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Wander the restorations of the labyrinthine palace-complex of ancient Knossos with Thor and me! NOTE: Of course, Thor and I had to make another trip to Greece, as he’s fallen as much in love with the islands as I am. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Writers on Writing
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) I was initially going to title this essay “Folk Medicine.” But some of what I’ve discussed already falls under that header, and there are plenty of other medical treatments that … Continue reading
Hang around writers long enough, and eventually you’ll be at a kaffeeklatsch or dinner or late night talk at a hotel bar, and someone will say to you, “Are you a plotter or pantser?”
I propose a third kind of plotting technique; labyrinth walking.
Continue reading(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) Ah, the humble herb. Simultaneously a relic of a bygone medical era, and one of the cutting edges of pharmaceutical research today. The term “herb” doesn’t have a very rigid … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) Just as the miasma theory of disease wanders in the direction of something useful (germs) before veering off to be totally wrong (bad air), so too does the notion of … Continue reading
‘Tis the season, and because it is, I saw three different versions of A Christmas Carol last week (and completed my annual re-read of the book as well). The first was a stage production done by San Francisco’s A.C.T. Conservatory. … Continue reading
If you’re a pantser you are not in sole charge of the work. The characters, the plot, the theme, all chip in and drag the book to new and exciting places. You want them to do that. This is the … Continue reading
Join Thor and me as a few kilometers of roads (with slight detours) takes us from ancient Minoan Phaestos to Roman Gortys to modern Irakleio. And images of my writing muse Ariadne, old and new. NOTE: Of course, Thor and I … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) Some cities are special. Capitals are the obvious example of this — in some ways all the more so because not all cities you think of as capitals actually have … Continue reading
All of my writing life—38 books, 2 non fiction releases and almost 100 published short stories, plus a few never to see the light of day again projects—I have always had to know the ending before I start writing. I … Continue reading