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Writing update: Yesterday I finished another story, which means I’m that much closer to having the collection finished (still thinking by mid-month). The new piece, “Mother’s Little Helper” was also written in anticipation of the birth of baby Luella sometime in the next couple of weeks. Technically, the baby is due Sept. 17, but all …
A couple of quick updates since it’s been a week… Beck-umentary momentarily (I hope) I still haven’t gotten the footage back from Beck’s people. While I’m waiting by my inbox hoping for the email to come, I realize that Beck and Co. are busy doing a major multi-month tour and these things take time. Still, …
Just finished (3:30 a.m.) the first draft of Auggie’s Wedding, a short story for my good friend Kimmy’s wedding this next Sunday (in which I’ll be serving as Kimmy’s best man). I’d been writing on this for the past couple of days, then today I went for a walk to think about a brick wall …
So, over a week ago I decided to get things started off on this new blog with the “Coming now” post. At that time I promised to talk more about what was going on, and then promptly got so into “The Work” that I didn’t get to it until now. Although since no one is …