Tag Archives: Reading
Magic for Libraries, Lockdowns, and Just because
When this whole pandemic thing took off, the lockdowns in California were as bellicose as perhaps anywhere else. I for one, did not take to it very well, and judging by the societal trajectory that I see at the moment … Continue reading
Spoilers. You might think you’re immune, but you’re not
I just had a short conversation with my 15 year-old daughter about a particular book she’s reading. I will refrain from saying what that book is, because I have to discuss a minor event in it–or should I say the … Continue reading
Catatonic reading trauma
I’m not sure what kind of cerebral scarring I have, but . . . There is a very real similarity between that form of hypnotic narcolepsy that sets in when I’m driving a mundane highway in the small hours, and … Continue reading
Peripatetic blogging and the start of a novel
I’ve got a novel in my head. And I’m going to start discussing it in the general, even if I avoid the specifics. A while back, I wondered about the idea of sharing snippets of a novel on the blog. … Continue reading
My Amazon purchase: SOMEBODY! KILL IT WITH FIRE!
For the next little while, you will intermittently be hearing about my fascination with author Stant Litore’s Zombie Bible Series. And for a minute here, you’re going to hear about it again, although, not exactly the way I had intended … Continue reading
Comments, re-blogging, and the gratuitous traffic grab
Any engaged writer that has ever sat and Googled “How can increase my blog traffic” soon realized: the sites you are sent to did the same thing once and figured out that making a blog about increasing web traffic does … Continue reading
And . . . book . . . STARTED!
A couple of posts ago, I stated that I had the idea for a non-fiction book–to wit: An academic satire; a good-natured Manchurian bloodletting of a humorless subject–but one in which I repair most of the wounds at the end. … Continue reading
Step Number two: Come up with an idea. Um, NOW might be helpful.
I had no intention of posting a follow up to the “possibly getting published” post from the other day. But then I realized. I’ve been writing for different things for years. I’ve been published in things that saw regionally-limited circulation. … Continue reading
How to become a schizophrenic with one reading app
I never in my life ever expected humanity’s ever-increasing appetite for acceleration to come to the point that the very act of reading would become a veritable Asperger’s simulation chamber. But it’s happened. Don’t believe it? Peep this app: I … Continue reading
Master Of None 