Words: 0 I was sidetracked by the American Experience documentary on the Native Americans, starting with the Pilgrims vs. the Wampoag. Then I got ready to write, but family intervened and I chatted with my dear sister-in-law for close to an hour. Great conversation, but there went that. Earlier I sat in on A’s cello lesson. His teacher was away in China for six weeks, and just got back last week. She commented that he’s Read more…
Words: 1,410. It was like pulling teeth, and then I made two changes. I told the scene from another character’s perspective, and I asked, “Well, what if she decides she wants to do that?” Boom. Flowage. In the last few weeks, here are the movies I’ve seen: Seven Samurai Silent Running Darkon Taken Bridge on the River Kwai All of them have one thing in common: What does it mean to be a man? In the Seven Read more…
My work blog and my writing blog collided this week: Can print-on-demand save publishing? POD, or print-on-demand, gets conflated with vanity presses all the time. I address that in the blog — if mainstream publishing adopts print-on-demand, they will have to first create a rebranding campaign to make sure that everyone knows that just because something is POD doesn’t mean that it is a vanity press. (Note: yeah, Tales from the Secret City was self-published. But we knew what we Read more…