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 […]
Category: Personal
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 […]
A Poem: “9-29”
I don’t write many poems but I have written a few. This one’s a bit dark so it’s a change from the normal feel of this blog. But change is useful too and “dark” helps us to appreciate light more. I won’t try to […]
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 […]