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Corona Virus and Japan
Corona Virus and Japan
This weekend was a stressful one for many people here in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. Corona virus has landed in the form of 4 people, originally brought in by a government official who went to Tokyo on a business trip. His Jr. high son (the government closed down his whole school) and a nurse and one other person have gotten it from him.
I worked an event in the city on the 23rd, and everybody was…
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Why NOT Post?
After passing the 700 post mark on my blog and then suddenly stopping my posts I thought I should step up and explain partly why this happened.
Advertisements and request emails from WordPress.com made me depressed for using their service. I am not on line to be badgered by a blog provider. If I want to take the leap into paying for a place to post, or to upgrade the sight, I would-but don’t push…
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Cracking with Wise Cracks
Cracking with Wise Cracks
My newest novel about the life and times of Doc Dickens, chiropractor and former military vet living on a small sailboat, is finally out on Amazon!
Wise Cracks is the second book in a mystery series based around Doc and his adventures, please check it out.
Using my 20 Minute PrincipleI kept track of how much time I spent on this action filled novel by making a 3×5 index card as my time sheet.…
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Cuckoo
This past summer I was able to acquire one of the Black Forest cuckoo clocks my mother had received from her father’s home. Packing it carefully into my hard suitcase and wrapped with enough bubble wrap to keep a dozen eggs safe, the clock made the long journey to Japan and was given a home on the wall of our staircase. It is visible the moment you step into our home through the front door and…
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Wise Cracks; How to write a novel on a typewriter and still have fun
Wise Cracks; How to write a novel on a typewriter and still have fun
My next novel will be Doc Dickens Wise Cracks and if that name sounds familiar it is because it is the second in my mystery series Doc Dickens, an ex-marine who was a Chiropractor for 20 year and gave it all up to sail to Florida on a small sailboat. In this second installment of his journey south he runs into trouble in the Big Apple, New York City!
I had a lot of fun hammering this out on my…
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Formatting My Novels
Recently I have been working to format my next novel and try and work out the trouble you run into with Kindle Create placing chapters on odd pages automatically, when it is best to start a chapter fresh on the odd page of a novel. Not doing so creates a less professional look to the printed copy of a book for sure, which is the focus of my recent formatting-both of my newest title and for all…
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The Long Silence
Why haven’t you been blogging you rascal?
It boils down to a man writing, and writing and writing.
The more I write the less I blog, if you get my drift?
I like to post blog articles, I really do, but writing is the priority of my life, except for teaching of course, and the two are not always in alignment with each other. I need to produce books, not blog posts…. You understand what I mean. It…
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Alarm, But No Fire
Alarm, But No Fire
The other night, at 3:47 am, the fire siren went off in my city and all of the fire engines were up and whirring in my section of town. So I got up and grabbed my camera.
Turns out it was a problem with the sensor in an apartment on the 3rd floor where the fire department could not get into, so they went through the second floor apartment and used a ladder up to the suspected room. All was…
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Picture of the Day #4 Another Waterfall This is a waterfall deep in the mountains in Japan, absolutely magical.
Getting Closer, Much Closer to Finishing My Next Book
Getting Closer, Much Closer to Finishing My Next Book
This month has been building up in my production of my new book, Wise Cracks, the second in the Doc Dickens mystery novels. It’s exciting to know I only have to hammer out the epilog, then it is time to do a full edit and start putting them in the hands of my beta readers. Makes me happy!
Keep writing.
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Free books this Weekend!
Free books this Weekend!
A quick note to let everyone know my latest book, Doc Dickens Back on the Hudson, and my first novel, the one that started me on this amazing writing journey, The Intelligent Octopus, will both be free give-aways on amazon.com on the 19th and 20th, this coming weekend. Best way I can help all of you get into reading this coming winter! Enjoy.
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Butt in Chair or Foot on Mountain?
Butt in Chair or Foot on Mountain?
This past month I have been working steadily on my latest novel. That has been a roller coaster of interesting twists and fun writing, but if I didn’t get out and do something physical I would melt down.
My wife and I headed to a nearby mountain known as Shishiku and Oku Shishiku (oku means deep and is a taller mountain). We spent the morning and lunch hiking among fall flowers and fallen…
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Working It Out
Guess you should file this under the heading of an “update” as I am mainly making headway on my next book in the Doc Dickens mystery series. The novel is coming along and I am now doing a type-through of the draft for the completed novel. I had written about 3 drafts so far, but in this latest incarnation I got stuck at the end of chapter 2 which made me rework and reinvent the outline to be…
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But today-explode-fly apart-disintegrate!
Wise words for the writer in us all from Zen and the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury. I was looking through this book for the millionth time this morning and was struck again by the power of simple statements. All we have is today so make the best of it while you can.
Enjoy the writing you do, the life you are living, the people you are sharing your time with on this earth. We never know when…
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Waterfall, Picture of the Day #3
Waterfall, Picture of the Day #3
This is the Torigoyi Gorge waterfall, and it was the best I have ever seen it!
Keep writing!
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What!?!?!? Picture of the Day (#2)
What!?!?!? Picture of the Day (#2)
Taken at Lake Nojiriko in Nagano while on the boat cruise. A person dressed up in a dog costume(?) holding a dog(?). Though it is an odd figure, what with the rat like tail and the slanted eyes, and no that is not a slur-take a look for thyself.
Keep writing!
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Picture of the Day
Picture of the Day
The picture of the day comes to you from Hakuba Japan, and guess what the picture is about?
Give up? Ski rentals, yep that makes me think of spicy stuff every time!
Keep writing!
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