Last night I attended our local screenwriters group’s meeting. At the meetings we table read five to six pages of scripts that a member brings in. A table read is where different members play the part of characters as the script is read out loud. Reading one script (there were three scripts we read last […]
You’ve written one or a dozen books after you uploaded your first digital book. You’ve written tens of thousands of words for blog post, articles or even short fiction works. Now is the time to go through your first digital books and make them better. Many authors say their first book or first half a […]
Back in the 1980s I build a simple device to assist a portable radio setup. It didn’t work in the field. It didn’t work back home either, but I didn’t have time to check it out before the trip. Fast forward 30 years. A use for the device came up so I dug it out. […]
To add a vampire or not add a vampire. To sell more books or not to sell more books. That is the question. It’s easier, lazier to throw in a Vampire. Do I surrender to a quick sell? Do I hold out for my vision? My beta reader says make him a vampire. […]
As I was taking my morning walk today, I swung by the city library. When I walked in they were putting out a new load of books from the ‘Friends of the Library’. People donate books to the Friends of the Library and the Friends sell the books at very modest price with the proceeds […]
The other day I looked on the WEB to find out if there is a space between the end of a word and the first dot of an ellipsis, because my word processor said there should not be a space. Bad mistake. I found nothing but a conflicting mess of misinformation. The basic idea is […]
No not really. Microsoft recently release a study of documents written on computers running Windows software. One of the big finding is that too many people use too many commas in their writing. That doesn’t answer the question of where they got the documents and where they store those documents. They say there is no […]
It’s amazing that Watson, the IBM computer, can diagnosis cancer, but it can not tell you where to place a comma in an English sentence. Of course you can’t get two different English grammar teachers to agree where to put a comma (in all cases). Those teacher will give you an F if you don’t […]
Warning Rant Below. I had a talk with a budding young writer the other day. When I mentioned the trouble I had with grammar she said let the editor take care of it. This may be an attitude of the cell phone generation, but I strive to do quality work. I work hard to make […]
This is not the San Diego comic con, this is better. This is a convention of makers and doers of comics. It’s small enough that you can have a conversation with those that are making and have made comics without standing in line for hours. This year the convention celebrated the 100 birthday of Jack […]