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Continue reading →: Is it Smog or Smowg?
The Hobbit was published in 1937. I didn’t read it back then, of course, not having been born until late 1970. I think I was about 7 years old when I read it the first time. My first reading of Lord of the Rings would come the next year, first…
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Continue reading →: Catching Up
So it’s been quiet for a couple of weeks. That should mean I have a backlog of stuff, but it doesn’t. There are a couple of posts I wrote but didn’t manage to put up in late July, so those will come in the next few days after this and…
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Continue reading →: Remembering Mom
Today should have been my mother’s 79th birthday. She was always good at keeping secrets when it came to her personal health and major family issues. This was a family tradition, I think, and was done under the guise of not wanting her children to worry. I can think of…
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Continue reading →: SFS: The Watch
BBC 2020 (just barely with the first episode airing on 31 December), one series with eight episodes. Being up front with an overall opinion, I’m three episodes in and enjoying it so far. But I think I’m enjoying it in spite of being a Terry Pratchett fan rather than because…
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Continue reading →: Quantity vs Quality
Another Ray Bradbury quote: “Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you’re doomed.” It’s a writer’s take on an old refrain, something that might even be a cliché at this point. Sometimes, you’ll see it stated different ways, like: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice,…
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Continue reading →: First Draft vs Final Draft
Social media has driven a lot of us to assume that our first impulse is our best response. This is the case a lot less often than most of us realize and I think it’s ultimately the reason for the overall breakdown in reasonable and reasoned social discourse in the…
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Continue reading →: June 2026 Writing Report
June was a tougher month than May. It was still productive, but not so much for fiction and in part because I managed to get a little extra dictation in, making up for the day I missed entirely. Certain family events had me on the road a lot more than…
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Continue reading →: Heroic Genesis Revisited
I’ve been trying to put a much tighter focus on my fiction work this year, working on one draft of one major project at a time. If I find I have a little extra time, I may do some editing, but it’s mainly big progress on the major fiction project…
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Continue reading →: Things that Bug Me in Fiction, Part 3
Which really should be “Things that Bug Me in Writing”, because I read more than just fiction, but it is mostly fiction I’m thinking about when I do one of these posts. I could also label this one as Part 4 if I decided to count my small rant a…
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Continue reading →: The New Dictation Experiment
There have been a few small technological advances since my last big run at dictation, and a bit of time has passed since then due to COVID and school. I’m actually not sure why I didn’t try to do more dictation in the car during the period when I was…
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