• Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Time Crunched…

    That Describes the Day… What little free time I had today went to watching The Voice final. Stunning music.   Also had a fun hour plus in the store I hadn’t intended to have. I had planned on working with Josh and Dan for a short time to get an area set up to start working on a massive project. But then this nice guy came in, a collector who knew my old friend Bill. Josh and I got talking with him and he ended up buying two boxes of some L. Ron Hubbard leather books we had in the back warehouse. By the time that was finished, Josh was way…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Writing and Lost Track of Time

    You all know how that happens… I planned tonight to write one of the longer blogs on one of the questions from last week. So I’m banging along on a fiction project and I had taken a few breaks, but didn’t think to look at the clock until I realized it was 5:30 a.m. Those longer posts take me an hour or more, and a clear mind. Not happening at this moment. (grin) So soon. Time… when you are writing a story and having fun, it sure zips past. (grin) —————- FEBRUARY ONLINE WORKSHOPS Workshops start next Tuesday and Wednesday. Yes, it is February already. Still room in all of them, but…

  • On Writing,  publishing

    The New World of Publishing: Time

    Boy, discussion about “time” seems to be coming up a lot lately, especially in the context of writing and indie publishing. So let me take a hard look at the two routes only through the lens of “time.” So why spend the time to talk about time now? It was a week where I got hit with a number of factors concerning time. I made some basic projections on speed and income in the last two posts in this column and had a number of people take me to task because there isn’t enough data to make projections, even though I was only using information from this very moment and…