Ten years of firewood cutting…and how it affects my stories
Sometimes anniversaries sneak up on you. We are halfway through our tenth year of cutting firewood for heating our…
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Horses going into fall
I’ve been really satisfied with how things are going with the horses as we move into fall. Mocha is holding her weight…
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The nonspeculative roots of my speculative fiction
This rant got set off by a thread from Xitter, whereupon a person in an English lit grad program was openly mocked by…
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Sliding into fall
It seems as if fall just sneaks up on me over the past few years. Once, it meant back to school, first as student,…
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Summer training thoughts
I guess you could title these two photos as what a difference a year makes. In the first photo, I had no idea that I was…
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Dancing with writer burnout
Burnout. That’s something we all dance with as writers. I hit the wall late last fall and didn’t work my way past…
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Getting organized…oooh that awful housework stuff!
(vector by happymay, from Depositphotos, uploaded in 2014) So why is it that it took until I was sixty-six years old…
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Lessons learned from writing The Cost of Power
I learn something new from every book I write, even after twenty-five odd books out there. Sometimes what I learn is a…
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