Total words: 562Manuscript total: 5,670 This morning, I slept in until 6:30am — highly unusual for me — and instead of jumping into my day’s to-do-list as I drank my first cup of coffee, I did something else unusual. I sat on the couch, and I watched the sunlight play Read more…
Yesterday, for the first time in my life, someone asked me, “What are your preferred pronouns?” I was sitting outside a Starbucks with my girlfriend, chatting about types of hot peppers, when one of her mom-friends walked out of the Starbucks with another mom, their two toddlers in tow. “LT!” Read more…
I got a one-star review yesterday for Reverie. It’s the first time in four lesfic titles I’ve gotten one. And before I go any further, I just want to say: I don’t mind. It’s okay and I’m not upset. I wrote recently about how I believe that art isn’t static Read more…
It started with an image: which I found while tooling around the Internet with family last Christmas (Christmas 2016). I had just published To Have Loved & Lost a month earlier, and had written a couple tentative chapters of Anika takes the long way home up soul mountain, but… But Read more…
It’s not yet eight o’clock in the morning as I write this, and so far, my day has gotten off to a completely ordinary start. I woke up a little after six, read for a few minutes, stumbled into the kitchen to start my coffee, did some basic exercises while Read more…
While visiting my lovely girlfriend in California (and how it came to pass that I’m living on the East Coast with a girlfriend on the West is another story entirely, one you wouldn’t believe if I told you), I lost my sunscreening privileges after badly burning myself on a trip Read more…
I think this parable might originally be Taoist. I can’t actually remember where I heard it. Here’s how it goes: Once there was an old man who lived in a village with only his son, who was known by the other villagers to be particularly wild and restless and insubordinate. Read more…
[feature_box style=”7″ only_advanced=”There%20are%20no%20title%20options%20for%20the%20choosen%20style” alignment=”center”] This is a new part of my blog — I’m calling it Productivity for Writers. Each post will be geared for writers, rather than readers, and focus on how we writers can write more and better by improving both the quantity and quality of our productivity. Read more…
Oh, friends. You should chastise me. You really should. I was on top of things for a while there, getting back into a good routine of writing my thousand-word minimum every day, and then… I fell off the wagon. There’s something I need to explain to you about writing, and Read more…
Hi guys. I got to reading some stuff on Facebook recently that got me to thinking about how much suffering there can be during the holidays, and how this suffering disproportionately affects LGBTQ people. We have lots of reasons for that, like dealing with the incessant undercurrents of homophobia, families who Read more…