On May 22nd I was interviewed for 30 minutes by Joe Hilliard, an accomplished author and Keeper of the Realm. This was my first live interview in an attempt to shake off the title of Unknown Author of Mystery Suspense Thrillers with a dusting of Sci-Fi. Joe is a good interviewer and the time flew […]
Category: Rants, Random Thoughts, & Ramblings
In the Video Interview with Laura Wing last week (May 8), she said we would have more conversation than a Q&A grilling interview during our time together. I had no advance questions to prepare for…or, in my case, overthink, which left me with the challenge of getting my butterflies to fly in formation. That challenge […]
While there is a lot of action in the Dreamscape Series, some deep human emotions often only come out if the story’s telling is complete. That happens when the characters’ roles are too superficial and insignificant in the storyline. I avoid superficial and strive to have my characters show their lives in the story by […]
When writing Book #4 – Dead Thoughts – I completed a great deal of PTSD research and uncovered a treatment called Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (IRT). According to Dr. Barry Krakow and Antonio Zadra, IRT is a cognitive therapy approach used for the last twenty years. The concept of IRT enables the person with PTSD to […]
Have you ever thrown a flat stone side-armed across a still pond and watched it skip? The harder the stone is hurled, the more it skips before giving in to gravity and slipping into the depths of the water. Life is much like the relationships between the stone, gravity, and the pond. I’ve been the […]
Almost half a day spent slaving through staging photos and cropping and restaging and re-cropping to wind up with a few words in MSWord and using none of how I wasted most of the morning. I think I have redefined how to be damn busy and produce absolutely squat. But…it was time well spent because […]
I’m unsure how these things happen, but I assure you I was attempting to mind my business until it was no longer possible. I concentrated on a glass of dry cabernet when an individual sat next to me…with the appropriate empty chair between us, of course. I knew him from previous visits, but not really. […]
Sometimes, it’s the little things. The first meatloaf in 18 months is in the oven, and I’m mapping out how to devour 2 pounds of ground beef without freezing any of it or getting sick of it. My dad loved meatloaf sandwiches, so I might have to investigate. I’ve got at least 30 minutes before […]
As I research AI for the next book, I’m convinced no single definition does complete justice to what AI can be or how it can behave in human hands. Scientific discussions and exploratory investigations are bordering on a spectrum running from courageous to catastrophic. Given I am a techno-neophyte, my observations vary with any ten […]
I cannot promise where this post is going, but it’s been percolating in my head for a few days. I’ve given the relentless Wench Muse, who manages to remain just out of reach, the night off because this has to be me speaking, not some outrageously good-looking Australian female influencing my words. But that’s another […]