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Stress and Frustration

Stress and Frustration

It has been one of those weeks. For reasons I cannot share publicly, I’ve been decidedly stressed. Nope, nothing to do with health or writing, save that part of the frustration is that I’ve not been able to get as much writing done as I wanted this week. Certain events and forces beyond my control […]

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Classic Treasures: The Iron Heel by Jack London

Classic Treasures: The Iron Heel by Jack London

I mentioned before that I’d loaded my Sony E-reader up with a bunch of books from Project Gutenberg. Since 1971 volunteers have scanned and proofed uncounted volumes of fiction and non-fiction. That proofing part of the process is very important. The few books I’ve pulled from Google Books tend to have a bunch of OCR […]

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What’s Next?

I didn’t get any writing done today. Last night I did not sleep well. There are times, when working on a book, that insomnia sets in. My subconscious keeps churning away on problems I don’t even realize exist yet. When you’re too tired to get up and work stuff out, and yet too awake to […]

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The Joys of Old Time Science Fiction

Today was a lot of fun. I got to go the Phoenix Skeptics meeting where we do our annual predictions. In 2009 we hit on 83.3% if our predictions. This is down from last year, but we actually predicted correctly that our percentage would be lower than in 2008. Yes, we are just that good. […]

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Bad Moon Rising

Bad Moon Rising John Gorenfeld’s book is subtitled “How Reverend Moon Created the Washington Times, seduced the Religious Right, and Built an American Kingdom. I’m only halfway through, but I’m learning a great deal which is surprising and illuminative—both about the world today and in how a cult moves from fringe to mainstream. I’ve followed […]

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