RAZORED ZEN

Sitting around after finishing the day’s writing, I had a little Jack Daniels and listened to some Black Label Society, particularly a ...

Finally, with school behind me for the summer, I’ve been able to get to some reading. First up was catching up on some of the friend/collea...

A few years ago I read a western tale involving the basic trope of settlers versus Indians. Afterward, I checked out the reviews and the wr...

Lana and I left Friday morning for a drive to Atlanta to visit some good friends of hers. It was about seven hours. Lana drove down while ...

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 was the best pure writing day I’ve had since the late summer of 2011 when I was working on Under the Ember Star . ...

A little over three years ago now, on March 21, 2010, my mom died. Even though I was in my fifties and had raised a son of my own, it ...

I read a blog post by another successful independent author today and once more he touted the importance of writing “one” type of story pe...

I told a story here quite a while back about a night when we played Pocola, Oklahoma in football and I made an accidental interception tha...

Today I start trying to get into my summer routine. I'm going to try and do a few things differently this year. I got up this morning an...

From late Thursday through Tuesday morning I spent the majority of time grading, but I’m now 99% done until Friday, when my next test hits. ...

The gradepocalypse is about to begin again. We have six class periods left before finals start, but, unfortunately, I have a lot of senior...

I’ve read a lot in the past few years about terraforming Mars, terraforming Venus. I’ve even been reading about how we might one day have to...

I hear it fairly often: unless there is character development in a story or book then the writer hasn't done his or her job. I don't...

I've been very pleased to see that Under the Ember Sta r has been getting some really good reviews. The latest comes from Chris La Tr...

I used to post every day, then every other day, then about every third day. Now it seems lucky if I get a post in a week. It's not that ...

As I hoped, I was able to put the finishing touches on my collection called Micro Weird: Tiny Tales of the Strange over spring break. It ...

I’ve been good for as long as I could. I’ve got so many unread books around my house, literally a couple of thousand, that I’ve been tryin...

I'm considering this the first day of our Easter vacation. I'm off next week from school. We have a few plans. I'm going up to s...

Sometime in the next few weeks I'm going to self publish a collection of my flash fiction stories under the title MicroWeird: Tiny Tales...