An extremely short story inspired by one of Chuck Wendig’s flash fiction challenges:  write a story about “irregular creatures.”  For some reason, trying to come up with an idea for this stuck in my craw…I tried out all kinds of things over the course of this week.  Yesterday, waiting for my daughter to get out […]

I try to say something that makes Ray laugh every time I drop her off at school.  I don’t plan these things, I just babble. Today, she said, “Well, mother?” I tried to push her out of the car, but no luck. So I said, “Well, actually, I don’t feel like going anywhere today, so

Okay, this isn’t really a book review.  This is really personal, self-serving blather.  The actual book review is this: Cate Gardner’s collection of short stories makes me incredibly jealous, so jealous, in fact, that I had to put the book down and walk away several times.  It’s as though a modern-day woman had picked up

I have theories.  Some people, they don’t have theories; they just write.  But I have theories. To me, fantasy is psychology. When you decide what a story is about (the theme, if you will), you gather information by reading the story, getting a synopsis of the story, or listening to someone else’s analysis of the

I haven’t been working on a lot of new writing lately, and it’s just killing me, or at least giving me sinus infections. I had a number of things that were all supposed to happen in January/February that haven’t.  They’ve been delayed, I’ve delayed them (in one case, due to a bad idea that I

I found out that I’m mentioned in the March/April 2011 issue of Writer’s Digest. I mean, it’s not a huge deal – they have an article on ghostwriting in there, and the company I wrote Choose Your Doom:  Zombie Apocalypse for, League Entertainment, is in there, and CYD:ZA is mentioned, with myself and Dante Savelli

Poem: No new poems.  1 rejection, 2 rejections total. Short Stories: Wrote: Open All the Doors (F) The Person who Put Down the Keys (SF) Inappropriate Gifts (F/H) Treif (F/H) (just finished.  Haven’t sent out yet) Published: No new stories published.  One story, “Miracle, Texas,” accepted by Nil Desperandum. Rejections: 7 for February 21 for

I had a dream last night that I was back at an old job, two jobs ago (there were several people there from one job ago, but hey, it was a dream). There was a big party going on for something or other at work (that job was all about throwing parties for no apparent

You can hate me if you like. Ever since I started freelancing, Sunday nights have not gotten any better; I still dislike them.  They’re all about not doing something, and instead getting ready for Monday. But I like Mondays now.  It’s this chance to reassess where I am, freelancing, and kind of start all over