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…
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…
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…
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…
"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…
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…
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…
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'…
I decided to write a short story a week, starting last Monday on my birthday. The plan is to write one page a day, with up to two pages every Sunday as needed to wrap the story up. I finished last week's story just before midnight. I'…
I'm a bit at a loss for what to call this new regular post. Wednesdays are going to be my catch-all, catch-up posts. Yes, I know it's weird to do that on a Wednesday, but have you not met me? If you haven't, welcome…
