Progress Post

I made a sobering discovery about my house this week, and it affects my goal to record two sample chapters from Wayland’s Hammer Book 1: Duty of Prisoners. Did I meet the goal of recording those two chapters for my newsletter? Also, there’s some other progress to report on Wayland’s Hammer Book 2: Resistance Movement […]

It’s 2026, and my vacation’s ending. So, we’re starting off with two causes for sadness! Joking aside, I needed my vacation time to keep my word count up. It’s one of those things that I should have anticipated, but I just didn’t think about it. Also, I came up with new supporting evidence for something […]

The month-long Real Life Family Event (RLFE) continued unabated, and that had a huge impact on my writing time this week. Compounding that is that I’m going to physical therapy for something I did to my hip. That’s not so much a time issue (the visits are around four hours a week) as an energy […]

Real Life Family Events (RLFEs) were back on the agenda this week. One of them was pretty big, too. And that’s not counting the whole Thanksgiving thing! In addition, I may have found a good use for generative AI — a use that doesn’t take work away from human folk. At least, that’s how it […]

The old saying that you don’t appreciate something until it’s gone hit home last week. In my case, it’s one of those things that underlies almost everything I do, so it’s been, let’s say, an interesting week! Also, I’m learning more and more about the audiobook tools I’m using, including some pleasant surprises. I can […]