Just running through the things on my mind: -Downloaded the Kindle App for the iPhone today. It was free. Love the idea, but can't read it for long stretches at a time. Be good for a ride on the PATH or sitting and waiting for something, but it's not a thing where I can read 100 pages and not go bli...

Mickey Spillane and Historical Revision. I wrote this opening to a pulp detective story and would have used it in a novel had I been Mickey Spillane in the 1940s: There in the dimly lit garage she leaned against the doorway, her eyes saying come hither. But the gun in her hand told me to stay away. ...

Been a while since I've done a writing post, but since I believe in talking about the process, I thought I'd pop in on my progress with the next book. I'm in the middle of the fourth draft of the book, and it's proving to be a major re-write. That's fine, I'm really excited about it. But at the same...

Edits continue to be not as bad as I'd expected. There are still places where the voice takes me by surprise. Story-wise, it's not the strongest thing I've ever produced, but voice-wise? I *am* a 15-yr old chess nerd. On which note, I will segue to the great Facebook adventure, wherein mostly I've f...

The Race The 34th Annual race will be help March 21, 2009 If the race organizers were to set up several dozen treadmills down the main street of Moab and set them to 13 miles and call it the race, I think I would still go. There is a reason this race is 31-years-old with a lottery to get in. The rea...

Still less painful than expected. I've got two places where I should insert material but I think I should finish the first pass before writing that material, so as to avoid overlap. But still, nothing so painful that I was shamed to have written it. Foot is still inexplicably painful. If it is not b...

I've been struggling with illness this week and a severe lack of energy that has left me watching a lot of True Blood and Supernatural episodes. The impact on revising Rebuilding Retehoro has been regretful yet unavoidable. I would only have been torturing myself further if I had tried more than the...

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It can be common for many triathletes to go for a run in the morning, a bike ride in the afternoon, and finish the day with a swim in the evening. The next day you might find the typical active family skiing, or boarding, or hiking  in the mountains. So what's the best car for active amate...

How do I expand my novel without adding useless verbiage? My first novel draft (yay!) is crappy, but still much, much better than I expected, and was tremendous fun to write. The draft has just about 50.000 words, though. This would be a problem for publication; more importantly, it seems that somet...