I lost a scene today. It wasn’t serious, just about a page on the manuscript, and it was in recent memory, so it didn’t take too long to re-create it. But I’m sure it’s about 50 words shorter than the original version, and I don’t know what I left out. Microsoft Word again. The old… Continue reading The Lost Scene
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Texas Highways
Mary Ann Melton, my wife, is a nature photographer. She does other things as well, but her heart is in nature shots. Lately, she’d been hunting about, seeking markets for her work. It’s a shotgun approach, as it is with my writing. Send a large variety of material out into the marketplace and hope something… Continue reading Texas Highways
Bizarro Earth Would Not Be A Planet
The part of “IAU Resolution 5 for GA-XXVI” that describes the planet definition, states “A planet is a celestial body that (a) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (b) is in orbit around a star, and is neither a… Continue reading Bizarro Earth Would Not Be A Planet