Category Archives: writing
Writing Prequels Is HARD!
I have some good news and some bad news… The good news is that my clone-sibling is writing a prequel to The Awakening (and other stories). The bad news is that my clone-sibling is writing a prequel to The Awakening … Continue reading
Take Someone Else’s Word for It
Since I’m still not up to writing more “Writing Glitch” posts (when last we saw my mind, it was eating tacos/enchiladas in Albuquerque), here’s a link to someone else’s advice on the topic of comma usage: To Comma, or Not … Continue reading
…and interdimensional ninjas on the front lawn.
In case you wanted to see (again) a bit of What Goes on in Their Brains When They’re Writing: Having reached around 80K words in one WIP and around 50K in another, my dear clone-sibling suddenly decided that he didn’t … Continue reading
Another well-reasoned tirade AGAINST ‘Thou Shalt Not Use Adverbs!’
This is an old (from 2017!) tirade against the anti-adverb nonsense so common in “internet wisdom” on writing, and I’d somehow forgotten to share it before, so… The most common argument I’ve seen against the use of adverbs (*) amounts … Continue reading
Updates: end of May
Question: What is both cute and scary? Answer: Eleven kittens. Smudge’s three half-sisters had their kittens in the same week, and there are now eleven small kittens — plus their moms — living in our back yard: three “tuxedo” kittens, … Continue reading
Paul’s latest novel is now available for pre-order.
From my clone-sibling’s blog: This is much different from my other works. […] It is a mostly-contemporary slow-build thriller. It is not obviously connected to my other works. Not obviously. (For the record, I think the connection is obvious, but … Continue reading
FREE sci-fi novel, plus a bit about WIPs.
Last week, I got to read about twenty thousand words of my clone-sibling’s WIP (well, one of them: he’s working on three different novels right now), the sequel to Project Brimstone (working title, Stormriders). And I gotta tell you, anyone … Continue reading
Missing the Point
Someone read this post a couple of weeks ago and apparently took great offense at the phrase ‘passing for human.’ Said it was racist and ableist… I understand how it could be either/both of those things, in a totally different … Continue reading
Once again, he seeks beta readers.
It’s time for the next stage in preparing this manuscript for publication: beta readers! We already have one volunteer, someone who’s never read for us before, and that’s good, because this story is a bit different from everything else the … Continue reading
North of Andover 