25 December 2023

Christmas Day. If you celebrate Christmas, Merry Christmas. As always, I hope the day has treated you and yours well. I had a helluva time getting started when I woke up, and when I finally did, I didn’t feel like writing on Colfyr. I didn’t feel like...

24 December 2023

It’s Christmas Eve, here in the United States… and other localities that celebrate Christmas. Although, given the wonders (or maybe wondrous frustrations) of time zones, it is already Christmas Day in places. I am largely indifferent when it comes to...

23 December 2023 Part Deux

So, I’m not going to hit 10,000 words today. I finished Chapter 21 of Colfyr, and I feel ‘done,’ at least in terms of writing. I probably woudl’ve left it at that, but I remembered some emails I’d received lately regarding one, specific...

23 December 2023

I decided to take a break from my fiction to provide a general update on my writing and announce a new series. As some of you may know, I am what I call a burst writer. Some people call this a ‘sprint writer,’ but I don’t like that. To me, the term...

19 December 2025

I woke up to a snowy landscape this morning. As far as I know, it was the first snow of the “season,” even though most of it melted away by evening. Every time I see snow for the first time each year, I always think of my grandfather. He loved to hear me...

17 December 2023

Well, 2023 is almost a wrap. In some ways, it feels so weird to write–or think–that. It seems to have passed incredibly quickly. But here of late… most of the years have felt like that, I suppose. It’s been a while since I posted an update, and...