Halfway through the re-write on the Elvis Sightings sequel, Bigfoot Blues. Floyd hunts a “man” even more elusive than Elvis.
Category: Writing
Z is for Zombie: The Ballad of Shotgun Annie
I just added the latest poem to my book of Zombie themed poetry. My past attempts have been shorter pieces, like limericks and haikus, but with The Balled of Shotgun Annie, I wanted to try my hand at a longer form project. It’s no epic, but I had a lot …
Zombie poetry
Insomnia last night resulted in two new limericks for the zombie poetry book.
Why do I think so dirty when I’m tired?
Elvis Sightings Mystery
My Elvis Sightings sequel has stalled out a bit at 72k words. I blame Christmas cookies. But only three weeks left to finish, and do a re-write, to keep the editor happy. If you’re curious what the book is about, this image is your only clue…
UPDATE: Just crested 78k words and just one chapter left to write!
ClamCase Pro vs. Zagg Folio Keyboard for iPad Air
My iPad goes with me everywhere (well, almost everywhere.) But I often found myself dragging along my MacBook Air as well, because I couldn’t do any writing on the on-screen keyboard. Email or texting, sure, but not real writing. I’d seen lots of the keyboard solutions out there, primarily the …
Military Simulations at I/ITSEC
I just spent the last several days at a training and simulation conference where companies try to sell (mostly) the military a variety of things to help them train their soldiers. It was the first time I’d ever been to an event like this and, to be honest, I was …
Story plotting and writing poetry with Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel is not the first app you would associate with creative writing, but it has become my go to app for thinking through story structure, composing poetry, and doing story outlining. This is how it started. I was working on a proposal that had four major characters, most of …