March 13, 2016 Accepting Praise with Grace Perihelion Online Science Fiction Magazine likes my novel, Under Strange Suns. No, really. Check out the review. And that’s good. It warms the outer crust of my black, stony lawyer’s heart. But it also makes me squirm a bit. I don’t receive praise well. Stupid, isn’t it? Someone… Continue reading Accepting Praise with Grace. Resurrected Post.
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Keep the Story Moving. How Hard Could it be? Resurrected Post.
March 6, 2016 Keep the Story Moving. How Hard Could it Be? Elmore Leonard’s “10 Rules for Good Writing” offers the sage tip “Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.” Wisdom indeed. The problem is that readers are people, and people remain stubbornly unwilling to agree on anything. Including which parts… Continue reading Keep the Story Moving. How Hard Could it be? Resurrected Post.
Transition. Resurrected Post.
February 28, 2016 Transition My comfort zone is one of routine. I function best in conditions of familiarity and habit. That isn’t to say I dislike a change of pace or scene, but I think it safe to say that Vacation Ken, for example, is less efficient and sharp than Comfort Zone Ken. My… Continue reading Transition. Resurrected Post.
Sniff, Sip, Scribble, Repeat. Resurrected Post.
February 21, 2016 Sniff, Sip, Scribble, Repeat Once again I interrupt this web log’s regular programming to write about beer. Yesterday McMenamin’s Hillsdale Pub hosted the annual competition among the kingdoms of the McMenamin’s brewing empire. I dutifully sat down with taster trays and ballots and notepad. Below is a transcript of my tasting notes,… Continue reading Sniff, Sip, Scribble, Repeat. Resurrected Post.
Pacific Northwest Coastal Thoughts. Resurrected Post.
February 14, 2016 Pacific Northwest Coastal Thoughts Good — even great — writers develop and thrive in every climate and every locale. I’m not going to pretend they don’t. But, as I’m writing this in my hotel room on the beach in the Pacific Northwest Coast, I’m going to ignore all that pesky reality and… Continue reading Pacific Northwest Coastal Thoughts. Resurrected Post.
Sick Day. Resurrected Post.
Styles. Resurrected Post.
January 31, 2016 Styles I’ve nearly completed re-reading “The Worm Ouroboros,” E.R. Eddison’s underappreciated masterpiece. It is a mine worth delving into again, its depths not fully plumbed, its treasures still unmeasured. If I haven’t made myself clear, I love it. The villains are Shakespearean, complex and fascinating. The heros are Homeric, grandly larger than… Continue reading Styles. Resurrected Post.
Westercon 69, Dude. Resurrected Post.
January 24, 2016 Westercon 69, Dude I received an invitation to serve as a panelist at Westercon 69. Westercon is a regional science fiction convention, held in a different city west of the Rockies each year. For 2016 Portland took the honors. How convenient. Once again I will dilute the quality of the pool of… Continue reading Westercon 69, Dude. Resurrected Post.
The Great Garrett Reread Begins.
Rereading LOTR engenders a warm, comforting contentment. Rereading Garrett offers a sense of rightness, of completion. One is coming home, the other is going to the pub. Each appeals. The Garrett books were…influential. I won’t say foundational, since I didn’t start reading them until college. But once I started I didn’t look back, picking up… Continue reading The Great Garrett Reread Begins.