So what do you do when you have several stories and a couple of draft novels all occupying the same universe? Well, you get very confused and very overwhelmed. My first novel, Any Tomorrow, has been sitting in stasis on Amazon for a couple of years now. Since then I’ve…

Can I make a confession?  I have never suffered from “writer’s block”.  For all the fiction, non-fiction, intelligence reporting, and documentation I have written, I have never been intimidated by the blank page or empty display screen. However, in the spirit of full disclosure, I have struggled with format, with…

So I had surgery a few days ago and my wife heard me in the kitchen. “What are you doing?” she asked. “I was walking to get some exercise and noticed the paper towel holder was empty,” I said, “so I was replacing them.” “You’re not supposed to be doing…

In an earlier post I discussed the Character Worksheet I used to keep track of all the characters mentioned in my Any Tomorrow Trilogy.  The worksheet simply lists the name and a basic description of each character.  This tool is very handy to make sure names aren’t too similar or…