Don’t Just Do It, Write.

Don’t start your writing day because you have to do it. Don’t think of it as a drudgery. Don’t think of it as something you have to do. Write because you want to find out how the hero is going to get out of the mess you got him into. This may take a...

Writers, Don’t Get Enamored With Technology

There are tons of offers out there that with this software or device you can, help you or make you, write better, successfully, profitably. Resist. Resist the new word processor built just for novel writers. The word finder software that will find just the right word...

Steampunk and Photographing the Lunar Eclipse

I have photographed two solar eclipses. So when I saw all the hoopla on the web about the lunar eclipse on the twentieth I decided to photograph it. What would photographing a lunar eclipse have to do with writing Steampunk? The experience and the problems of...