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Moral Rights
A Friend Reminded Me… That I had not yet talked about moral rights in the Bite-Sized Copyright class. He did not intend to, just sent me a great moral rights topic letter., So I just finished recording that for Monday morning. Basics, but considering most writers don’t even understand copyright or licensing, I had to keep it basic. And nope, will not explain it here. Google is your friend for the basics. It is also in the Copyright Handbook which you should own. Keeping it short this Friday night because after three full days now of my new exercise routine, I am beat up. Tonight I did 4 miles around…
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Started Another Streak
I Have a Monster Streak Going… That is the one I wrote about blogging every night here for over 11 straight years without a miss. So I know how to do a streak successfully. And over the years I have started a lot of streaks and challenges for myself. Some are writing streaks like a short story a day for over a hundred days that I did in 2022. That was fun. And I have started a ton of streaks that just went nowhere for one reason or another. Mostly I gave them no power, or they had no end goal. I think a solid goal is maybe the most…
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A Really Fun and Great Thing…
Writer David H. Hendrickson Runs for A Great Cause… Award-winning mystery writer and regular contributor to Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, David H. Hendrickson has decided to run the New York City Marathon in early November. Now some of you might remember that in my last half-marathon in February here in Vegas, Dave had already finished and because I was having back issues, came back for me and helped me get through the finish line, to a medical tent, and then to the car. Dave is amazing and he just completed a Half Iron Man race. That just hurts my head. Dave is running the full New York Marathon and he is…
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Exercise and Weight Challenge
I Started July 1st… So today, Saturday July 15th, is the start of the third week. Time to check in with myself and reset some. My overall goal was to lose 20 pounds by October 1st. And be back running solidly most if not all of a 5K. I had been stuck on this weight for most of two years, and not willing to make the drastic changes it took to move off it, both in food and exercise. What I needed was to do both. So switched my diet to healthy stuff only (fruits, veggies, protein), dropped drinking diet drinks of any kind, drank a lot of water, and…
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A Fun Run and Updates
6 AM is Stupidly Early… Especially when you go to bed at 2 AM. It is still dark at 6 AM. And yet off we went to be at a park before 7 on the other side of town for a charity run that honors Prince. Now I did some running early on in the 5K and then just said, “Nope.” Walked the rest of the way. But we had a wonderful breakfast afterward at a restaurant we almost never get to because it is so far from our place. And I got my remaining four hours of sleep after I got home. The Case Card Kickstarter campaign is doing…
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The Promised Running Post
I Finished… It was not pretty, but I finished and that is all that counts. A number of days back I did a post about finishing the 5K on Saturday in cold and wind and stunning amounts of rain. What I didn’t mention that was when I got home after a fun dinner with Lisa and Ron Collins and Brenda and Dave Hendrickson, four hours had gone by and when I took my shoes off, there was a puddle on the floor and my socks were soaking wet. And worse yet, my feet looked like prunes and all my carefully built-up protection from blisters was gone. Now, I am stunningly…
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An Accomplishment…
Finished a 5K in Nasty Cold Wind and Rain and Sleet! And yes, still planning the half marathon tomorrow. Went by our condo twice on this. Would have been easy to just say, “Enough.” I actually got 13th out of 23 runners in the 70-74 age group. Considering that I walked most of the way, very pleased that I even finished. 5,000 plus people signed up, only 23 men around my age group even participated. Does that tell you something about the lack of exercise and conditioning of people, let alone writers in general. No wonder so many writers die so young. So here are a bunch of pictures from…
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Special Stretch Goal and Running Pictures
SPECIAL STRETCH GOAL.350 BACKERS!!! If the New Diving Novel Kickstarter campaign reaches 350 backers by Sunday, February 28th at midnight West Coast Time, every backer of any reward will get a free ebook copy of the brand-new THE DIVING UNIVERSE NOTEBOOK 3. That book is a Kickstarter exclusive! Excised chapters with notes as to where they would fit in the newest novel in Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s award-winning Diving Series—The Court-Martial of the Renegat Renegades—make up this third Diving Universe Notebook. Also, for writers, the really fun writing class titled “Rocket-Fuel Rachel and the Lost Smallwood Civilization.” How to write fun science fiction lost civilization stories. This is part of the…
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5th Year…
Of My Doing The Rock-N-Roll Half Marathon… Here in Vegas. There is a 5k run on Saturday and then the half marathon on Sunday. I have finished the half four previous years, very slowly, but I finished. And every year I have done it by myself in pretty nice conditions. I had personal issues each year, but I made it and it was grand fun. This year a couple of friends are going to do the half with me and another is doing the 10K which starts with the half. So not alone this year. Yay!! (I mean when I say, “doing the half with me” is that they will…
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Another Fun Running Post…
Got Some Fantastic Pictures The professional photographer with Calico Racing, the great folks that put on this last weekend’s 5K took these pictures. The first one is Kris zooming past me… Yes Kris can zoom. Notice the enjoyment she is getting out of leaving me in the dust. Second picture me running… Third picture is of Kris running. I think this might be one of the best pictures of Kris ever taken. Can’t tell we really love staying in shape, can you?