I’ve started writing another book. It’s been YEARS since I wrote anything so I have to admit I’m more than a little rusty. To tell the truth, writing about my writing (i.e., blogging like this) has not been coming easy either. As you may have noticed. But let’s not cry over spilled milk (or missed […]
MY AVOCATION I had been working as an environmental engineer for almost a year when I started writing my first novel. From 1996-2000, I worked on that manuscript, tweaking it more and more each night after work. Writing was my moonlighting job. My avocation. Unfortunately, there is a stigma about engineers. Engineers aren’t very creative.
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When Diana Nyad was 30, she did something that no other person had ever done. She set the distance record for nonstop swimming without a wetsuit. That record still stands today, thirty-two years later. I was thirteen at the time, and remember watching Ms. Nyad on TV. I didn’t linger in front of the set,
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