Writing fiction, like I do, is process of revelation. We’ve all heard it asked, either as writers ourselves, or listening to the fans approach the Famous Author, “Where do you get your ideas?” There’s rarely a good answer to that, because ideas are everywhere, there for writers and non-writers to pluck out of the air… Continue reading The Memories Come First
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Why I Wrote “Emperor Dad”
My life changed. Taking a risk, I had accepted an early retirement offer from the company where I had worked for twenty-some years. The company had changed, and my children were grown. The numbers seemed reasonable. I could quit writing database code that seemed increasingly irrelevant to me, and I feared, to the company. So… Continue reading Why I Wrote “Emperor Dad”
The Topology of the Project Saga
I had always supposed that when I wrote a series of books, that they would be a series, that is, one book after the other in chronological order. It hasn’t worked out that way for me. In fact, it never has. My most populated series, Small Towns, Big Ideas, is more a collection than a… Continue reading The Topology of the Project Saga