Do you have a will? If you’re roundabouts my age (mid-(mumble)) sans kids chances are good you don’t. It’s one of those things that you probably don’t really think about, or don’t want to think about, or just can’t seem to get around to. Its on the To Do list, of course, cause its a [...]
It is November 1, and thus marks the annual outpouring of hopeful creativity on the internets. November is, of course, the National Novel Writer’s Month, aka NaNoWriMo, now in its seventh year, where one attempts to write 50,000 words in a month. It is joined this year by the (to me, seemingly) much easier NaBloPoMo, [...]
This story I wrote a coupla years back — about a tech support call from a car — seems to have come true. Jan Chipchase spent twenty minutes in his car in hot weather last week with the windows rolled up waiting for a “security reset.” Freaky. (I got it from Radar O’Reilly.)
I’ve been thinking for a while that I need to write more fiction (and a bunch of people who have read my fiction have told me so too). But I’ve been really bad at writing fiction for a really long time. Recently, I stink at it. I’m boring. I can’t finish anything. So then I [...]
Comb Jackson, the fisherman who lived by the shoals where the river meets the sea, captured a mermaid took her as his wife. The men in the town congratulated him heartily for finding a wife so beautiful, seemingly unaware of her green and gold hair, and ignoring the enormous silent green tears she shed from [...]