Faith, hope, and clarity

by | May 29, 2013 | Writing

Orson Scott Card in an interview about writing, on wise readers: These boil down to belief, concern, and clarity — or, to help readers of the Pauline epistles remember it, faith, hope, and clarity. And the greatest of these, as Paul said, is clarity. The wise reader...

Retrieving XyWrite files

by | Jan 14, 2013 | Writing

Yep, that’s what I’m going to be doing this week–retrieving files I wrote using XyWrite, which was a fabulous word processing program written by some of the guys that brought you Atex, the typesetting system I learned in the early 1980s. I went...

Hooray for showers!

by | Jan 4, 2013 | The Catmage Chronicles, Writing

Showers are fantastic plotting aids. Just figured out a major linchpin for Book 2 that will make things a lot easier (for me, anyway) for the rest of the series. And added a bit more to the ending. Although Scrubs is actually hindering me in my plotting. Book 2 is...

A published author

by | Oct 13, 2012 | The Catmage Chronicles, Writing

So I am now a published author, something I’ve been working towards, well, just about my entire adult life. As of 11 p.m. Saturday, I’ve sold exactly six copies–five trade paperback and one Kindle edition. And you know, I’m about as proud of...