Musing on Productivity
I'm a little under the weather today - bit of an upset stomach thing. It's been coming and going the last couple of weeks. Thus, I'm not sure how profound I'm going to be today. But that's okay. One of…
Wednesday Wrap Up 5.28.25
Crazy week. The ups and downs in my personal life are affecting my work, but I'm still pushing through and being productive. I don't have much in the way of random thoughts, and I've got an errand to get to in a bit, so.…
10 For Tuesday - 10 Great Story Openings
I'm a little behind on writing this week, so I'm recycling a post from the previous Gallowglas website. However, I'm going to expand my thoughts on some of them. "They ate Jorgenson first." - Plague Year, by Jeff Carlson This is my…
Monday Musings - Defining Success
Lately, I've been putting a lot of thought into what it means to be successful. With the world around me, both personally and widely, going into a freefall tailspin, and the fluctuating life of being a working creative in a late-stage, free-market capitalism hellscape, it's far…
Wednesday Weekly Wrap-Up 5-21-25
Ooops. I forgot to click the PUBLISH button on Wednesday. I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be a writer and how much the profession has changed since I started publishing, which was already way different than when I dedicated myself to being a writer…
10 For Tuesday - Books/Series that Influenced Me
Greetings, story lovers. For this week's 10 For Tuesday, I'm offering 10 Books that influenced or shaped me in some way. However, I've decided not to make this a list of "favorites." These will be books that I don't often…
Monday Musings - Depressed Asshole Face
"Knowing thyself is the beginning of wisdom." - Socrates, or maybe Aristotle, or maybe someone else entirely, but whoever it was, they've been dead a looooong time, so I think I've acknowledged that it wasn't me, and thus... I've done…
Throwback Thursday - First
I thought it would be fun to revisit some of my old posts from way back when I first started this crazy professional writer thing. This was my very first post from Blogspot, back when it was called "Words... Words... Words..." in homage to Hamlet. From time to…
Wednesday Weekly Wrap-Up 5/13/25
This one's going to be short and quick. I meant to write it last night and schedule it, but after the livestream and taking care of a few other odds and ends around the house, I hit a wall and crashed. This morning, I have an appointment to…
10 For Tuesday - Books A.I. Could Never Write
I originally published this on my old site. It's been two years, and the conversation around A.I. has gotten even more heated. More and more writers are hearing about their books being scraped to "train" large language model generators. Like before, this post isn'…
