I woke up this morning. I may not always like the process but I love the fact that it happens. Pretty simple concept, that. I woke up this morning and thought to myself, “It’s Sunday, you can go back to sleep.” Then the alarm on my phone went off, quickly disabusing me of such a…
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It’s fall for sure. Not some half summer, half fall compromise that is October. Nope, we’ve had the leaf stripping, icy winds from the North whipping through the area. Now when it rains, no one mentions that it’s good for their garden or lawn. They just grimace and hope for a break in the clouds.…
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Writers are masters of procrastination. It’s a necessity. Either you have to put off writing until everything aligns and creativity strikes. Or more likely you are putting off other things so that you can write. Writers know that Ben Franklin was right about the “stitch in time”. We don’t want to have to use more…
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I’ve said it often, I am lucky to be a writer. It’s pretty cool that I get to write books and short stories and people actually pay me for them. That’s one part that makes me feel lucky. The other is that I get to do it at all. The odds of getting an agent…
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I should have written something here last week. I should have written something here the week before…but I was off camping and kayaking and being irresponsible. But that was the week before last. Last week I was here. Sitting right here in front of this computer, this monitor, not writing. Don’t get me wrong, I…
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We bought our house twelve years ago after deciding that our two bedroom condo was too small for a family of four. I really wanted a yard for the boys to play in. We looked for a year or so and nothing seemed right. Everything we saw was either a dump or far outside of…
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September’s been busy. If you follow me on Substack you probably have a good idea of what I am talking about. Writing is a lot of work, actually writing is a grind. It’s about showing up and putting the time in. Linking words into sentences, sentences in to paragraphs and paragraphs into pages. Not just…
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I will keep this short today. I’m editing the sequel to Cold Island. There’s a deadline. So I need to go light on blogging this week. The good news is that Episode 12 of the Deported to Sweden podcast dropped yesterday. What is DtS you ask? It’s a podcast where one of my oldest and…
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Twenty-five years ago I went on my first deployment to Kosovo. I was a 27 year old First Lieutenant, prior enlisted soldier, with a lot less experience than I should have had given those facts. The deployment still stands out in my mind. It was a great adventure, where we also felt like we might…
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