The Old Man isn’t the first attempt at a novel I’ve ever undertaken. I dug around in the closet and retrieved this old chestnut, Walker. Walker is a sci-fi story set in the fairly distant future when the human race had colonized… Read More ›
Month: March 2018
Snowy Spring Start
It’s been cold, wet and miserable all day. The kind of weather when the only thing is to do school work until you’re bored with that, and then write more of the book. Yesterday and today have been super productive… Read More ›
Not Doing Schooolwork
Welcome to Tuesday morning at ETSU! Normally I have a ton of reading to do, specifically for two classes. As it stands, I have only one class to read for and, although it’s entertaining – Voltaire’s Candide – at this moment my… Read More ›
A Tired Hallboy
This is one of the few times I made my goal – I’m posting on a Monday and I hit my target of completing Chapter 6! GO ME! But since I’m no longer going to post my initial drafts here, I’ll just… Read More ›
Another Re-Do-Over
So, I’ve come to start Chapter Six and from my original notes, helpfully titled ‘Overview,’ I have only two plot points to cover. One immediately relevant as following on from Chapter Five, the other having nothing at all to do with… Read More ›
Bumps In The Road – Again!
Milestone! Well, I’m at a milestone point. About two hours after getting my single Word document broken up into the five chapters and loaded into Google Docs for my new Chromebook – a process simpler than I’d expected – I’m… Read More ›
A Chromebook
I’m one of those old farts that started out with 8-bit machines running word processing software. Anyone remember the old BBC Microcomputer? No? Then you won’t remember WordWise+. That’s okay. You might have heard of Microsoft Word, and I started… Read More ›
Breaking Spring
Well, last week was something of a misfire. I had intended to get more work done last Monday, but instead wound up grilling burgers, sausages and chicken for the family. The rest of the week didn’t work out much better,… Read More ›
Getting it Right
Well, as luck would have it, the break being forced upon me where I’d intended to continue Chapter 4 has an unexpected beneficial consequence. The sequence of events, as I’d sketched them out in my initial overview, doesn’t work. Some… Read More ›
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