Tag Archives: musing

Thursday Thoughts: On Being Thankful

Posted on November 24, 2016 by Silver James

I have much for which to be thankful. I have a family I love and am proud of, who support me. I have friends who make me smile, who stand beside me, and quite often prop me up. I am … Continue reading →

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Thursday Thoughts: Universal Investment

Posted on November 17, 2016 by Silver James

Wow. Everywhere I look I see such anger and hate. I’m not going to point fingers no matter how much I’d like to tee off on people. Wouldn’t do any good anyway. Those I’d be pointing at don’t believe they … Continue reading →

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Thursday Thoughts: Universal Secret

Posted on November 3, 2016 by Silver James

This is Day 3 of National Novel Writing Month. This is my eleventh year. Yowser. And yes, almost all of the books I wrote for #NaNoWriMo has been published. Y’all know I’ve accused the Universe of favoring writers when it … Continue reading →

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Thursday Thoughts: Other Side

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Silver James

We live in a world of dualities. Black and white. Up and down. War and peace. Light and dark. Love and hate. Good and evil. Heads and tails. Back in college, in a philosophy class, we talked about what would … Continue reading →

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The Monday That Was

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Silver James

I don’t work outside of the home any more. But I work. I write for a living. I get up every morning–sometimes seven mornings in a row, get my coffee, stumble into my office/writing cave, fire up the computer, and … Continue reading →

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Thursday Thoughts: Universal Creating Edits

Posted on October 20, 2016 by Silver James

Oops. I forgot I hadn’t set up the blog for this morning. I was doing a couple of things–writing the next chapter on the proposal for Red Dirt Royalty #7 – Deacon, which is a rollicking Christmas story involving country … Continue reading →

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Thursday Thoughts: Universal Plotting

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Silver James

Why yes, I did finally finish those short stories, thank you very much. Now it’s time to move on to the next project. I have 3 that are mostly running currently. Full manuscript for RDR#6-Kade is due November 15. The … Continue reading →

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Thursday Thoughts – Universal Dance

Posted on September 22, 2016 by Silver James

So…it seems like I have back-to-back deadlines between now and this time next year. I set the schedule so I sort of did it to myself but I thought I could manage the dance of time, inspiration, and work. Writing … Continue reading →

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Thursday Thoughts: Universal Reasons X 10

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Silver James

So here it is Thursday again. I’ll be doing #ThursThreads on Siobhan Muir’s site. I love participating in the weekly flash fiction. It’s fun. It’s productive. It’s challenging. It makes me happy. Writing makes me happy. Even when it makes … Continue reading →

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The Monday After Overload

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Silver James

I had a weekend. A long weekend. And this is Monday’s recap of stuffs. So, Friday I packed up a weekend worth of clothes, my laptop, a six-pack of Diet Cokes and drove across town to a hotel and checked … Continue reading →

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