alchemy
October 9, 2009
- For the last few months, I’ve been wrestling with alchemy and, for the most part, alchemy has been winning. The subject is central to my next novel, so it’s fairly vital that I pin it down for a while in order to work out what’s going on behind all the retorts, athanors, and other arcane chymical paraphernalia. The trouble is, being too mean to shell out on a book, I’ve been doing all my ...
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September 16, 2009
- I just climbed out of the The Slough of Not Writing—a place of confusion, boredom, and stoic self-reliance. During this time all kinds of projects were cached in my computer--a disorganized filing system that invariably shocks techno-people. And there were a lot floating around since I work from fragments that seem unviable, until--like shells releasing flowers underwater--something brings ...
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July 7, 2009
- Currently embroiled –or possibly simply broiled– in some horribly complicated background research for an historical novel. Occasionally, I think I’m going off my head. Other times, I fear I’m turning into Dan Brown. I’m not quite sure which is worse. On the whole, if I have any say in the matter, I think I’d like the eventual novel to err rather more on the side of madness than ...
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December 15, 2008
- This was a good year for epigrammists. Politics and the economy were going up, down and sideways. Plenty of the best and worst of human nature was in evidence. Out with the old and in with the new might be coming true. We can only hope. I've completed my second book of epigrams and am well into my third. Here are a few December thoughts for this holiday season of joy and perhaps, more modest ...
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