Category: My Writing
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My Favourite 24 Posts of 2024 (The Series is now about Bluesky)
Hello again everyone, Twelve months ago I was pretty confident I was creating the last in a long-running series of collections of my Top Tweets of the Year. I joined Twitter in September of 2010, and that December I made a Top 10 of 2010, followed by a Top 11 of 2011, a Top…
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Where I Am with My Writing, and What is Coming Next
Hello everyone, It has been ten months since my last update. This is where I make the usual, “I guess no one can complain I’m bombarding you with too much content,” joke, although I imagine that is wearing thin. Why don’t I get into the meat of things? I hope this will be a short…
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My Favourite 23 Tweets of 2023 (The Final List in the Series)
Hello again everyone, I shall begin this post —as annual tradition demands— with an expression of regret for not doing more with this blog over the last year. The first fourteen months of married life has kept me busy. I will not linger over the details other than to say I am very happy, and…
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Why I’m Not Writing, and What I’ll Write Next
Hello everyone, It’s been six months almost to the day since my last update on my writing, and while I have made progress, I am not loving what I am creating. Not enough to keep doing it right now. Back in December I spoke at great length about my idea for a series of Roman…
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An Update on My Writing: 2021 and 2022
Hello again everyone and Happy New Year! Today is a traditional day for taking stock of where we have been and where we are going. I have lots of personal stuff to both reflect on and look forward to this year —very briefly, I’m getting married— but I have also put a lot of mental…
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My Favourite 21 Tweets of 2021
Hello again everyone, As has become tradition, I will begin by apologizing for a lack of content on this blog. I did a little better in 2021 than in 2020, but realistically my Twitter account is where most of my off-the-cuff writing happens these days. I could promise to do better, but I am hoping…
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A Picture 13 Billion Years in the Making
A Picture 13 Billion Years in the Making A Short Story by Geoff Micks published June 26th, 2021. The project was supposed to do for the James Webb Space Telescope what the Deep Field Image had achieved for the Hubble Telescope: Generate a mind-expanding image impossible to obtain any other way that persuaded the public…
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The English Oak
The English Oak A Short Story by Geoff Micks published June 20th, 2021 and substantially edited for entry into the Missouri Review’s 31st Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize on October 1, 2021. Acorn The forest was alive the day Acorn fell, and not just with birdsong and the movement of animals. They hardly mattered…
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Shelving My Half-Finished Sixth Novel, and Getting Back into the Writing Habit Again
Hello everyone, I wrote something about this yesterday on the Facebook page I maintain for my writing, and I suppose I should say something here too. For a while there I was much better about giving writing updates on Facebook than I have on this blog, but it’s been just shy of a year since…