Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I’ve been doing some thinking recently. (Don’t we all? Don’t we all engage in thinking constantly? What does that phrase really mean, when you think about it?) I’ll start again. I have been engaging in a form of creative introspection recently. Life has been throwing distractions and stresses …
Continue reading What to write next? Time to trust the artistic gut
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I had a daydream about a spacefaring story, complete with prolonged dialogue exchange and random bad technological ideas. It was terrible, but fun to go with for a while, comparing Tom Waits' and Nicholas Cage’s Renfields (there was a reason to do with insects and vegetarianism – I …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Last week I talked about trying to remove yourself, or at least your ego, from your writing, to embrace the other, to try to express viewpoints alien from your own. This week, I will entertain a rather different idea. That you cannot escape yourself: that everywhere you go, …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I did say I’d see you next week, but I didn’t say which day! I continue to be distracted by life. House selling is very consuming: you move out of your own home in advance, denude it of character so visitors can impress their personalities upon it, see …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Strange time to disengage, the week after releasing your book, but that’s what I did. Missed a blog, and a bit more. I’ve been busy. Living life. Losing sleep. Working, and working when not working. There was some all-consuming play in there too. New Orleans is very diverting. …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! The Gardener and The Goddess is live for purchase! Ebook, paperback, hardback - the choice, my friends, is yours. A quick note to say thank you thank you to everyone who bought my book, and have allowed me to be the #1 new release in Inspirational Spiritual Fiction! …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! One week to publication! Thank you to all of you who have pre-ordered the kindle edition of my book, because The Gardener and The Goddess is currently the #1 new release in the Inspirational Spiritual Fiction section on Amazon! You can still pre-order here! And still available until …
Continue reading One week to publication!! (this is an exclamation Point heavy post – be Prepared.)
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I continue preparations for publication of The Gardener and The Goddess. Release date remains Monday March 31st 2025. I was just working to get the book set up for pre-order, and ended up fixing a sentence. Okay, two sentences. Such changes mean a new updated format file for …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I’m sorry I missed last’s weeks epistle. Very busy. I thought about posting an introduction to one of my new characters in the not at all fast fiction I am still working on starting, and then decided it just contained too much cool stuff I wasn’t ready to …
Continue reading Publication date for The Gardener and The Goddess
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I have a formatted version of my book. I have to do the page by page review for widows and orphans (if you know, you unfortunately know), and last bits of tidying up, hopefully without getting sucked into perfectionism minutiae. I was looking through the text and suddenly …
Continue reading Progress, Perfectionism as a failed landmine, and Amped up Porridge
Roderick T. Macdonald 