I’ve spent over a week trying to make my word processor behave. It started with a weird tic: When I inserted a paragraph it would change the style of the previous paragraph to something else. I didn’t notice it at first, as the styles looked similar. Then other weird things started happening. The drop caps […]
Month: November 2016
The Birth of Veronica Chandler
I have several friends who write mysteries, and although “because everybody else is doing it” is usually a bad reason for doing something (unless they are running from a hundred-metre high monster), I thought I’d like to do the same. A mystery needs a detective, but a police detective would have either had too many […]
The True Name
There’s a tradition in magick that you must know the True Name of something in order to gain power over it. That goes double for story research. Some things are easy. If you want to look up how many doors there are on a 1982 Chevrolet Cavalier all you have to do is search for 1982 […]