Six years ago, when I published Seeing Red, I had zero fear and zero expectation. I wanted to give this “self publishing” thing a try, but I kept my personal stakes low. Based on all my other forays into “the public eye,” having high hopes would lead to massive disappointment. (In the misspent youth of… Continue reading FEAR AND EXPECTATION
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EYES AND EARS: A PERSONAL SAGA
Welcome to the roller coaster that is life. If you’re just joining us, sorry for the crap show. It was like this even before I got here. And the people in charge are just making it worse and worse. There have been some developments in both my public and personal worlds, interestingly represented by eyes… Continue reading EYES AND EARS: A PERSONAL SAGA
LIFE, OR NOTHING LIKE IT
It’s another month where I have nothing of any real interest to say, and this time I don’t even have anything I’m particularly pumped about sharing here. I read Drew Barrymore’s memoir Wildflower, which I really liked, but beyond that my life is pretty much a void. (Not in the nihilistic, “existential crisis” sense, just… Continue reading LIFE, OR NOTHING LIKE IT
GOT A THING DONE
Hello, Hoopy Froods of the internet! I’m so happy to pretend you’re reading this today. A couple of weeks ago as I write this (which is about a week before this will post), I had a rare moment of “getting something finished.” I figured out how to get the AI audio files of the Seeing… Continue reading GOT A THING DONE
MOTIVATION IS A FINICKY THING
In the last post, I talked about how AI text generation has gotten me excited about writing for the first time in forever. (No, that’s not a Frozen reference. Stop trying to distract me. We’re barely a paragraph in!) That excitement / eagerness has not waned at all. But what has also not waned is… Continue reading MOTIVATION IS A FINICKY THING
WHY I CHOSE TO INDIE (SELF) PUBLISH
Depending on who you ask, there either is or is not still a stigma surrounding self-publishing. The “is” people will tell you that your writing has not been vetted by the proper people, that it has not been through the rigorous editing process. You are an unknown quantity, and only certain people are qualified to… Continue reading WHY I CHOSE TO INDIE (SELF) PUBLISH
BOOK RELEASE IN THE TIME OF THE PLAGUE
Since my last bona fide blog entry, the entire world has changed. That seems like a hyperbolic statement, but it’s really not. Based on my admittedly limited knowledge, COVID-19 was still mostly contained on another continent with just the merest hint of landing on my shores. It was more an idea than any real threat.… Continue reading BOOK RELEASE IN THE TIME OF THE PLAGUE