I feel like, when a date has been celebrated for over a hundred years, that it really ought to be able to continue to be celebrated. Grandma would have been 110 today. This is the first year that I haven’t called her on her birthday since I was old enough to dial the phone on […]
February 5th – I’m declaring it Mary Elois Jackson Day. Celebrate with me? Read More »
I’m in the studio this week to record Of Noble Family. I’ve been wanting to show you what the recording process is like, but that requires getting permission from the author. Since I wrote this book… So, Dustin Anderson, my engineer/director, and I set up a Google On Air and recorded us doing the first chapter
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Man… there were a ton of good suggestions, but the theme of winter kept coming up so… Here’s what’s outside the window.
The view outside the window… Read More »
What you have here is a drawing that I did on my new tablet. It’s actually been a really long time since I’ve drawn. I mean I was an art major, back in the day, but that was 25 years ago. But this new tablet, see, it has a touch sensitive stylus. So… I started
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For those reading along with Ghost Talkers, Chapter 20 is up. For everyone else, here is a random photo of the last day of our Christmas decorations. We keep our Christmas cards in the typewriters. Thrilling. I know.
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Everyone has a story they want to tell, whether that’s from fiction or from part of your life. As I’ve been watching the news roll out from Ferguson and then in waves across the nation, I’ve been struck by how much grass-roots reporting has differed from the mainstream media narrative. While facts and data are important,
I’m teaching a free writing workshop in Ferguson, MO on Jan 24. Read More »
If you are reading this post, right now, it is because I promoted it. There is another copy of this post on my site, nearly identical, except that I didn’t promote it other than just posting it. It doesn’t take looking at the traffic numbers to figure out which one more people will read. [Edited
This post! I’m promoting it, even though I’ve been told it’s tacky to self-promote. Read More »
If you are reading this post, right now, I have no idea how you found it. I’m glad you stumbled across it. There is another copy of this post on my site, nearly identical in every way, except that I promoted it. It doesn’t take looking at the traffic numbers to figure out which one more people will
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The latest chapter is up, and I was right about splitting the one I was working on in two. Which means I’m still two chapters from the end. Y’all are four chapters from the end, because of how far ahead of you I write. Meanwhile, for everyone else, here’s Sadie and Marlowe. I know you’re
For those reading along, Ghost Talkers chapter 19 is up Read More »
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For those of you reading along, I’ve posted the next chapter in Ghost Talkers. I just finished chapter 20 and am two or three chapters from the end. The reason I’m not quite sure is that the next chapter might split into two. We’ll see as I write it. If it gets unwieldy, I’ll find a
Ghost Talkers Chapter 18 is up. Read More »
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This week on Writing Excuses, we’re kicking off a new structure, a masterclass in fiction. Here, I’ll let you read the description. Season 10 begins! We wanted to do something different this year. Something special. As we brainstormed we kept returning to something a listener said years ago: “Writing Excuses is like a master class in writing
Writing Excuses’s 10th season is a masterclass. (Plus Mary’s homework) Read More »
