Second Quarter 2023 GOALS Check
We’re halfway through the year and it’s time to see how I’m doing on my goals. Below is my full list, but let’s do a quick overview first. WRITING: Goals 1 – 3. This is a bit tricky to determine …
We’re halfway through the year and it’s time to see how I’m doing on my goals. Below is my full list, but let’s do a quick overview first. WRITING: Goals 1 – 3. This is a bit tricky to determine …
Writing is such an individual journey with so many individual styles. Take music, for example. When I write, I need quiet. Music is too distracting for me. Music may change moods in the middle when I need to concentrate on …
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I love my two habanero plants, Richard and Nicole. But recently they’ve developed a tiny problem. APHIDS! I thought aphids only attacked roses, BUT NOOOOOO! (Anyone hearing this in John Belushi’s voice?) These little buggers primarily attack the flower buds, …
People have this image of a writer spending his time locked up in his basement typing away. And while there is a lot of that – personally, sitting at my desk in the corner of my bedroom underneath my “My …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knp9-GY6fHE Sunday, May 21st was our 34th wedding anniversary. Like we did for many years, usually the weekend before our anniversary, we went the California Strawberry Festival in Oxnard. http://castrawberryfestival.org/ This was the first time the Strawberry Festival has been …
Until our niece, Annie in Riverside told us about it, we had never heard of Comic Con Revolution https://www.comicconrevolution.com/ontario/?utm_source=CCR+Ont+Attendees&utm_campaign=a36090b444-CCR23-052023&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e3bb3bf536-a36090b444-128066380&mc_cid=a36090b444&mc_eid=196940ccea in Ontario, California. It was held last weekend, May 20th and 21st. For a con I had never heard of, in …
Dennis is not in this week. He and Kris are celebrating their 34th wedding anniversary weekend. Yesterday they spent the day at Comic Con Revolution in Ontario, California. Today they are at the California Strawberry Festival in Ventura, California. I’m …
I’m in two critique groups, one for novels and one for screenplays. My novel group met yesterday and chapters 4 and 5 of my first steampunk novel were up. The great thing about being in a critique group is that, …
I took Thursday and Friday off work this week. A lot of my fellow coworkers told me to enjoy my days off. Yeaaaaahhh… Thursday was car repair day. I needed to get some work done to pass a smog check. …
It was time for the 39th annual “L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards Dinner”. I had heard much of this event, and this year Dennis invited me to be his guest along with Kris. The decorations …