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Author: Michael

  • My Writing Schedule–Revisited

    So last year, I wrote a post about my writing schedule.  I don’t really have a writing schedule, but I did pretend to have one for a while before I fell of the proverbial cliff earlier this year.  At the beginning of the year, and by that I mean January 1st, I started writing a…

  • Writing a book?

    I have started working on a book (again). I have gotten started a couple of times… but didn’t really get very far. This year, on January 1st, I started writing with the goal of writing 100 words every day. So far that has worked out well for me. The first few days, it was easy…

  • It Has Been A While…

    I haven’t posted in while.  Since July actually.  It has been rather busy around here.  I may have mentioned before that I have 4 kids.  You may already know Carolyn, since she posts on here from time to time.  I also have 2 kids in high school that are in the marching band.  Marching band…

  • I Broke It!

    I have a few things to mention today. First, I broke my server on Tuesday. I came home from work, and got a notice that my blog was down. It happens rather often lately (more in a minute). In an effort to reduce the frequency of the outages, I decided to change how my server…

  • Greece is Blue

    This is not fiction, but a true(ly boring) story.  Nothing in this is made up, but it is based on my memories of the time, so I don’t promise complete accuracy. ***** A long time ago, in a time far away, I was a young sailor on a ship in the Mediterranean. At the time…

  • My Writing ‘Schedule’

    My writing schedule, is really not a schedule.  I have tried to keep this blog active with posts by writing in spurts and scheduling those posts for specific times.  I think consistency is good, and with the scheduled postings, I feel like I can be a little more consistent. Unfortunately, my actual writing times are…

  • Explosives T-Shirt

    I listen to a lot of pod casts on my drive to and from work.  One of the podcasts I listen to is Writing Excuses.  At the end of each episode they usually provide a writing prompt.  I don’t usually do anything with the writing prompts, but this was early in the podcast seasons and…

  • Behind Schedule

    Since I started blogging on this particular site, I have been doing a pretty good job of maintaining a somewhat consistent posting schedule.  I had even gotten enough content ready that I had it scheduled out several weeks (at two posts a week). Unfortunately, I allowed my work ahead to lull me into a more…

  • Asteroid Eros

    When I wrote the first part of Heavenly Potato, I had been reading about asteroids, and came across the mention of Eros.  The shape of it reminded me of a potato, and the images NASA has of it could be an inspection of a potato in black and white.  It is rather interesting to look…

  • Heavenly Potato: Chapter 2

    Demex looked at the probe data again. It appeared that yet another star system had the right conditions for life. Unfortunately, this one appeared to be already inhabited with semi-intelligent life. The indications were there, showing that they had the ability to harness energy from heavy elements. They don’t appear to be very advanced though.…