I was up early for real this morning. The alarm rousted me at six in the morning; it was sometime between three and three-thirty that I had closed my eyes, and closer to four that I was asked to shut off the light. However, last night I was told that the girl who [...]

AMERICAN IMPERIUM:
Its 2020 Common Era, and do you know where your children are? The government does, but that’s not much of a worry to most of your neighbors. Keep your nose clean, and be loyal, and hard-working and you’ll do all right in America.
The governing system has been changed slightly. No [...]

Ed replied in Mayhem, Mecha, and Mythos. He’s wondering what to do to get back going.
If you could explain that to him and me, I’d be grateful.

A writer needs to learn to notice, and give names to details. A frequent problem of young writers I’ve been told is not giving enough details; to not I think make it clear what is happening where to whom. Or as my English teacher said, Eric, you can’t rewrite what isn’t there.
So the [...]

I was awakened from a dead sleep late this morning (of course, one must recognize that I did not head for that sleep until early this morning–when you are going to bed while others are rising, late morning is an early time to awaken). The phone was for me. The person I did [...]

The Isle of the Mighty in the Cyrston Sea is a huge island running two-fifths of the length of the sea, or slightly over a hundred Brehon Miles. Its about fifty Westing Great Yards wide (its traditional to measure north to south in Brehon, and west to east in Westing due to Brehon being [...]

Thanks in part to a few interruptions, it was six in the morning by the time I managed to finish yesterday’s Tuesday workload. That’s not a complaint, just a fact; some of the interruptions were enjoyable, and other than sitting in the car waiting for my wife to come out of work (during which [...]

It has been the sort of strange day that leaves me unhappy. I was rousted sometime before noon (which, as I have mentioned before, is early when you turn out the lights between four and five in the morning), and told that I was supposed to drive thirty-five minutes to pick up one of [...]

I’m running Mentat through a world that has Mental Powers, Mecha, Lovecraftian Mythos, and a fight against evil aliens.
Here’s some high points in the construction of a world…
1. Post-apoc brought about by alien KE bombing.
2. Previous society was hi-tech late 21st century with a Moon Base and robots
3. Current society is a warped post-apoc where [...]

Wow. It gave me back the draft. Apparently it did save it–that is, it saved the second version, the one that it told me I did not have authorization to edit. Since I did all that work, I’ll include it now:
I hit a glitch.
I wrote a rather long post a few minutes ago, and submitted [...]