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Online interview

Randolph Carter* of Grinding to Valhalla interviews me on Wild Cards, gaming, and the craft of writing. Results are pretty good, think I. Please give it a look and, should you feel moved, pass it on.

And speaking of Wild Cards … over on his Not A Blog blog, That American Tolkien Guy reveals the [...]

Experimentation

I’ve always been pretty secretive about my writing. Basically, I’ve always had a lot of self-doubt in the area. Big surprise, huh?

Here’s another:  since I signed onto Twitter perhaps a month ago I’ve wasted a fair amount of time on Tweeting.

But during the terminal phase of the draft of The Dinosaur Lords, as in just [...]

Writing words like pulling teeth

As I near The End, it becomes so.

Teenage dinosaur gang dies trapped in mudflat.

It’s pure avoidance behavior. I know that. There’s that within me, as there is within all of us, that wants very badly for me not to succeed. There’s also that within me that shies away from the load of [...]

The Last Football Post

… at least until the preseason begins.

Actually, this might be my first post on the 2008 season. No matter. Your response, I imagine, ranges from “Huh?” to “Good.” My friends and fans, I’m well aware, predominantly lack any interest in sports, especially the organized variety, if they don’t feel active antipathy toward them. Whether they [...]

On keeping stuff straight

Lately, thanks to the low company I keep (i.e., my fannish friends) (hey, their tastes are low enough they hang out with me) I’ve had a ditty stuck in my mind from an old Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode that featured a Gamera movie:

Gamera is good to eat,
Gamera is full of meat!

Now while the first [...]