"From the great heaven she set her mind on the great below. From the great heaven the goddess set her mind on the great below. From the great heaven Inanna set her mind on the great below. My mistress abandoned heaven, abandoned earth, and descended to the underworld. Inanna abandoned heaven, abandoned earth, and descended …
Full Moon over Texas
Full Moon over Texas. It was as yellow as a saucer of cream! Playing around with the contrast in this one. Gives an artificial and spooky look.
My New Story! Lisetta Lawrence is a myopic graduate student with knobby knees and a troubled love life….
In the story "Tennessee Waltz" Lisetta Lawrence is the main character. Which is interesting because she was a secondary character from an unpublished novel. But I have know over the years there was more to her story that needed to be told. I am a writer. I talk about writing in this blog all the …
A Very Busy Week Ahead
Last night we used the new fire pit. I really like it a lot. I'm the kind of guy who can sit out in front of a camp fire for hours thinking about writing and that's exactly what I did last night. I also used my 7x50 Vixen Forestas to look at the grouping of …
Writing Update and Research Problems: Losing the thread of the story in weeds and thickets
I wrote twelve pages yesterday on the new Haxan novel. I think I am finally in a safe place as far as the novel goes. There is still a lot of research to do. I am planning a trip to Fort Griffin this weekend. I'm looking forward to that. As a writer I want to …
Great article in Centauri Dreams: explains fallibility of Fermi’s Paradox, human impatience
“Lost in Space and Lost in Time: The Consequences of Temporal Dispersion for Exosolar Technological Civilizations" by Dave Moore, Centauri Dreams. Mark here. This is an excellent article. I have always believed the problem lies more with our human-centralized impatience to "find idealized Star Trek aliens" rather than the simple fact we A.) are alone, …
Hoover's Corner 