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Tenacity To Write At Length

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This is an insightful post about some necessary writing skills required to create AND finish adult-sized novels. Before breaking into my short tips on how to maintain a prolonged mental state for large writing projects, let me say this, keep plenty of backup power on-hand and practice periodic saving every few minutes! (Technology failed me twice while compiling this article.) Now that the tech-part has been said, let's move on. Ti me for writing, only writing. It's impossible to write an entire novel on five or ten minute intervals with the idea that the passages can be stuck together later and make sense to a stranger. They won't. Good writing takes more. Novels require their writer's attention for hours at a time. It's not unusual for an author to sit and write for eight or nine hours without stopping. I've found it takes about two hours to re-engage with the previous day's work, three hours of new, good material that follows it,

Scratchy AM Radios

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I Love Scratchy, Crackly, AM-Band Transistor Radios! My Fishing Radio Yes, it's kooky. I've so much good audio around me these days, what with phones, iPods, tablets... why go backwards to A.M. radio? Sub-woofing thumps are nice but they're intense, overpowering. Sometimes I just want a little background music - in the damn background! Maybe I'm getting old. Industrial sized bumps and crashes aren't always needed. I don't want my body penetrated by sound - don't mind the sound of a pathetically tuned, low resolution pocket AM radio - especially when fishing. So I've found myself browsing E-Bay for old radios.  And I have a few - one adorns my workshop, another I keep in the boat and there's another for when I move around the house. Yes, we also have a lovely home stereo system for those times we want the fullest musical experience... but there's nothing like the comforting sound of AM radio when I'm  writing  or wor

Am I Actually Asexual?

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  Asexual : An organism that can reproduce all by it's f*cking self! It would seem my education was off when it comes to the definition of asexuality. Apparently this description doesn't apply to humans. Here , we use it in a totally different way. Just what did she mean when she asked that absurd question anyway? She placed her hands onto my chest, leaned forward for a moment and then began to nestle herself down onto the tip of my rod. Her eyes closed, opening only when she'd reached its end. Sarah's a cute kid, very amiable and tries really hard to impress. She's a real breath of fresh air. I just can't remember anyone asking that question when I was her age. Asexual? Linda used that word too. She said almost the very same thing to me a couple of months ago. Of course, her situation was a little different. She was going through a dry spell. There was a fear she wouldn't get laid again. It was bullshit talk.  She'

Australia's Redress Scheme: Sex and The So-Called Celibate Church

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When it comes to righting the wrongs of the past, the Catholic and Anglican Churches are last to take their place in the National Redress Scheme. Q. Do you know why? A. The Church isn't as celibate as it claims to be! As more investigations reveal the extent of pedophilia that took place while the Church had charge of children at various institutions over the last century, it's clear that few Clergy (if any at all) were indeed celibate. Historic child-sex abuse crimes are but only a precipice of sexual activity that has and does go on regularly in Church, in all churches. Let me tell you, Priests f*ck! They really do! Nuns bang too! Brothers get down and dirty! They all do it. They have to. I'm not being blasphemous or anti-religion by saying so, nor am I adding a sarcastic tone to these words. Sex is not weird, it's bloody natural! I say good on 'em for breaking through, figuring that part out instead of enduring some bullshit masochistic routine