I came *this* close to skipping NaNoWriMo this year. Many problems, as I outlined in another post. But I'm still doing it, though co...

Good advice here . I'm far too poor to pay for the right to use song lyrics in my novels. But the rough draft to The Hermit of Iapet...

I have waffled about this for a while, but I have decided not to participate in National Novel Writing Month 2013. Does that make me a wi...

In my first week as Scoutmaster, we got the boys through two activities and didn’t lose a single one of them. First activity: The Hau...

There’s a new video out there by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others urging commoners to get very, very upset about warrantless ...

Twenty-four hours after writing a synopsis of my novel “The Hermit of Iapetus,” I’m having some moments of clarity. Immediately after...

Read the following synopsis and tell me -- and be honest -- would you read this book? I'm planning to use this synopsis to enter a get...

Call it political correctness, call it Big Brother-ish, or call it a lame-o topic for articles (and blog posts, how meta), there is much t...

I don't quite know when this entry will be published, but it'll likely be sometime in September. I don't really know why I...

Somewhat interesting things going on over at Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination, as the wonks there ponder ...