Remember to Shave!: Remember, everyone:  New Year’s Day is Shave Day!  Starting January 1, be sure to fol.. http://tinyurl.com/y9u8gqw

Why You Need To Tweet: Okay, it’s time.  If you’re not on Twitter already, please take a half-hour .. http://tinyurl.com/yc5t8ns

On Having Piles: One of my father-in-law’s favorite jokes is to say that someone who’s wealthy has .. http://tinyurl.com/yam99k3

Meetiversary 11: Today is Wendy and my “meetiversary,” the anniversary of our first face-to-face m.. http://tinyurl.com/yhp4qje

Sherlock Rocks!: Yes, it’s true.  The new Sherlock Holmes movie is awesome.  It’s a ton of fun from.. http://tinyurl.com/ydn32n9

Halfway Point!: I’ve just passed the halfway point in my current major writing project, a graphic novel I.. http://tinyurl.com/y96csku

Clearing the Decks: So we’ve gotten through Christmas, right?  All the holiday preparations are finished,.. http://tinyurl.com/ydf922w

All’s Quiet: Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are two of the few occasions during the year when publishing.. http://tinyurl.com/y9jmz32

Day of Intensity: Today, I worked extra-hard and reached excellent productivity levels across the board.  For s.. http://tinyurl.com/yb3plrz

Holidazed: Today just shot away from me like a kid’s helium balloon zipping into the sky.  I worked extra.. http://tinyurl.com/yc2d4ax

Roaring Along: I’ve been working pretty hard on a new project lately, and I’m really roaring along... http://tinyurl.com/yetclfe

iPod Envy: Just got done setting up a new iPod Touch which I’ll be giving as a Christmas gift, and I have.. http://tinyurl.com/ykb7eef

3 Snow Blows/1 Day: That’s right!  I had to clear our driveway with the snow blower three times on Saturd.. http://tinyurl.com/yccjaaz

Weekend Missions: This weekend, I will face numerous missions, mostly related to holiday preparations…and.. http://tinyurl.com/ye346rr

Bad Elf Rocks!: If you’ve got a dark sense of humor about the holidays, like me, be sure to check out Ba.. http://tinyurl.com/yckrm7p

Xmas Locomotive: Like a speeding locomotive, Christmas is barreling toward me, and I’m not ready for it. .. http://tinyurl.com/y9fg7zg

Staying Cool: It’s always better to stay cool instead of getting fired up in a stressful situation.  This.. http://tinyurl.com/y9pdnnk

Edison’s Frankenstein Is Coming!: A story of mine, “A Snowman’s Chance in Hell,” is fea.. http://tinyurl.com/ye4hl7z

Back from Philly: Just rolled in from Philadelphia this evening after a great weekend.  In addition to speaking.. http://tinyurl.com/ye4dzr5

Philly Fantastic: We’re in Philadelphia this weekend, having the best time ever!  I spoke at a meeting of.. http://tinyurl.com/yc5z65j

Swimming Across Another State: I swam across another state today…Delaware, I think.  See, at the YMCA, th.. http://tinyurl.com/yjmjbag

Frightful Weather: Well, it’s our first real blow of the winter!  Even as I type this, sleet or freezing .. http://tinyurl.com/ylfalbj

What Next?: The time between Thanksgiving and New Year’s can be a slow one in publishing.  All the more r.. http://tinyurl.com/yd74ksp

Busy, busy day: In spite of a splitting migraine-style headache, I worked extra hard today on multiple projects.. http://tinyurl.com/yjh6698

Snowball’s Chance: Well, it’s started.  The snowy season here in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, that is. .. http://tinyurl.com/yb3xoha

Food Poisoning Fini: My wife, I’m pleased to announce, has finally recovered from her bout of severe food.. http://tinyurl.com/yl5cvsx

Ideas Aplenty!: Sometimes, I’ll have so many ideas about a project, it can be difficult narrowing them do.. http://tinyurl.com/yexvtad

Free Essay + Thank You!: I hope you’ll check out my free essay on the TV show Supernatural, which is avai.. http://tinyurl.com/ylnozt8

Free E-Day Essay! 1 Week Only!: One of my published essays is now available free online!  It’s from In th.. http://tinyurl.com/yhace6w

Symphony of Sickness: Okay, Wendy wasn’t the only one steering the porcelain bus Sunday night.  My brothe.. http://tinyurl.com/yd5nft6

Here Comes the Bug!: Recently, I got some good advice that it might help my overall time management if I took a.. http://tinyurl.com/ybad96a

Time (Mis)management: No matter how hard I try, I can’t seem to manage my time properly.  I make to-do li.. http://tinyurl.com/ykrkewa

Pot Luck Theater: The Big Stink: The Big Stink rolled into town after six months of living high on the hog in B.. http://tinyurl.com/yfwhpld

Thankful for You!: Lots to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, like family, health, work, and writing…but .. http://tinyurl.com/ycuk8z3

Black Cat Impact: Monday morning, a black cat crossed my path on my way to work.  The bad luck has been with me.. http://tinyurl.com/ybemoos

Snowman’s Chance: Time to announce a new story, I think.  This one’s slated for the upcoming anthol.. http://tinyurl.com/yk6ha9t

The Flog:: When my plane touched down in Rome this morning, my assistant Hogshead said the same thing he’.. http://tinyurl.com/yhbskb4

Turkey Day Blues: So this is it, the big Thanksgiving week already.  Unbelievable.  Time is flying by so fast, .. http://tinyurl.com/yzbphjh

Bodies in Motion…and at Rest: Seems like my whole family’s in motion or about to be right now.  My .. http://tinyurl.com/y87j94s

Pot Luck Theater: Tofu Delights: And that was when Jeremy discovered he had the power to turn anyone or anythin.. http://tinyurl.com/yb7dqsm

Arctic Wasteland: The offices where I work are locked in a perpetual freezing climate.  It’s truly an arc.. http://tinyurl.com/ygdk6yj

New Book: The Trouble With Heroes!: I have a story in a brand new book, available now!  The book, The Trouble W.. http://tinyurl.com/ybsgkww

Proposal Magic: It’s one of the rules of my day job that whenever a major holiday rolls around, so too do.. http://tinyurl.com/yzfjh5y

The Flog: Dirty Hands McGee: The bathroom turned to flames of rage around me.  I could hardly see straight.  On.. http://tinyurl.com/yk856jh

MadMenitis: I know, I’m a week behind, but Wendy and I just watched the season finale of Mad Men tonight,.. http://tinyurl.com/yf5g5r7

Decked: I can’t believe it!  We’ve got the outdoor Christmas lights up!  It’s not even Thanks.. http://tinyurl.com/yjbua32

Pot Luck Theater: Applecrumb’s Epiphany: …and in those last moments, as the life’s blood rush.. http://tinyurl.com/yeld3ow

X-Mas X-ing: It’s time to do my Christmas shopping and I darn well know it.  But have I started yet?  Do .. http://tinyurl.com/ydgxmam

Stopping Time: No matter how many times I click the buttons on my stopwatch, it won’t actually stop time... http://tinyurl.com/ycr5grs

DeutschBro: My brother, Scott, is in Germany as we speak!  The lucky stiff’s picked the perfect time to v.. http://tinyurl.com/ybsqe9r

The Flog: Flying Lessons: The craziest thing happened today during my lunchtime flying lesson:  when I stepped .. http://tinyurl.com/yg3xjcy

Tree Erected: This might be the earliest we’ve ever put up the Christmas tree!  This evening, I took it o.. http://tinyurl.com/ydh6ygu

Mission: Drink Sneakage: Went to the movies today with my brother, Scott, to celebrate his 50th birthday.  Okay.. http://tinyurl.com/y9uss4g

Pot Luck Theater: Man-uh Montana: Wilbur Cleats took a page from that Montana girl on the kids’ TV show. .. http://tinyurl.com/y8srm8m

Many Beverages: This evening, I celebrated my friend Crippen’s birthday by enjoying a few beers at my fav.. http://tinyurl.com/ycukvj3

Erotic Cake: Okay, today was nothing special for the most part.  Busy at work, busy after work dealing with iss.. http://tinyurl.com/yd9ubf5

Ribs, Baby, Ribs!: Why didn’t I go to Savannah’s Southern Style Takeout before today?  Who knows?  .. http://tinyurl.com/yz9e6co

Hween @ Wlmrt: Spent Halloween at home this year, no plans for a change.  Usually, we go to a party at my niece.. http://tinyurl.com/y9tpk6a

Pot Luck Theater: Leafing Around: 300 years from now, humankind has turned autumn into an even more festive occ.. http://tinyurl.com/ygwwgjg

Oh Joy: Well, I got through trick or treat tonight!  Had to go stand at the end of the sidewalk and hand out ca.. http://tinyurl.com/yle9agt

When to Tank: Sometimes, you just gotta give up.  Knowing when to do so, I think, is critically important to su.. http://tinyurl.com/ylqm4ag

Candy, Man: Okay, so I broke down and sneaked candy bars out of the treats my wife bought for Halloween trick o.. http://tinyurl.com/yk7w7je

The Flog:: When I rode in from the jousting tournament today, I had the strangest feeling that I wasn’t q.. http://tinyurl.com/yk8m3vf

Curb Crackup: Just watched the latest episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO, and it completely cracked me up! .. http://tinyurl.com/yfok4oc

A Day Off…Kind’a: Today, I pretty much took a break from writing…from actual composition, any.. http://tinyurl.com/yjpx2w9

Pot Luck Theater: Ladybug Hell: What a perfect day for a bike ride on the wooded trail!  The sun was shining, t.. http://tinyurl.com/yhz6bel

In-Between Time: I seem to be in one of those in-between times right now…in between projects, in between .. http://tinyurl.com/yzkz2wt

Next???: Now that I’ve finished the story I was writing on deadline, I’m faced with one of the most.. http://tinyurl.com/yjt6mfs

Story’s Done!: At least for the moment, my latest story’s done and sent!  What a great feeling!  I .. http://tinyurl.com/yfh5dmf

The Flog: The New TV Season: My favorite new reality show of the season?  “Leper Colony,” obviously.. http://tinyurl.com/yfsjzhm

Edits Continue: The revisions continue on my current story!  My first reader had another set of edits after revi.. http://tinyurl.com/yg3cuga

Art Show Revisited: Once again, I’d like to present some amazing artwork related to my fiction…in th.. http://tinyurl.com/yjecnmt

Pot Luck Theater: Where the Tame Things Are: Little Rufus Gravitas was like an island of calm in the heart of a .. http://tinyurl.com/yknqkfv

Revision Collision: Hard at work on revisions to my latest story, as recommended by my first reader (and wife), .. http://tinyurl.com/yf2rhse

Serial Killer Artwork: From time to time, I’ve posted some of the artwork that has accompanied my stories.. http://tinyurl.com/ygrseg2

Draft Done!: I’ve finished the first draft of a story I’ve been working on for a November 1 deadlin.. http://tinyurl.com/ykfhbcs

The Flog: Dodgephlegm: Another glob of phlegm sailed past me and splattered against the wall of the shower.  I .. http://tinyurl.com/yls5pf9

Snax Attax: Snacking is my crutch when writing.  I admit it!  My name is Bob, and I’m a writer-snackaholi.. http://tinyurl.com/yjqw4vn

Rib Break: My wife, Wendy, has broken a rib, so the weekend has taken an ugly turn.  She’s been through t.. http://tinyurl.com/ygvbfrb

Pot Luck Theater: Blackmail Backwards: Norris Leitmotif found himself staring down the very large barrel of a o.. http://tinyurl.com/yfg8y7x

Company’s Coming: Well, it’s shaping up to be an unproductive weekend.  At least the potential is t.. http://tinyurl.com/ygrcsk8

Queries Aplenty: Working hard to polish and send out novel queries this week, making up for lost time.  Sent th.. http://tinyurl.com/ybq4lju

Made in J-Town: Time for a special treat!  A few years back, I worked with a local artist, K. Brandon Wilt, to .. http://tinyurl.com/y9vaz38

The Flog: Wretched Beef: I missed the ground beef while unloading the groceries from the car yesterday.  One po.. http://tinyurl.com/y9qdm27

Day? What Day?: Did you ever get to the end of a day and wonder what exactly you did during that day?  ThatR.. http://tinyurl.com/ycx3tdm

Overseas House-ing: It’s always fun to see my work appear in other countries.  Of course, anything on the.. http://tinyurl.com/ycnvh8k

Pot Luck Theater: Filament Fisk Fails: 9:18AM: Five months after the death of Filament Fisk, every thread-based.. http://tinyurl.com/yhwup4j

Congrats and Thanks!: Congratulations!  Thanks to you, The Fictioneer blog and website has reached a record num.. http://tinyurl.com/y8jdtsu

Mr. Flood 2: Yesterday, I posted a piece of artwork that accompanied my story, “Fear of Rain,” in t.. http://tinyurl.com/ybszq39

Meet Mr. Flood: One of the coolest things about having a story published is the awesome artwork that accompanie.. http://tinyurl.com/yzkrmkk

The Flog: Motivatovamoose: When I woke up this afternoon, my motivation was gone.  I couldn’t believe it... http://tinyurl.com/yc4wfez

Big Week: I’ve got big plans for my fiction writing this week.  Time finally to overcome some of the issu.. http://tinyurl.com/yahhtac

Goofing Around: How much writing did I do today?  Zero.  But that’s okay.  Wendy and I spent Friday eveni.. http://tinyurl.com/yb5e69z

Pot Luck Theater: Spin, Carlos, Spin!: Somewhere in the Afterworld, Carlos is still spinning.  In a way, you co.. http://tinyurl.com/yapvox5

Struggle On: I’m finally feeling better today, after a week of intense headcold crappiness.  Also getting.. http://tinyurl.com/ybhpkyl

Butt in Chair Strategy: Sometimes, I get off track in the fiction writing realm.  This week, for example, I̵.. http://tinyurl.com/ybdd4tp

On the Bright Side…: …the cold has moved into my lungs.  The slightest provocation will send me into.. http://tinyurl.com/lstmk7

The Flog: Bupkus’ Lament: Today is the twenty-fourth anniversary of that fateful day in Prague.  It’.. http://tinyurl.com/ksc3hf

Sick!: Yes, I am sick.  It’s official:  I have a cold.  My nose won’t stop running, my body feels ac.. http://tinyurl.com/lewfol

Am I Sick?: I’m hoping it’s just sinuses, because I’m really not in the mood for a cold, but i.. http://tinyurl.com/lx95p3

Pot Luck Theater: Imaginary Pet: The first time it happened, Colette was out with some people and needed an excu.. http://tinyurl.com/ls3sq5

Between Grooves: Guess I’m still between grooves on the writing front these days, a condition that seems t.. http://tinyurl.com/n5gcnw

Cover of the Future: Recently, I mentioned that my story, “One Awake in All the World,” is set to ap.. http://tinyurl.com/pxqnen

Pure Plugs: Just thought I’d drop a reminder to check out my latest editions of Pot Luck Theater and The F.. http://tinyurl.com/q9phek

The Flog: Whisperin Jim’s Theory: Whisperin’ Jim came by today, said he wanted to play him some bill.. http://tinyurl.com/ppk2rk

Torchwood Rocks: Just finished watching the 5-part BBC mini-series Torchwood: Children of Earth…and wow.  .. http://tinyurl.com/pry9j6

Pot Luck Theater: Milo’s Face: Someone once told Milo Rubberneck that if he kept making faces, his face wo.. http://tinyurl.com/p2o34t

Hero Story News: My super-hero story, “Forced Retirement,” has made the news online!  Click here to .. http://tinyurl.com/lqtav2

Birthday Quaffing: I was out celebrating my birthday tonight at my favorite local tavern, Tulune’s Southsi.. http://tinyurl.com/ktflyy

Dish Network A Go Go!: I’m going with Dish Network!  After decades of straight-up cable TV, I’m fina.. http://tinyurl.com/lp8hfy

New Super-Hero Story!: My super-hero story, “Forced Retirement,” has gone live at A Thousand Faces, .. http://tinyurl.com/momdac

Return of the Flog!: The North Pole is laid back this time of year.  I was just there over the weekend, checking.. http://tinyurl.com/lxhtkg

Flog Day: Flog (fake blog) posts return to this space Monday after a hiatus lasting since January 2008.  I hope .. http://tinyurl.com/nlprzl

Flog? What’s a Flog?: Now where did I put that illuminating insight that came to me in the course of this .. http://tinyurl.com/macrp7

Pot Luck Theater Returns!: The united man-killers of the animal world gathered around the meeting table in their.. http://tinyurl.com/nyu6ya

Title Fight: Currently, I’m struggling to rework a troubled novel of mine from last year.  It’s turn.. http://tinyurl.com/lml65g

Perspective Defective?: Currently, I’m slaving away trying to revise a novel I wrote last year, and itR.. http://tinyurl.com/lber2g

Big Week: 3133: that’s the final tally of unique monthly visitors to my website, www.thefictioneer.com, in.. http://ping.fm/n2VEQ

Thanks to You!: For the first time, my website has logged over 3,000 unique visitors in one month!  That’s.. http://ping.fm/b6fB6

Screeching Halt: Very little writing-related activity today, or all weekend for that matter.  I’m not happ.. http://ping.fm/VWTyF

Writing Holiday: Not much accomplished on the writing side today, just an hour’s worth of edits on a short.. http://ping.fm/WLnYV

Striving for Feeling: I saw the film Inglourious Basterds tonight, which was truly a singular experience…a.. http://ping.fm/RtpJx

Revision Fevah!: There comes a time in every writer’s life when revisions are the order of the day!  When .. http://ping.fm/pdFlh

Office: Cleaned!: For the first time in probably a year, I’ve finished cleaning my home office!  What a ch.. http://ping.fm/4ogb8

Productivity Ahoy: In spite of recent TechFail struggles and distractions, today turned out to be wonderfully pr.. http://ping.fm/wwyl6

Techfail Addendum: In my last post, I forgot to mention another Techfail event!  Yesterday, my Koss noise cancel.. http://ping.fm/tITlA

Techfail Continues!: As expected, Techfail 2009 continues to plague me!  This evening, I tried to fix the proble.. http://ping.fm/dzNPO

Techfail 8.09: Here we go again!  Yet another edition of Techfail has struck my world!  As regular readers of my.. http://ping.fm/O0TdE

Regaining Altitude: Finally, I’m getting back up to speed on the fiction writing!  Late July and most of A.. http://ping.fm/sbGiV

How to Wait: Writing (and publishing) teaches you many things that can apply to other aspects of life.  For exam.. http://ping.fm/fdnRw

The Lawn: I broke down and mowed the lawn today, though what I really wanted to do was finish my latest short st.. http://ping.fm/Dthvj

True Blood Rocks: Just watched True Blood for the first time, and I’m loving it so far!  No wonder it̵.. http://ping.fm/yW6iV

August Blues: The publishing world tends to slow down in the dog days of August.  People take vacations and days.. http://ping.fm/Wm2rL

Pleasant Surprises: Isn’t it great to get a pleasant surprise?  I actually had two of them today on the fi.. http://ping.fm/4sW8o

Computer Plus Fiction: I got my wife, Wendy’s, new computer all set up today plus wrote a thousand words o.. http://ping.fm/xt0O3

Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Weekend: So what’s my review of District 9?  Action-packed, thought-provokin.. http://ping.fm/2g9fF

Time Management: One of my writing mentors, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, has just posted the latest installment of wh.. http://ping.fm/qcEgk

Story, School, and Awesome Workshops: I’m happy to say I finally did some work on the current short story .. http://ping.fm/MIZBE

Clutter

One thing is clear to me:  I need to clean my home office.  As I write this, I am surrounded by piles of paper, shifting and flowing like sand dunes in a desert, threatening to engulf me.  I know it’s part of the writing game and mostly unavoidable…but it’s past time I cleaned up the [...] http://bit.ly/38yONa

Stop and Go Writing

I admit it.  I have a tendency to overplan.  I’ll pile too many activities into too short a period of time, and then I’ll wonder why on Earth I didn’t get everything done.  Case in point, this week.  I badly want to get some writing done, but I’m overbooking the week in a big way.  [...] http://bit.ly/tsg8x

Head Work

Sometimes, even when my butt isn’t in the writing chair and my fingers aren’t hitting keys on the computer keyboard, I’m still making progress as a writer.  Putting aside all the non-writing activities that contribute to general health and well-being or broaden knowledge of storytelling, I sometimes have fertile non-writing days thanks to extensive thinking [...] http://bit.ly/2RXSDQ

Goodies Restored

The other day, I wrote about part of my life as a fiction writer, the phenomenon of “vanishing goodies.”  I was talking about losing things that I think are a lock, such as a story sale or a promised check or a publishing deal.  These are all harsh realities in every writer’s life, and we [...] http://bit.ly/RDhjY

Again with the Crappy Luck

I just wrote you quite a nice post about the week, my writing, and the weekend ahead, but for some reason, WordPress made it go away when I hit “Publish.”  And now I’m out of time to work on this.  So sorry you missed out on my wonderful post, but I’ll try to make it [...] http://bit.ly/12fRd4

Little Reminder

Last night, I had the most wonderful night swim in my back yard pool.  The Moon and Mars were in full glow, the air was calm, the crickets were chirping.  It was so beautiful, and I thought about how lucky I was to be able to enjoy it.  Then, this morning, I woke up to [...] http://bit.ly/W7bSI

Vanishing Goodies

One of the hazards of writing and marketing fiction (or anything, I guess) is when you make a precious sale, and for one reason or another, it goes away.  This just happened to me again, with a short story sale to a web and print journal.  I sold my story to the journal, signed a [...] http://bit.ly/4TOCT

@TheFictioneer (Assimilated by Twitter)

I’ve known about Twitter for a long time now, since long before it became such a popular phenomenon.  From the start, I dismissed it as a useless, frivolous waste of time.  What possible value could there be in a social networking system that only let you post 140 characters at a time?  It looked to [...] http://bit.ly/jhx6a

Testing

Just a quick note as I test a new system to link up my WordPress blog with some networking sites.  I’ll let you know later if the test works!  See you then!
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