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Blog for May 2026
May blog, 2026 Blog, I must blog… I have been trying to keep up with things, and now my word program is predicting what I’m going to type next. F* how do I stop that? I hate this program. AI needs to stop trying to help me. I have enough problems without contributing to them. […]
Blog for April of 2026
April blog: What have I been doing?
Blog for February 2026
Feb 1st, 2025 Blog It has been quite a week in our little city and across our whole NC state. First, we got about 4 inches of ice and sleet. It refroze every night, as we had barely seen temps above freezing. Then this weekend, it snowed continuously for about 23 hours. My foot-l
New Year: 2026 post
The trials of these last few months have been rolling around in my head. I have tried to stay positive but… It’s beyond difficult. Maybe all humans are feeling this way. For me, there is another layer, perhaps, and it feels slightly deeper. I see many of the things I have written
Mid-month December blog
This mid-month blog is usually only for my Patreon group, along with many of the things I do. Please feel free to join me there for more interaction with my characters. That would be the ones I write and the ones who are in my membership. Just click here Last post of the year is
November 1, 2025
Hi all. It has been a crazy month. I spent time at a writers’ workshop this month. It was all about getting everything ready to sell my book(s) to an agent. I learned a lot; there was so much information that it has taken weeks to fully understand it. This last week was the scary
Blog October 2025
How is it October? What happened to the year? It feels lost in all of the chaos of the world. Will it ever calm down? I feel like I’m on a freight train barreling down a mountain pass, at full speed and no breaks. I just can’t stand it. Feeling like you are holding onto […]
February 1st Blog
The year of the dragon is gone. It was my year, and boy did things fly high and fast. Power was brought back into my life. Drastic moves were made. My whole life changed yet again. Now we go into the year of the snake, it is time to come home to the ground to […]
A novella
This year I’m starting to explore KindleUnlimited. If you have unlimited please read Sitting Room. Also available: The first two books of the Spec in Time series. Curl up with a hot toddy and have a good read.
New Years Blog
January 2025 2024 has been a year of totally unexpected, life-altering things for me. The challenges and the trust needed to just let the past go and move forward into the unknown have been huge. So much soul-searching has been filling my brain this year, it has been hard to over
November 2024 Blog
How is it November already? This blog is late yet again, for my Patreon peeps (they usually get this a week early). Yes, I know, I said this last month but real life happens. Right now, boxes are being packed, furniture is slowly disappearing, and everything feels disheveled. Luc
September, 2024 Blog
Things, stuff, real life… They all make it difficult to work on words. When you have to get a new dishwasher and have to have service on your wash machine that may also need to be replaced, it all sucks. That is what my life has been like lately. But now, it is a long […]
August Blog
“May you live in interesting times.” The curse of my lifetime. If I had a dime for every time someone said ‘your life has been so interesting, you should write a book.’ How about six? Okay, these books are not about my life, they’re Spec’s life. But right now, everyone can say th
July 2024 Blog
It’s July first, and life is a speeding rocket ride. The fireworks are an apropos analogy for my life right now. For me, it has been full of joy, wonder, excitement, fear, duck and cover, shock and so many more ooo’s and ahhhh’s. So, I have a lot of plans going forward. I will ne
My google search trouble
As you can imagine, I spend a lot of time asking the great oracle questions that might be a bit odd. Today was trying to find something similar to a sporran, as I just didn’t feel that was the right item to give the visual I wanted. too furry. As always I went to my […]
May 2024 blog
I did something completely different this month. I wrote a quick short story. It took me longer to post it into the Kindle Vella program than it did to write it. Okay, not really but it sure did feel like it. I know nothing of this program, it seems like a good spot to put […]
Blog for April fools
Yeah, getting fooled is fun. We need to love good jokes and pranks. Creative and smart ones are always the best. It would be easy to get me this week as sleep has continued to be elusive. I’m becoming used to the emptiness and the quietness of the house without Sammy and Gandalf,
January is done. Look out February!
January is done. Look out February! THE DOMES is now for sale! That’s one gigantic item checked off my list. YEP, book #2 has been freed into the world. I have struggled writing this month, it’s not that I’m doing nothing. My time has been used to get The Domes uploaded into all
The Domes is Available
The Domes is now available – It’s time to read about your favorite Freaks and Geeks again. Spec and her team have so much to do in such a short time. Phase two must be completed quickly before the earth’s scheduled maintenance. Are you as excited as I am? Wow. That was easy…Oka
January 2024 Update Blog
The author expresses relief and joy at completing book two, “The Domes,” and plans for its release. Winter inspires more writing for another project, and a plea for peace in Ukraine.
Domes almost done!
The layout is all done. The page numbers worked on the third try, can you believe that? I can’t. Page numbers last time was nearly a three night project. Now, did I have to change my header because of that… but it turned out much better anyways. Sometimes limitations are a good t
November Wrap-up and on to the end
December 1, 2023 blog Here it is, the last blog of 2023. I made it through the pain of the final Dome edits. I’m in the middle of my final read-through, and that of a friend, to see what else needs to be tightened up. Domes is slightly smaller in word count, slightly is the […]
Leaving a site. Not this one.
Okay, I have done my best to do NaNoWriMo this year. It’s not that I can’ t write enough on book three; even with being in the middle of editing book two. I’m almost done with that. I do want to finish it up soon. Maybe even in the next 4 days. That is over […]
Word count Nov. 1
The totally useless and not trustworthy word count: The Domes, Book #2 of A Spec in Time series The Domes is through its editing! The totally useless and not trustworthy word count: At this point is:?? Now: This is what you are missing: Patreon Page Inception, Book #3 of A Spec i
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together
I truly believe that there is a part of every author, in every character they write. That seems true as for how I’ve built mine. Ultimately, I think we cannot create a being without creating ourselves. Physically or mentally. It’s not because we are that egotistical, though it’s
September 2023 wrap-up. Domes and more.
The Domes has now moved into the process of deep edits, and the proofing nazi. I need to say that I’m NOT, pulling my hair out this time. I am not concerned. It gets a little stressful because it is being done in small sections. Proofing during Harvesters was so stressful that I
Done? Yes.
Outside of one math problem, a glossary, edit suggestions, proofing, and lay out. The Domes, book two of the Spec in Time Series is done.
The Domes up-date 9-1-23
It has been an exciting space week. It was great to see the Chandrayaan-3 made a successful landing in the southern region of the moon. The first photos are now on the web, and great to see. The Russians were not so successful. I hear and have read a lot of ha ha’s about that […]
Did you know – you can help?
Would you like to see me go to the mountains for a week next month? This trip would be used to get a good start on book three, while book two is in final editing. If so, please join my Patreon page so you can have more updates on each books’ progress. Also, cute photos […]
The Domes update 8-1-23
Creativity verses Fantasy. Do I live in a fantasy world? Am I just overly creative? Where does imagination fit in? When does it become pathological? These are the questions that floated through my head this morning over tea. They have come and gone before, but for some reason tod
7-1-23 Update on The Domes – A Spec in Time
Blog for July 1st Cartography is the study and practice of making and using maps. Maps, lunar maps to be specific have been filling my life. I’m working though some details that have been left blank and highlighted in yellow. Yellow means – hey, lookie here, you left something im
The Domes update 6-01-23
This whole month has felt like a knife stabbing into my side. I have had a lot of downs and very few ups. I feel like a lot went bad or as I call it: sideways. I feel as if I have done nothing in the pages of this book. I also know that to […]
The Domes update 5-01-23
Stage 1 (barfing) is done. Stage 2 (crafting) is well on its way… oh that’s the hard part. I have taken many of those rough sections of barf and have crafted them into much goodness. Subjects, raw thoughts, and ideas. Layouts of the important parts of the dialog have been expande
I’m too excited
I don’t want to do life. No, that is not a cry for help. I have no time to jump off a bridge. I just don’t want to do anything but work on the story. I don’t want to clean, walk, eat, or see people. I want to be left alone. Yet there are jobs, […]
The Domes update – April
It’s done. April fools. The Domes – the second book of the Spec in Time series – is actually more done than I thought it would be at this point. All of that aforementioned puke of ideas and possible dialog is done. What is amazing is that I already have around 80% of that word […
Domes update for March 1st
It is March. It was a crazy February for the next book. Domes got a huge amount added to it. At this point, all of the parts and pieces are in place. All the extra notes have been removed, along with the stuff I mistakenly put in twice. Then there were the sections that I […]