Come on inside and sit a spell. Here you can learn about: the worlds I regularly visit, my journey to being published in real time, some tips on the ins and outs of fiction writing and selling, various happenings on the writing landscape, my fiction focus critique group friends, and the many things that make me tick.

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Robert E. Howard (1906 - 1936), the father of the Sword and Sorcery sub-genre, and one of my very favorites.
Instead of watching from the outside in (the norm when you're writing), I actually existed inside a story. What a thrill! You haven't lived unless you've lived in Medieval Times. Find one near you!
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"People love seeing violence and horrible things. The human being is bad and can't stand more than five minutes of happiness. Put him in a dark theater and ask him to look at two hours of happiness, and he'd walk out or fall asleep." -- Paul Verhoeven

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." -- Robert A. Heinlein

"Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great." -- Cher

"You must NEVER let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer." -- Isaac Asimov

"Writing a book is like dating. It's exciting. It's dreamy. And after four years, I just want to end it." -- Carole Radziwill

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass." -- Maya Angelou

"Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know what happens, to unravel the mystery, to see good triumph. You have to sustain it, keep it warm, feed it, just a little bit, not too much at a time, as your story goes on. That's called suspense. It can bring desire to a frenzy, in which case you are in a good position to bring off a wonderful climax." -- Colin Greenland 

"Listen. The best conversations you'll ever have are the ones where you talk the least." -- JA Konrath

"If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster." -- Isaac Asimov

“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him about to the public.” -- Winston Churchill

"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." -- Maya Angelou  

"Everything you've heard about the shower scene is true." -- Paul Verhoeven, Director, Starship Troopers