Category: Writing

Fiction that rises up to my pen

Poems the few that occur to me

Books that I’ve been reading

Writing Craft

July 4, 2020

Picture from walking trail. The green of leaves and dark trunks accentuated by sunlight so bright that unlit areas are shrouded in mystery. One dark area resolves into a deer.

A journey into a mysterious world. Boulders that moved became deer.

June 21, 2020

They would follow tracks in the snow as soon as the Sun God lightened the morning sky.

June 15, 2020

Garrulous Gabby Hayes, the old-time sidekick

Gabby, you shouldn’t worry about things you can’t control.

April 21, 2020

Vivid lightning bolts in a night sky above trees

The first news from the surface: cold-blooded calculations of hot-blooded suffering.

February 26, 2020

This book assumed that a book-length product, novel or non-fictional narrative was the end goal. Although I am most interested in short stories, most of the discussion was easily applicable to my goal.

Writing 2019

January 24, 2020

Cover of Sep 2019 Maryland Mensa M-Anation

3 stories and 2 essays in Maryland Mensa M-Anation in 2019

Said you were Carrillo on Kurdish

July 17, 2019

If the words said aren

Revision Craft: Word Frequency

June 19, 2019

Python code cools my mind after writing a hot draft.

Best American Essays

April 29, 2019

I can enjoy these essays as well as study the structure the authors used to achieve their effects.

Valley of the Boom

February 24, 2019

National Geographic has a series on the internet browser wars of the mid to late 1990s. I was in commercial software development and remember when I first learned about the internet in 1990. Watching Valley of the Boom brought some forgotten memories back. Email Scrapping The professor for the Pascal class at Johns Hopkins APL…