I’m a geek. Let’s just get that out of the way before going any further. One of my wonky pleasures of late has been cruising around the Web using StumbleUpon, a sort of remote control for channel-surfing the ‘net. In a bout of weekend stumbling, I came across several websites that might be of use […]

I get some of my best ideas from my twice-monthly critique group meetings. Last night, I was commenting on the manuscript presented by one of our members and noted that the main character remained unnamed for the first 45 pages. The author responded, “why do you need to know that?” It’s a damn good question, […]