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Category: writing
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Fiction vs Nonfiction
Written by Sanford Begley I usually write non fiction. Essays, blog posts, reports and the like. I’ve been doing it to some small extent since school. I do reasonably well, though I usually run it by a friend or two to check it before releasing it into the world. There are usually spelling and punctuation…
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The Snippet is a Lie
So – I had to look up the origin of this meme, although it’s become an injoke with the crowd I hang out with. Even though I don’t game, this seems to work nicely as a life metaphor: the cake is a lie. So is this snippet. Instead, I went diving into my old posts,…
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State of the Writer
Tired. Yesterday I spent literally all day running around with my kids, getting groceries, laundry done… all those little things that you must do when you’ve been away and on the road for eight days. Today, for some reason, I ache. I contemplated just writing in public, this morning. Starting where I’m at in the…
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Here’s the Good Stuff…
While I’m away from keyboard – or home, anyway, since in all honesty I have multiple keyboards with me – I knew I wouldn’t have the time to read and review for the blog. So I asked some friends to give me links to promote their stuff, instead of mine. Or even promoting just one…
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Guest Post: Controlled violence, or things that go Bang
Written by William Lehman Various friends of mine and family have come to me over the years to ask questions like “what type of pistol should I buy? Should I have a shotgun in the house? and variations on this. Seems some folks think I know a bit about the subject. Well after carrying a…
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Are Women Human?
As a girl, I read voraciously. I never cared if the author was male, female, or a complete mystery, I loved characters and stories and mysteries to puzzle out or things to wonder over. I don’t recall when I read my first Dorothy L. Sayers title, although I suspect I was 14 and had found…
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Accusations and Consequences
#hugoaward #sadpuppies R K Modena, a wonderful woman I am proud to call a friend, speaks out on the Hugo controversy, and why it is so much more than a tiny teacup tempest over an award. I’m quoting some of her post here, but really, you should go read the whole thing. It is an amazing memoir…
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It’s not personal, it’s business
First off, I’m tired this morning. Had a wonderful weekend, and I really appreciate friends sharing their vacation with us, it made me feel like I’d gotten away from it all… mostly. Because Peter and Dorothy are in the same industry, so we talked shop while we were touring the USAF museum and then later,…
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What or Why?
Written by Sanford Begley What or Why for a title, is it confusing? Well the subject may be. The question is rooted in life, fiction, and maybe metaphysics. Gordon Dickson postulated in one of his Childe cycle books that the intent behind an action was more important than the actual action. That why you did…
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Monday Morning Links of Interest
I’m looking at my list of things that must be done before we leave later this month to do things, like: get married, see friends and family, travel for a week… It will be a good time. But at the moment, there is a lot of work to be done that will help it all…
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Sometimes it doesn’t work
Having one of those days where things are slightly off-kilter. I’m on the phone with my hosting company and discovering that two years ago when I moved to Ohio and set up a dual site, something was massively FUBARed. We still don’t know what. I certainly don’t know, because evidently what I was told was…
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Reasonable Stocks
I just reread a comfort book. A Louis L’Amour called A Man Called Trent. That was the magazine version of a story he reworked into The Mountain Valley War for a Bantam paperback. There isn’t enough difference between the stories to matter much, though I’m sure there is more material in the paperback version. It…