScenesAre sex scenes really necessary in novels? That depends. I just read a book that had a sex scene that took up one entire chapter, and I got to wondering […]
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Good Enough To Be Published
Read more: Good Enough To Be PublishedOver the past eighteen years, I’ve written three science fiction novels, each about 125,000 words. That’s just the word count of each of the manuscripts as they exist today, and doesn’t take […]
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A Cancer Moonshot
Read more: A Cancer MoonshotSeveral months ago, President Obama announced what he termed a “moonshot” type of program to finally conquer cancer. An admirable idea, and let me go on record as saying I’m […]
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The Next Two Hundred Years
Read more: The Next Two Hundred YearsSeveral weeks ago I chanced to see a Facebook post about some predictions an artist had made in the early 20th Century of what life would be like a hundred […]