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We have lost another science fiction writer. Christopher Samuel Youd died on February 3rd at the age of 89 from complications of bladder cancer. I, and many in the world, now him by one of his more famous pennames John Christopher. Other pennames were Stanley Winchester, Hilary Ford, William Godfrey, William Vine, Peter Graaf, Peter [...] I have an undiagnosed fatigue problem, and since the middle of March have been in the midst of a flare-up. The older I get the more flare-ups I get, the worse overall I get. It affects my entire life, including my writing life. I wrote an article about coping mechanisms in Vision: A Resource for [...] Day 14 Wordcount: 3393 (Glint of an Artifact, Short Story #3) And Glint of an Artifact is FINISHED! I was beginning to wonder if it would ever happen, the way the story just kept expanding. It needs work, but that’s what revision is for. And thank goodness for revision! Last night I slept 9 1/2 hours, [...] Not only is this a Monday, it’s also been a horrible allergy day. Ugh, sometimes hard to keep the eyes open, they’re stinging so bad. I didn’t expect to finish an entire short story yesterday. It meant I had to find a new idea to write on today. I found one, a sequel to the [...] “…in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin I think that phrase needs to add, “and uncertainty.” Life changes fast, often broad-siding us from unexpected directions. January has been a month filled with events. I won’t go into the details, but suffice to say that I’m [...] Publetariat is a wonder full free source of information for the Indie author/publisher community. Not only did April L. Hamilton set up a wonderful website that has helped a lot of people, but she has remained open to the community to answer questions and help newbies along as they dip their toes into the new [...] I have never had a will. Even when I was young, this bothered me, to the point I recall once writing something out to give everything to my parents and sister in a school notebook. Now I’m writing up a storm. If something were to happen to me, I want the benefit of my writing [...] Surviving a month doesn’t sound like much, but it is when you’ve been sick two months in a row. I was already run-down from being sick at the beginning of February, and then I caught the bad cold bug that’s been going around. That wiped me out! Unable to go to work for a week, [...] |
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