Tag: writing
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Across the Great Divide
This essay will probably be disjointed because it’s about my third year taking the cross-country railroad trip from San Diego to LibertyCon in Chattanooga. It will be disjointed because I’m trying to hurry to finish my second book, hopefully before Son of SilverCon in Vegas in mid-July, so I have little time to make it…
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Playing to an Inside Straight: Introduction
This is a book Sharon started in 2000 but never finished. That really doesn’t matter as much as you might think since each chapter is self-contained. I’ll be posting the other chapters weekly. I decided to start writing this book today. It’s been kicking around upstairs in my head for several years now. Though not…
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The Day The Bridge Broke
This is a story that Sharon wrote in 1973 that figures in how we met. Twilight. I like to go walking then. To think. To reflect. To imagine. To see things in a different light. Twilight. The difference between day and night. The middle of the coin, so to speak. No heads, no tails. No…
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Shakespeare in 1923
I’ve mentioned Taylor Sheridan’s 1923 before. The end of this, his second prequel to Yellowstone, just aired (or streamed?), and, by all that is holy, I can’t say enough about it. I could not believe it when I found out this was going to be the last episode of the series. “There’s no way Sheridan…
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WonderCon 2025
This is my 3rd year attending WonderCon, for me the first Con of the season at the end of March, and somehow it just wasn’t as much fun this year. Not necessarily the Con’s fault, but that of my own attitude. One remarkable thing about this year’s Con was the simultaneous presence in the hotel…
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Wanted: The Hollywood Guide to New York City
I know this will come as a shock to the denizens of New York City and even nearby New Jersey, but 90% of the country has no idea how you live or even where you live. Yes, we all have vague ideas about New York City being a big port on the Northeast Coast, and…
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The Con’s the Thing
Why do I go to cons? One reason is to hang out with like-minded people or at least with those who share many of my enthusiasms. But I can do those things at home. Some folks go to meet their heroes, writers they admire, but I’m old and I met Bradbury, Ellison, Sturgeon, Herbert, Zelazny,…
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Growing up in the Lair of Supervillains
A Review of Becoming Superman, by J. Michael Straczynski This is an autobiography of a man who has lived his adult life in the Hollywood film trade, and the book came out in 2019, so is it appropriate to call things spoilers? This is not a work of fiction, just as his screenplay for Changeling…
Musings of a Restless Mind 