During the course of most of October, I was traveling around Japan. It was my first trip to that country, after dreaming about going most...

As part of an exchange on TikTok with another writer, I have become focused on both the challenges and joys of my current life as a...

One of the aspects of writing I have known for some time, but neglected of late, is that I need to have new projects, not just the older...

I realize I have been silent here for several months. It has been a busy time. My writing is moving forward on several fronts (think...

I have been looking into the process of writing a screenplay for some time. I have taken several classes on the subject, and thought hard...

The idea of a palimpsest has always intrigued me. I'm not sure where I first encountered the term. Certainly it was part of my sense of...

For the past two months I have been posting regularly on Tiktok. I read that it provided interesting opportunities for making known (i.e....

As my novel goes up for sale, I have started to receive reviews and reactions. I know this is the lot of any writer who publishes. The...

One of the reasons my book Plenum has taken such a long time to bring forward into print is that, along with other members of the...

During the month of November I am participating in the worldwide annual paroxysm called NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month. Here...

I have noticed in myself a general state of fragility that I think of as "system-wide" in the sense that it embraces all of me, and I...

For my vacation this year, I went away to... yeah, Montreal. I know, just a hop and a skip, but after more than a year confined to my...

The Ozymandias Coliseum So what is it that makes the really great books so great? Is there a single secret? Obviously, it requires good...

Although I had heard about WattPad for some time, I had not until recently examined the possibilities offered by the site for writing. I...

Having now finished the revisions of the second novel in The Ido Chronicles series, so that the manuscript is ready for submission for...

Among the many wonderful ideas that emerged from the collaborative phase (still ongoing!) of my work on The Ido Chronicles, the idea of...

One of the issues I have been wondering about for some time was whether I should publish under a different name.The name I was born with,...

Well, after nine years (!) of writing and revising, we are in the final steps of getting the first of my novels, Plenum : The First Book...

One of the things I've taken on since I retired 18 months ago is work as a consultant with my brother, Cliff Edwards, and the company he...

I find myself in the odd and unexpected situation of needing to revise two distinct novels in order to make them ready for publication....