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Comments land like a stone in a pond: they ripple through the work. Last weekend I had critique sessions with writing buddies. This week I followed those ripples and made minor changes in a couple of chapters. I […]
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Writing and reviewing happened this week. I had three pieces to review for writing groups that meet this weekend. I enjoy providing feedback on others’ work. It’s like a puzzle to solve, trying to figure out what the […]
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After last week’s focus on research—timetables, maps, photographs—I was ready to write this week. Notes on the next scene in the WIP had been drafted months ago. This week I worked on finishing this scene, which opens the […]
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Much of this week’s writing time was consumed with research. For the current WIP novel, I needed certain physical locations for key parts of the action. For example: a summer house on a lake in northern New England […]
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A friend and I made an agreement to check in with each other weekly about the progress on our writing progress. We both have long-form books that we struggle to find time for amid jobs and other things […]
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Here is a favorite for Pi Day (in the US: 3/14/….). 1 9-inch pie crust recipe 430 g pumpkin puree 1 c (240 ml) buttermilk ¼ c (60 g) maple syrup 2 eggs, lightly beaten ½ c (100 […]
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1 9-inch pie crust recipe Topping: 1 c (120 g) all-purpose flour ¼ c (50 g) brown sugar 1 ½ T black sesame seeds ¾ t ground cardamom ¼ t salt 6 T (85 g) unsalted butter cut […]
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Makes a 9-inch tartPoached pears: 1 750-ml bottle of white wine2/3 cup (132 g) sugar5 2-inch strips of lemon zest plus 2 T juice1 cinnamon stick15 whole peppercorns3 whole cloves1/8 t salt½ vanilla bean (optional)4 Bosc or Bartlett […]
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For my first foray into chatty AI, I asked Bard (Google’s Chatbot): Write a short, humorous story about a detective who is also a talking parrot. A woman comes to the parrot to ask him to find her […]
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Science fiction challenges our assumptions about the world and gets us to think about the world and our place in it in a new way. That’s what good science fiction should do. Invisible Things does exactly that. The […]
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