Category Archives: WRITING

In editing today I found that I’m as guilty of the telling vs. showing as the worst of ’em, and in a rather odd way that I can only describe as copping out. Here’s a sentence: There was something magically … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So the excitement at seeing the story online-submission go from "reading" to "second read" made me proud and gave me hope. And I tried not to login every day to check the progress. Then suddenly it went to "final read" … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The question was never one of going, but if he’d take Betina with him when he went. He puzzled over this every now and then while working over the years, in between the days of gloriously exhausting sex and the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

…nothing ventured, nothing gained. Though I couldn’t avoid a few more tweaks, had to send out Immortality to one of the lit journals just because. Continue reading →

It’s probably because I’ve been doing nothing but revising and editing the same two stories every day for weeks now that I’m getting, well, sick of it all. There comes a point in editing your own stuff when you work … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Yes indeedy; the red bettas that I’ve introduced as a reinforcing metaphor at the end of a story have decided they like being there and have led the story onward into no-man’s land. Now it’s a case of cutting them … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Saddled with a splitting headache, I spent most of yesterday on the couch with the laptop determined to get some writing done. I found that unless I was going to write about the pounding hammer of pain in my brain, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Flash of insight time: Went back to transfer the below story beginning into either Pages or Storyspace and realized that since I already know the story, there’s no purpose to writing it! Completely lost interest. Every writer implements a different … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Ooo-ooo-ooo!  Just found a very minor help but one nonetheless on the piece referenced in the prior post: take the "sand" out of "sandcastle" and it still has obvious meaning yet frees the phrase up a bit. Sometimes editing gets … Continue reading → Continue reading →

With submissions opening up at several of my favorite literary journals, I’ve been working, working, working (translation: editing and revising and stabbing a brutally sharp knife into its bowels) on a story that’s close to being done. Close, but there’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

If it’s good enough to publish, please let them see that is about the most I dare to ask a God I don’t know is even there or listening and besides, I’ve asked Him sixty years’ of favors thrown away … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I read the poetry of a friend and email back: Quick quick first read: what changed in you that brought about this? I see a depth in these that just was not in anything I’ve seen from you before! More … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In my next life I want to be a middle-of-the-roader, easygoing, practically oblivious would be okay. The up and down of my typical Scorpio personality is greying me before my time and yet the lowest lows are bearable and the … Continue reading → Continue reading →