I finally tackled another rewrite of my short story, posted on Johnson.

George Vernon Hudson:

I love him in the Fall,

I hate him in the Springtime...

...when I think of him at all.

Submitted for your consideration, this moment of cranky bitterness.  :-)
Current favorite word:  isometrics
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It doesn't seem all that long ago that being a professional writer was not all that difficult. Yes, it was still a difficult field to break into, but once you did, you were pretty much a part of publishing's bigger picture. I kind of grew up a bit too late to be part of the Maltese Falconish era...

When did I become this dumb? Stupid. Unable to communicate. Where did the brain go and why didn’t it leave a forwarding address? I tried to MapQuest it, but my fat fingers typed in NapWurst. I think that’s a mattress factory in Zurich.

Anyway, I’m on manuscript edit number four and all 81...

A few years ago I was taking pictures along a rocky stretch of the coastal path in Cornwall. A coastguard was yomping the same stretch and stopped to give me a warning. "So far this year we've had to rescue six photographers who fell off the cliff taking pictures," he said. "So you be careful...

I watched What Happened in Vegas over the weekend. I figured with the ever-charming leads of Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher, it was hard to go wrong. The story was light and cute – perfect for wasting time instead of working on my outline.

However, the basic plot bothered me...

Just an excuse to go back to Venice? Well, I had to check the details ...

I didn’t set out to write a book set in Venice. I set out to write a book as different as possible from the one I’d just finished: and as that was boy-orientated comic fantasy for 9-12 year-olds, there was only one...