Friday, February 28, 2014

One Hit Wonders: The Rockers

This will probably be my last post about music for a while. Below are some of my favorite rock songs by bands that really only had one song...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Metal versus Rock 5: Southern Rock

When I started putting together my list of top ten favorite hard rock songs I ran into a problem. I had a lot more than ten. However, I foun...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Metal versus Hard Rock 4

Picking numbers 6 through 10 of my favorite hard rock songs proved very difficult. So, I ended up making a further division of favorites. B...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Metal versus Hard Rock 3:

Here are the first five songs from my favorite Hard Rock list. Certainly there are many other good songs that might fall into my top five un...
Monday, February 17, 2014

Heavy Metal Versus Hard Rock: Part 2:

Here are metal songs 6 through 10 for me. Ty pointed out that his list would change with his mood and that is true of me as well. This is m...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Heavy Metal Versus Hard Rock, Part 1:

I have  discussions on occasion with folks about what constitutes the difference between Heavy Metal and Hard Rock. I love both genres, but...
Saturday, February 08, 2014

Charles Gramlich Versus Charles Allen Gramlich: Grudge Match

            I just realized that Amazon has a Charles Allen Gramlich Author Page, and a Charles Gramlich Author page. The Charles Allen Gr...
Thursday, February 06, 2014

Gods of Talera

The fifth book in the Talera series, Gods of Talera , is now underway. This is a direct sequel to Wraith of Talera , which I wrote last yea...
Monday, February 03, 2014

The Perils of Professing

Oh, the things we teachers sometimes say. Without intent. I was talking about evolutionary concepts in my comparative psychology class the ...
Friday, January 31, 2014

Dream stories: A Dangerous Walk

I’ve talked about my dreams quite a bit here, and about how I’ve used scenes and imagery from them in a lot of stories.  I’ve said that man...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Inhabiting Your Setting

  Actors sometime talk about “inhabiting” a character. As near as I can tell, they mean that they try to get inside the skin of the charact...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

A Taleran Language Lesson

When Wraith of Talera is published, sometime this year, I hope, it will contain a fairly extensive glossary of Taleran places, races, mytho...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

The Dark and Stormy Night Effect

Everyone knows the phrase: "It was a dark and stormy night." Those of us who are writers often get a little chuckle out of it. But...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Talk Scheduled on January 25

On Saturday, January 25 th , I’ll be giving a presentation on generating suspense in fiction at the Biloxi Library from 2:00 to 4:00 pm. Th...
Thursday, January 09, 2014

School Almost in Session

Faculty meetings yesterday. That makes for an official first day of school for us teachers. Today and tomorrow mark registration and classes...
Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Dreams of Talera

Although I have some big projects coming up soon that will prevent me from finishing Gods of Talera, the sequel to Wraith of Talera, I'v...
Friday, January 03, 2014

First Blog of 2014

Only a few more days of break and then back to school on January 8. I’m already working on syllabi, of course, and hope to have them done b...
Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Last Blog of 2013

Like some novels I’ve read, 2013 started out pretty good, sagged seriously in the middle, then picked up toward the end. Not the greatest y...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

2013 Word Count

For the first time ever, I kept records of how many words I wrote professionally this year. This is not counting blog materials, facebook w...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

Books that have Stayed with Me, Part 3

Here's the last installment of Books that have Stayed with Me: 9. Never Cry Wolf, by Farley Mowat. I was assigned to read this book...