Saturday, January 6, 2024 First, a big thank you to Dan Antion for making a post of the writing exercise I did on Wednesday — and giving my books a double shout-out, with Speak Falpper and Hullabal Lulu, a Diesel-Punk Adventure. Don’t miss Dan’s post. Since Daphne was being such a character (if not a … More Weekend Serial, Characters
Saturday, October 28, 2023 Welcome to my sanctuary, everyone. You’d think I would be refreshed after such a long blog break. Instead, I wrote a novella (A Peril in the Bayou). Writing a short novel during that long break was actually arduous, and it didn’t lead to a replenishment of energy. However, to keep the … More Atonement Serial Research
Saturday, September 9, 2023 Welcome, everyone. I hope your September is going well. I’m still on a blog “break.” That word is kind of hard to say considering that I’ve been staying up past 1AM several nights, working on books and related tasks. However, to tide you over until I come back to do the … More Atonement in Zugzwang, Book 1 — Now available
Saturday, September 2, 2023 Hello, everyone. Thanks for visiting my sanctuary. My break from blogging isn’t precisely over yet. As Olga Núñez Miret once told me, sometimes doing something different is as good as a break. That’s what I’ve been doing. But first a boo-hiss to WordPress for continuing to crop large swaths off my … More Atonement in Zugzwang Part 2: Call for Things
Saturday, August 19, 2023 Welcome back to Atonement, TN. It’s good to see you. Today I’m welcoming fellow author/blogger Marian Allen back to the blog-verse. Marian hasn’t been able to post much this year because she fell and broke both wrists. Back in DC, I had a severe break to my right wrist (that of … More Weekend Serial — Atonement in Zugzwang: Episode 23, Featuring Marian Allen
Saturday, August 12, 2023 Welcome back, everyone. I’m happy that you’re following this urban fantasy serial. To drive this episode, I used John W. Howell‘s “finger point prompt.” Here’s how John uses this prompt, “The idea is to open a book randomly and, without looking, point to the page. The word or words closest to the … More Weekend Serial — Atonement in Zugzwang: Episode 22, Featuring Teri Polen
Wednesday, July 26, 2023 When you open a door anywhere in Atonement, TN, you’re bound to find friends. I’ve done a lot of long-running blog serial stories (at least eight, but I always overlook a couple when I try to think of them all). At some point during any of them, I do a post … More Wednesday Writing & #ThursdayDoors to Atonement in Zugzwang — The Good Guys.
Saturday, July 15, 2023 Welcome back to my sanctuary in the town infested with “supernaturals,” that I call Atonement, TN. Before we get to the story, I need to apologize because I haven’t been around the blog-verse as much as I would like. As you know I’ve had Internet problems ever since I moved into … More Weekend Serial — Atonement in Zugzwang: Episode 18, Featuring Dan Antion
Saturday, June 2, 2023 Welcome back to our weekend sanctuary in the weirdly magical town of Atonement, Tennessee. The residents of this town are just like everyone else— Well, that’s way off. Some of them are like everyone else, but others… Anyhow, now and then, they all enjoy watching a game or going to the … More Weekend Serial — Atonement in Zugzwang: Episode 13 part 2, Featuring John W. Howell
Saturday, April 15, 2023 Thanks for coming back to my sanctuary, everyone. I put the chessboard (above) on a tropical shore. It reminded me of the blog, Pacific Paratrooper. Actually, the special guest this week is GP Cox, who runs that blog. He provided this week’s random reader things: Musket, pawn, and barber pole. One … More Weekend Serial — Atonement in Zugzwang: Episode 8, Featuring G. P. Cox
Saturday, April 8, 2023 Hello, everyone. The month of April has begun with odd weather again for many of us. Not to mention the odd happenings under my kitchen sink. I’ve had the plumber out for my badly leaking sink three times in as many weeks. “Nothing is wrong” with the sink. I guess that … More Weekend Serial — Atonement in Zugzwang: Episode 7, Featuring Teri Polen
Saturday, March 25, 2023 Hello, everyone. Welcome back to our weekend sanctuary. It’s in the weirdly magical town of Atonement, Tennessee. Today’s random reader things are from a blogger-author I’ve been privileged to collaborate with several times. That goes all the way back to Pip’s adventures, set in the 1920s, which were my first blog … More Weekend Serial — Atonement in Zugzwang: Episode 5, Featuring John W. Howell
Saturday, March 11, 2023 Welcome to my sanctuary, everyone. After another rough week, I hope you are ready to enter this safe place and relax. The random reader things, which drive this episode are from fellow blogger and new author, Dan Antion. Last year he gradually released three books of a series. And a little bird … More Weekend Serial — Atonement in Zugzwang: Episode 3, Featuring Dan Antion
Saturday, February 25, 2023 Hello, everyone. I’m finally ready to take the plunge into an all new, three things style serial. You may have noticed that strange word in the title. To over-simplify, zugzwang (German for “compulsion to move”) is a situation found in chess and other turn-based games when a player is forced to … More New 3-Things Serial! — Atonement in Zugzwang: Episode 1, Featuring Chris Graham
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 Hello, everyone. Come in and make yourself comfortable for some writerly thoughts. For those who don’t care about that sort of thing, there’s a short story at the end of this post. Those of you who visit here on weekends know that beginning in January, I was getting ready to start … More Wednesday Writing — Planner vs. Pantser
Saturday, November 5, 2022 Hello, everyone. I’m back with more Weekend Shorts. Also, I brought along the Pumpkin Hat Girls again. They were up for some more Twilight Zone-ish fun. Back when I asked photographers and artists to send me three images that were “generally related” one another (unlike the randomness of the reader things … More Weekend Shorts — Do Not Enter, featuring Resa McConaghy
Saturday, October 22, 2022 Hello everyone, and welcome back to Spook-tober Shorts. A couple of weeks ago I introduced some new character-friends, the Pumpkin Hat Girls. They’re back for some more Twilight Zone-ish fun. BASED ON COMMENTS, I REVISED THE STORY TO INCLUDE AN EPILOGUE. Haunted Halloween Holiday is a delightful story by Robbie and … More Revised: Spook-tober Shorts — Sugar Fiends, featuring Robbie Cheadle
Saturday, October 8, 2022 Hello everyone, and happy October. I hope to use this series of short stories I’m writing to promote new books from indie authors, whenever synchronicity allows. Today that happened with the second book in Dan Antion‘s trilogy, “The Evil You Choose.” The title is what inspired my short story, although Dan has … More Spook-tacular Shorts — The Game of Sinful Delights, featuring Dan Antion
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