I got to write a guest post for Tor.com! It is live now, and here’s the link: http://www.tor.com/2016/06/06/typewriter-mania-and-the-modern-writer/ The new book comes out this week! Friends are starting to see it in Barnes & Noble stores! Wooo-hoooooo!
Here’s my newly cleaned and organized writing space for the new year: The good dictionaries and style books are close at hand. Ergonomic keyboard, check. I’m on the black keyboard now; in another month or so, I’ll return to the … Continue reading
Hello at last! Yes, I intend to return to my blog more regularly now after the busy, wonderful whirlwind of summer. To start us off, here’s a guest post written by my wife, Julie. These are her reflections on this … Continue reading
Quick story before I begin: when I go to work at the Community College of Allegheny County, I carry my stuff in a black tote bag emblazoned with a modified Tolkien illustration advertising the 75th anniversary edition of The Hobbit. I’ve gotten … Continue reading
The days and nights of Advent are swiftly flying by, and Christmas approaches. As I reflect on the coming of desperately needed Light into our dark world — a coming represented by the countless incandescent bulbs that decorate rooms, porches, … Continue reading
As I understand it, tonight is the official Harvest Moon — the full moon closest to the equinox and the beginning of fall. It will be in the sky all night, from around sunset to around sunrise, doing everything a … Continue reading
I’m now through Chapter 2 of the revision of Signs and Shadows. Double-spaced, that would be about 44 pages, I guess. It’s moving a little quicker now that I’m out of those first scenes, now that we’re deeper into the action. … Continue reading
I write on a night of celebration! First, another milestone: this is our 200th post on this blog. I extend heartfelt thanks to all those who have marched with me on this journey — and onward we go, by grace! … Continue reading
You’ll appreciate this: today at work, I got hit by a flying lazy Susan. Yes, a wooden disc came bounding toward me, and I didn’t really see it until it had bounced off me onto the floor. Fortunately, lazy Susans … Continue reading
A few days ago, when we all looked down from our paper-line balcony at work, the machine operators had amassed a vast pile of flattened aluminum cans. It was perhaps a dozen feet high, thirty feet across, and the cans were … Continue reading