A writer’s curse is his inability to be a fair judge of his own work. Either that, or my just-submitted story for the Halloween Contest of my Codex Writers Group really sucks as badly as I fear. To quote one of the characters: “Lame, lame, lame, lame, lame.” But at least I worked in all […]
Read MoreThere was something else as well upon coming home from school camp. A delivery slip from DHL. The two boxes the delivery guy had attempted to deliver are much more interesting, but I can’t resist mentioning his unique approach to filling out the yellow-and-red notification form. It seems he had trouble entering information into the […]
Read MoreIt may not be the most obvious thing to have learned from Charles Brown, but it turned out to be a very useful lesson nevertheless: the proper pronunciation of ‘Arrrrrg!’ Charlie Brown is editor of Locus Magazine, the essential resource for any speculative fiction writer. Like in 2004, he made an appearance at the Writers […]
Read MoreHad I lived in LA, I would have undoubtedly died in shooting incidents dozens of times over by now. As things stand, the only thing that suffers from events like the one this afternoon is my adrenaline gland and my faith in the human condition. On the upside, I permit myself a slight feeling of […]
Read MoreAt least now I know there is progression in the state of human affairs – at least in the dental aspect of said state. Let me give you a brief history of dental work done in my mouth over the last 32 years. As a child, I had a bunch of cavities. In 1982, the […]
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