No, this was not “winter storm <some stupid dumbass weather channel name>”. Seriously, just give it up, weather channel, no one is buying it. Hurricanes get named, blizzards get a year. The blizzard of 2016. End of discussion, your marketing scheme has failed. If we must name them, the people will come up with clever,…
23.714 words. As of this morning, January 20th, I’ve written 23,714 words of literature. I’m pretty gobsmacked by that number, actually. It’s more than 4,500 words above the amount I set for myself based on a daily expected average of 959 words. I’ve completed one story but for the ending, have made real progress into…
It snuck up on me, it did. The Holidays came and went, and I’ve been on a “learn all about typewriters” binge since I got my Smith Corona before Christmas. I almost pulled the trigger on an early 1970’s Olympia SM9, considered by some to be the finest manual typewriter (portable, though it’s a big…
Happy New Year world. May 2016 be significantly better than 2015 was. That’s what happens during the ramp up to a Presidential election year in this country, we get a lot of pandering and fear mongering which seems to infect us like a virus, dumbing down our populace and turning us into frothing lunatics. I…
Today I have two reviews for you, my minuscule list of regular readers, both fresh from the deeply buried vaults of the Reynolds Files. One book, one movie. Bet you can guess the movie. Star Wars: The Force Awakens Excellent. Top notch entertainment. Returns to a “smaller is better” ideal, with strong characters, good acting,…
This post features an image of my new typewriter. Ain’t she spanking good? I’ll spend Christmas break taking it apart and cleaning it up and look forward to using it when possible. It’s never to early for New Year’s resolutions. I generally try not to make too many, we should have goals of self-improvement year…
I sometimes wonder if I missed my time. Most of my favorite authors started writing when they were younger, not ditching the dream until they were solidly middle aged to pursue it, hanging on with dogged determination until they finally broke through. Granted, many more authors started when they were young and clung tenaciously to…
Clearly I have been remiss in blogging. I am equally as remiss on twittering, or tweeting, or whatever you want to call the platform I will henceforth refer to as micro-chat. Seriously, how can anyone say anything useful in 140 characters? Most of the time I see people post, and post, and post again to…
Taking a pause from consuming vast quantities of food to consider the concept of literary fiction versus genre fiction, and shake my head sadly at the fools who continue to act as though there is a big difference and that literary is massively superior in some way. As it happened, someone decided to post on…
I’m not going to watch the news, I’m not going to watch the news. Seriously, the events of the last few days are exactly why I no longer watch the news anymore, why I listen to books in CD in the car, etc. The ridiculous fear mongering and panic from vocal idiots just pisses me…