What Do You Mean By “Using The Stick-pile”? Many years ago, I was writing my first, first novel (which was never finished nor published). Every free day I had, I’d visit my favorite coffee shop, find a comfortable nook, and continue working, with my […]
Author: daletucker
Writing Talk — The Moving Goalposts
What Are “Moving Goalposts”? Good Morning! Well, let’s get right to it, shall we? Here in the United States we have a saying: “They keep moving the goalposts” by which we mean that what we think are the criteria at the beginning of a […]
Writing Talk — A New Feature
Writing Talk, What Is It? Writing Talk is a new feature of this blog with the aim of encouraging fellow writers who are engaged in the daunting process of writing a full length book. With Writing Talk, I will share some of what […]
About Me Personally
By clicking on “The Author” tab above you can read about Dale Tucker, the author, which, as I mentioned in an earlier post, is a rather boring bio, suitable for the back matter of my novel. But I have decided it is appropriate to […]
Public Domain Art Resources
Well, a few days ago I posted a resource I use for finding free ebooks in the public domain. And that has attracted a good response from readers. So today, I thought I’d offer you something else which I use regularly: I want to […]
This Young Gal Wowed Me
I found this video a couple of weeks ago. The young musician, featured in the video, plays a beautifully haunting selection of music with such mastery that when I heard it the first time it brought me to tears. I was deeply moved. Perhaps […]
Great Free eBook Resource
Henry David Thoreau Over the weekend, I rediscovered a great resource for free public domain ebooks, a huge library of them. The resource is “Wikisource: Authors” and here’s the link to the index page of authors. So I spent a happy evening last night […]
Finding the Spring of Life Again
I was age 51 when I found myself facing a personal crisis of sorts. It was winter and I was walking the levee in the community where I lived. I remember it being a very cold day. The crisis was that I did […]
Upon This Path Together
Note: I wrote this post just after publishing Wanderer as an ebook with Smashwords. I was not entirely satisfied with that edition of the novel so discontinued it. But the post itself expresses exactly what I feel for my Love. — DT I want […]
Great News!
UPDATE: Wanderer Come Home has passed the vetting process and will now be available through a number of major ebook retailers such as Barnes & Noble, Apple, Kobo, Scribd and others! Check out the PURCHASE MY COPY tab above to see if your favorite […]
Thoughts On the eBook Journey
Mid-October, last year, I “finished” my novel. I had final edited it—the entire book—and believed the work was in its final form. So, at that time, I began looking for a literary agent. Of course, before that, I had done some research into Literary […]
Coffee Shop Discussions
One thing I miss and that I used to enjoy a great deal was meeting a couple of friends at the coffee shop or the quirky bar for a discussion about Art. As a painter and living in a town where I knew more […]
Here’s My Boring Bio
So, here’s the bio which will appear in the “end matter” of my novel. End matter is a new term for me; so I’m having fun using it; but I think you know what end matter is: it’s that extra junk they include at […]
About The Novel
I’d like to give you some flavor of the novel which I’m in the final stages of preparing for publication through Smashwords in ebook form. Whew! That was a mouthful. The title of the novel is Wanderer Come Home. Our main character is 70-year-old […]
