by Hyram Voltage | Aug 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
I operate an amateur radio station. I talk to people around the world. Or I use to. The world changed. I grew up on an Indian (Amerindians) reservation. Our house was a quarter mile from the paved road. You had to go another quarter mile to get to the little village... by Hyram Voltage | Jul 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Study the past and write about it. The Romans had a problem with employment, and they came up with a solution. We call it bread and circuses, I don’t know what the Romans called it. (today we call it the Internet and welfare). One of the reason they implemented... by Hyram Voltage | Jul 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
It’s the middle of the year and many authors are talking about the progress they’ve made towards their goals. You can’t get away from podcasts about how the successful authors are killing it this year. The ones that failed to meet their goals... by Hyram Voltage | Jul 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
You’ve done it several times before. You read the instructions several times. You follows the instructions to the letter. You work hard, and do it right. And it blows up. And it wasn’t suppose to. That describes my weekend. I need to get rid of a block of... by Hyram Voltage | Jun 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
When automobiles took over the roads, what happened to the men who made the wheels for horse drawn vehicles? What happened to the men who installed gas lamps in houses when electricity took over, to the men who built ice boxes (that used large blocks of ice) when ice... by Hyram Voltage | Jun 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
It will take effort, it will take work, it will take time. You can do it. And if you don’t get it good enough the first time you can always go back and change an ebook. One audio book producer told me that most of the books he narrates have to have changes to... by Hyram Voltage | Jun 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Belay my last (Blog). (That’s Navy talk for ignore the last blog.) Google Text to Speech App has become too hard to use. After talking to an engineer (that has nothing to do with Google) I found out that Google Text to Speech was written by programmers for... by Hyram Voltage | Jun 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
I saw a YouTube video on using Google Text to Speech to convert your writing to audio. Now I can’t find the video. Google search promotes sponsored videos over everything else. It will not give me an exact match or even a close match. Web sites that I go to for... by Hyram Voltage | Jun 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
The fourth of July holiday is coming up and I plan to cook up some beef ribs for the neighbors to celebrate. But I haven’t cooked ribs or even grilled anything on the barbecue in months. The rule of a smart cook is “You don’t serve your first try at... by Hyram Voltage | Jun 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Time and again I have read a story where the steampunk inventor creates a device, at the last minute or there would be no suspense, that saves the day. Is this trope becoming a clique? The villain has a time machine that always delivers him to the right time or...