

Timing the Editing
Someone At Work, by Rinzing Yongewa So, I sent a simple mystery, where a body is in a trash pit behind the inn, for editing. Simple line...


Counting Pennies!
My Most Frequent Reaction to the Discovery of Other People I got a notification from KDP that the platform is about to give me a whole...
Modern Mystery Series and What Makes Me Side-eye Them
I want to start out with reassurance: Everything I am complaining about, or just observing, is said out of love. I don't hate 'tropes' or...

On Outlining: When You Find Your Interest Flagging
The Outliner Considering I've been giving some thought to the common complaint of pantsers that they cannot write an outline and then...
On Entering Contests and Finding A Group
The local writing group held a flash fiction contest. That's kind of when you do what Kurt Vonnegut said of his aliens' fiction: catch a...
So, What do We Do With A Short Story?
I got two anthologies from a library sale. They are both fifty to forty years old (like me,) so that gives an interesting range of short...
New Story In the Offing!
I've decided to track my new story by excel spreadsheet. Nanowrimo does have a lovely word counter, and I like to use it. I know there...
The Outline Blues: Too Specific for My Story
I'm a plotter. An architect writer, a planner, an outliner, whatever you want to call we who write out the plot of the story before...
'The First Charge' Finally Has A Paperback Edition
A year back I went through my old books and made them...book-like. Table of Contents, copyright page, all those normal book things. Yes,...
Why Are We Punishing the Chickens?
I was grocery shopping this morning and reached for some chicken breasts. Then I stopped cold and scowled. The banner across the chicken...