I took this blog down for a while, absolutely convinced I was done with it because 1) I’d run out of ideas for stuff to write about, 2)convinced myself that the stuff I did want to write about here was better used as either material in the novel I’m writing or as material for the […]
I posted this to Twitter yesterday, but I think it deserves to be included her for the archives, because Twitter will eventually go away. I Grew Up Extremely Religious and was Anti-Abortion for Most of My Life and It Gave Me Some Terrible Views on Sexuality and Gender That I’m Still Working Through and I […]
I have a longer, more complicated essay about my life as an accidental editor that I’m working on, but for our purposes here you just need to know that for the last seven years I’ve been known more as an editor than a writer. This hasn’t been all bad–it gave me a nice platform to […]
No, this isn’t an away message, it’s me finally getting down in print some thoughts I’ve had floating around in my head about fishing. I’ve never been a big fisherman. My grandpa took me quite a bit when I was younger and I know I had a tackle box at one point, but all I […]
I’m pleased today to be over at Art Taylor‘s site with a First Two Pages essay about my story from the Go-Go’s anthology edited by Holly West about my attempts–some successful, some not so–at writing authentic non-white, non-male characters. http://www.arttaylorwriter.com/2019/03/26/the-first-two-pages-mercenary-by-bryon-quertermous/?fbclid=IwAR27d27Hq7whLhJP6Xpulzn9CdFo1AwwjIs6yix_2ONLvidrLdVisnr8Stw
Old me would have written a long, ranty post about how we had our debit card held up for the entire weekend due to a hotel error that took way to long to resolve, but I’m trying to move past that, so I’ll just say that not having much money for the weekend turned into […]
We’re now deep into February and I still have my gym memberships, and more importantly, I’m still using my gym membership. Not always the same way from week to week, but using it more than I ever have in decades. My first gym experience came in high school when I had fleeting dreams of being […]
I did not take a photo of the view from our room when I arrived because I was too focused on the size of these beds. They were advertised as Queen beds, but are clearly full size beds. After spending way too long arguing with the staff and managers over this and showing them the […]
Every year Laura Lippman does a one word resolution challenge and I really like the idea. Instead of coming up with a task list of dubious usefulness, it takes all of the swirling ideas and thought and inspirations in my head and solidifies them around one solid theme. So this year my word is QUALITY. […]
Last year sucked. Hardcore. Personally, professionally, socially, 2017 was one of the worst years in recent memory. This year wasn’t exactly a full 180, but aside from a spring of depression and some professional issues, it’s been a million shakes better and a lot of that is due to folks reading this–family, friends, readers, and […]
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