You might find this post of interest if you like (aka need to...) get stuff done.The photo shows how I'm using these two resources in my personal life (which includes this role as a writer.)I'm writing a separate blog post about my experiments with T...

Eighteen Books Devoured in 2024.Below is a chronological listing of the eighteen books I enjoyed reading in 2024. I know it’s not a huge number but I did read the craft books two or three times and also spent a lot of time doing the writing exercises...

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Updated on 2024-10-28 Monday from Tokyo, JapanWearing a light fleece today; now I know summer’s behind us and winter’s on the way. (Alas, autumn’s getting squished between these two.)Here is a selection of October’s Now moments:Finished reading Liu C...

Wrote this method writing journal entry in a Campus pocket notebook with a Pentel Energel pen. Then typed it up in Visual Studio Code.The piece is called "Proctoring Lifeology 101" - a test we all get to take; even the truants are not spared ...

I uploaded my time travel short story, Clocking Time, into Google's experimental notebooklm.The seven minutes podcast was one of the outputs generated by this tool. (Note: contains some spoilers.) Clocking Time - Spotify LinkClocking Time - YouTube L...

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Here's the YouTube version of my monthly NOW update.

Flash fiction inspired by a rainy day and someone's digital dream.(The photo is of the cloud garden at the Hotel Chinzanso, Tokyo.)You can read more about how this story came to be here:

Updated on 2024-02-28 Wednesday from Tokyo, JapanThe first two weeks were warm, way too warm for winter clothes; perhaps a portent of the summer ahead..Temperatures are now back to ’normal’ for this time of year (10C daytime high).Here’s how my month...

An acrostic poem using "secret santa" as the trigger letters.I handwrote various drafts and then typed it up.(The typed version is below the image.)secret santa, I'm out of luckevery scene's sure to suckchapters crash, darlings dier...