by sjm | Oct 26, 2023 | 1000 Words
I’m not sure if “CJ” were Dr. Wards’ real middle initials, or if it’s just a fable he shared with his pathology students in their first year of medical school, or maybe it was the second year. I can’t remember now, almost forty...
by sjm | Mar 1, 2023 | 1000 Words
I finished Nabokov’s “Pale Horse.” It is one of those books that is in those various lists of the top ten list of best novels ever, along with James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” “The Brothers Karamazov” “Lolita”, also...
by sjm | Mar 1, 2023 | 1000 Words
I’ve been remembering my dreams more than I used to. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s related to my Apple watch and obsession with nailing at least 7 hours of sleep nightly so I don’t get more demented. The app says I don’t get much deep...
by sjm | Feb 10, 2023 | 1000 Words
So I’ve been reading this book about style and writing and about 25% in it got me in the mood to start up again, but then I got busy, and then I got tired. I spend more time reading about writing and reading others to learn how to write better than I spend on...
by sjm | Jan 11, 2023 | 1000 Words
So I’m over 60,000 words into my paralell coming of age stories of a boy and a girl in two different life situations, and still, I can’t stop my recreational reading. Oh, I tell myself that it’s research and that it’ll be better for me, which...
by sjm | Dec 31, 2022 | 1000 Words
Is the working title of my novel in progress. I’m about 60,000 words in, all in the Scrivener program, which I don’t understand at all other than it is a stripped down word processor, and presumably I am a few clicks away from it spitting out a manuscript....
