A World of Speculation

Compossible

Anu Garg’s word of the day today “compossible” exactly describes a new serendipity in my novel.To give a brief update, a while back, I had a chance to attend a Michael Hauge workshop in Portland. Michael is a Hollywood screenplay consultant whose...

Lines from a deposition

I just love this stuff. I’m proofreading a deposition in which the attorney is asking the plaintiff in an automobile accident case about what happened immediately after the accident:Q. And did you say anything to your wife?A. I asked her how she was doing. We...

Which way is up?

The artist and her friends were placing artworks in the Starbucks gallery (hung on the coffee shop walls for sale).They were bold, colorful oil paintings with bright yellows, oranges, purples. One of the women mentioned how much she liked the “fish”...

Quiet time at Orthodox Writers Week

We have been very, very good today. We sit in our little worlds, arrayed on couches, benches, on the beach, with our laptops, manuscripts, notebooks in hand.Quiet, please. We are birthing. Articles, books, poetry, a more conscious life. Gloria in her headphones is...

Repeat after me: ‘It’s only a novel’

Apparently, Stephen King’s Cell got to Afghanistan, says the Scotsman:WORRIED Afghans switched off their mobile phones yesterday as rumours spread that a deadly virus could be contracted by answering calls from “strange numbers”. Powered by...