The Starving Theater Artist

What is a people? Names are handy labels, but what exactly is under them? You can draw endless maps showing the "Dorians" sweepi...

I dreamed up a particularly odd solution to the problem of writing an "Atlantis" story that is honest to known history and archaeo...

I have to wonder if there is such a thing as doing just enough research for a simple adventure -- when the period you want to write about ...

The more I practice violin, the more I can hear mistakes -- in myself, and in others. To properly evaluate a skill you need to have som...

There was a guest post at the Scalzi-blog that got me thinking again about secret histories. It is such a tempting idea for the fiction wr...

Back to practicing the violin. The trumpet is where it needs to be for the moment. I could squeak my way through Ecstasy of Gold but fun ...

A bit over two years ago I stopped being a free-lance contractor and started a full-time job. Well, nearly full time. I took a reduced hou...