Category Archives: Writing

Next Weekend

February 19, 2007 – 10:09 am

… Con DFW

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Suffering?

February 8, 2007 – 1:08 pm

Pooks made a comment here about my reaction to my short story, and used it to ask whether other writers suffered. My initial reaction was “that isn’t suffering,” and I haven’t changed my mind, but after thinking it over for a while, I can see why she’d the question that way. Making the reader suffer […]

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A long weekend

January 29, 2007 – 10:31 am

So I’m finally going to write a fairly personal entry here, because it’s relevant. This last weekend has been tough, and in a way it isn’t over. We returned from a couple of years in Seattle in 1987. My wife, Vicki, had been in a car wreck while up there, and was still in constant […]

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Put that story down, you don’t know where it’s been!

January 28, 2007 – 7:24 pm

I don’t know much about the technical aspects of writing. I have a fairly good instinctive grasp of grammar – which is fortunate, because I don’t recall ever studying formal grammar at school. When it comes to defining components of a sentence, I can’t – but I rarely need correction. Thinking about it – now, […]

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Back to work

November 11, 2006 – 1:12 pm

It’s good to have some pressure to write again… now I’d just better be sure that lunchtime meetings don’t lose me my day job.

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