I was up kinda late last night, thinking about what I’d write about today.  No…make that over thinking about what to write.  So I didn’t actually fall asleep until around midnight.  After the fact, I probably should of gotten up and just wrote this damn post, but I didn’t, and now it’s 9:30 A.M. and [...]

Sorry everyone, but no more whining and complaining on Mondays, which means the Weekly Whine has officially retired. I have to thank Mary Martinez on Mysteries and Margaritas in her post Mary’s Rants – Take the whine out of writing. Basically, complaining gets us nowhere, so I’m shifting my Monday focus to the positive. What [...]

If I don’t get a question from one of my readers, I look for questions on other people’s blogs. This week I found a list of questions on Candace’s Book Blog, a new blog I added to my read list a couple weeks ago. Click here for Candace’s answers. Here are my answers to the [...]

Well, it finally came round to me, the Creative Writer Blogger Award by my buddy C.J. Ellison.  Thanks C.J.! I’ve seen this on a lot of other blogs and I have to admit I’ve been dreading it coming to me.  This is an award, but it seems more like one of those chain emails I [...]

I use a trick I learned from Stephen King in his book, On Writing.  At least that’s where I think I found the idea.  I use the old paper version of the phone book.  It’s the only use I have for it anymore.  If I need an actual telephone number, the first place I look [...]