The Terror of Having Your Work Read

Terror? I thought the whole idea was to get your book read. Well, last weekend, August 31 through Sep 4, I attended the CoKoCon in Phoenix, AZ. It’s a great little con and I like little cons. Phoenix was also hot, but some of the rooms were so cold that only the...

Road trip writer – Dream On

I took a vacation to attend a radio conference in Wichita, Kansas. I went with my friend from high school, we’ve been doing this for decades. I drove from the coast of California to Kansas city, MO, then to Wichita, KS. Over 4100 miles and used close to 100...

Editing is not fun

I just read a blog where the author of the blog said that editing is fun for her and should be fun for you. Someone should lock this person up, for their own good and ours. Writing can be fun. You enter a world where things happen, it’s not boring and if it is...

Don’t be a Lonely Writer

  Writing can be lonely. It’s just you and your thoughts. Those thoughts can be a world or a universe full of people, but they are all in your head. The other day I was barreling down the highway on theĀ  way to a meeting of my critique group. John Tesh was...

The Roomba and the Writer

What does a Roomba and a writer have in common? Something that is way out of a writers comfort zone, advertising. In a ZDNet article dated June 15, 2018 Colin Barker mentioned that in 2003 the iRobot company built 250,000 robots. After black Friday 2003 they still had...