Most of the writers I know, once in the zone will work for hours on a project. They will isolate, set aside family, friends, work, and everything else and focus on a project. Now achieving that focus is never simple. It requires flipping a switch, and turning it off is no easy task either. Writers tend to allow their words to overtake them, playing phrases and words over and over…

When you build your own world, you get to define all these very important words for your own fictional reality, but in the real world, the one where my feet live, we all have our own idea of freedom. For many it is freedom from something. Freedom from ignorance, freedom from starvation, freedom from persecution, freedom from confinement, slavery, and other icky, horrifying things. Other people want the freedom to…

No idea how this could relate to my fictional world, but somehow it hit my funny bone just right. Last night on my evening commute, with the sun going down shining in my eyes, I tried to adjust the visor and it fell off in my hand. Yes the whole visor fell down, and it is a heavy sucker with mirror and light inside the visor. I was startled and…