You can read one take about the title here: Sins of the Father; Do Great Novelists Make Bad Parents? by James Woods. A Critic at Large...

What is it this time? You, gentle reader, may be asking. I'm marking time, that's what. Trying to get renewed traction on novel 2,...

As promised, a return to structure. What's going on? Baby Doe is winding up. Waiting for last promised blurbs and straining out the last...

Why this topic? Because Baby Doe probably won't be one of these. Maybe 2021. I may feel like a pregnant woman in late pregnancy: wanting...

A lot has been written about the who, what, and how of getting published. Who knew that even Theodore Roosevelt wrote about this. Not...

In a previous post, I explained the four things I was working on that involved finishing book one in a series and starting the second...

As promised, a return to structure. What's going on? Baby Doe is winding up. Waiting for last promised blurbs and straining out the last...

As the stupid virus makes another resurgence in the world, what’s going on at the nanomolecular level in my novel building? We’re in the...

My Writing buddy just sent me this email. Well, I just finished my nth draft, I don't know if it’s any good, but I do know I put in crazy...

I had to Google it because I was uncertain of the spelling. Here's Mother Google's definition: encomium, paean, panegyric, eulogy....

Neither at chess nor at novel-writing, do I enjoy (nor am I good at) the endgame. You can’t count drafts anymore in the computer age,...

There are choices: lucid and clear or subtle and multifaceted. Lucid and clear doesn’t mean simple. Mr. Hemingway taught that. The modern...

I've got to admit--me and my wife are feeling a little ragged from all this virus lockdown stuff as you can see in the pic. So exercise...

I'm trying to do final editing on my novel, Baby Doe, already past due and post mature. But writing first drafts is so much more fun. ...

I can't resist this stuff. Why didn't they teach this way in school? I'd attribute it to the proper source, but said source is lost in...

I’m in the last throes of reviewing the final (hah!) proofed pdf for Baby Doe. The woke professional proofreader insists on capitalizing...

Why a time out? I'm waiting for Baby Doe, the first novel in the NICU series starring Eli Kurz MD, to come back to me for a last look...

I’m getting to the point of letting Baby Doe go to its (hybrid) publishing home. Should I? Is the novel as good as I can make it? Should...

What does Reading Art mean? You'll see when you watch the video. Now we just need a series called Writing Art. This calls to mind a word...

In my last post (Hardbacks and Bestsellers) I gave an example of one author’s creativity. In the past 24 hours I’ve run across these...