Portal Dumbness
I've been under the weather, so the wife fired up an old BBC series we hadn't seen that had portals and dinosaurs in it. I'm a sucker for...
I've been under the weather, so the wife fired up an old BBC series we hadn't seen that had portals and dinosaurs in it. I'm a sucker for...
Others had it worse, but the Freeze of 2021 wasn’t fun for us, either. I feel like it’s a touchy subject because I got lucky and I had...
We honor the dead on Memorial Day, but they’re here to remind us every day. We forgive on Forgiveness Day, but we should be doing that...
It’s time to put a bubble in your ear. Everybody misses their friends. Seeing all of them would increase the risk of infection for...
Depending where you live, we’re one to two weeks into the social distancing. We need to stick to the plan, but also people need to...
Last week, I caught wind that an author I’d met long ago had their books stolen and put for sale on a pirate site. They had the situation...
We’ve got a site, email, social media, now what? The person you’re most likely to influence is one you’ve connected to by talking to...
I'm in my PJs after a long cold night at Steampunk November. I've got to pack and get back out there for Sunday's festivities. But I...
Do you ever wish you had the ear of the engineers of a product you use. You could whisper ideas and suggestions based on your experience...
I used to think I was pretty good at writing. I could turn out a clever phrase and churn out pages of readable content.Then I started...
What can you do when you are 400 words short of the word count requirement in a story? A writer friend asked that this week, so I took a...
I was looking for Alexa articles to read, when I came across one from the Irish Times. The author gives a good chiding in what I...
Imagine, if you will, upgrading your house, making it better, faster, smarter. Then one day, nothing works, because a vendor’s server is...
Ever want to make something work, and dig into it deeper than anybody else? And then, you find the secret, the thing that other people...
People ask me questions, because I’m a Know-It-All. I try to be a good one and share what I know, what I can deduce, and admit what I...
I’ve done pretty well recruiting a team of volunteer beta readers. Like me, they’re all busy, so out of eleven readers, only two or...
In the novel I’m writing, technomage Alex Rune uses a hacked version of Siri-like technology to cast spells. After checking with my...
This FAQ is aimed at new writers and thus I’ve captured the kinds of questions I see most often plus a few I think should have been asked....
Everybody gets criticism. And many of us don’t receive it as well as we would like to. That’s the diplomatic way of saying we bollox...