Tuesday 3/24/20 The "it" being this 5000 word essay on Sherlock Holmes and breakfast, which will be adjusted for inclusion in the memoir, Saving Angles: Find...

Tuesday 3/24/20 Many people in publishing backload excuses into their lives. They are themselves excuses incarnate. They are passive, almost never active, we...

Monday 3/23/20 Ran three miles. Tenth day in a row. Much more importantly, I did that alternate version of "Shed," which will now be considered the definitiv...

Monday 3/23/20 The night, he thought, has a way of shifting into itself—an assertion of its night-ness even while the color of sky stays the same, the clock ...

Monday 3/23/20 I have to hustle. There is just so much to do. Yesterday marked 1386 days (198 weeks) without a drink. I ran three miles and walked ten. This ...

Saturday 3/21/20 Ran three miles, walked five. I have a version of "Shed" with a different ending and also a different title. Alternate. Options. I can do an...

Saturday 3/21/20 Okay. I'm only giving away a very little bit of this. It's too timely, it's too spot on, for me to give much of it away on here. The story n...

Saturday 3/21/20 Woke up at five, began work. Before I begin work, I look at some Facebook posts from losers in publishing who never write anything and who w...

Friday 3/20/20 I have to haul ass. It's almost noon, I had a crippling anxiety attack that I felt was going to knock me dead this morning. I am not functioni...

Friday 3/20/20 The bodies looked like flattened wheelbarrows in the dark. Marcy crawled as if to touch any would cause her to be detonated. They were mines i...

Thursday 3/19/20 I thought I would put up a series of posts--interspersed through the others, covering the usual range--that provide links to complete films,...

Thursday 3/19/20 Today is the anniversary of the day Molly first put into practice her exacting, highly detailed, plan of betrayal to do to me what she did. ...

Tuesday 3/17/20 Heading out for a run. I'll have more important things to put up on here later. My sister sent me granola and energy bars. That was nice of h...

Sunday 3/15/20 I hate the expression "the GOAT." I am convinced there is a direct correlation between your intelligence and how often you use that phrase. Ca...

Sunday 3/15/20 Remember the woman from yesterday with all of her research for her novel, the years and years of research on behalf of her book about a pandem...

Saturday 3/14/20 I saw a post from a writer on Facebook saying how her third novel is about a virus and she's been researching it for years and interviewing ...

Thursday 3/12/20 I'm figuring this out, going slow for me which is fast for others, but soon I am going to break ground on what would be a major story of our...

Thursday 3/12/20 What a depressing time this is to be alive. Culture is dead, truth is dead, identity and the individual is dead, mental illness reigns, depr...

Thursday 3/12/20 “Engineer’s Thumb,” published on its own in the March 1892 of Strand Magazine, is the ninth story in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The ...

Thursday 3/12/20 Today is my father's birthday. He would have been seventy-three. I am unable to rouse myself to anything. My fight is flagging. I have had t...