A Far Out Fantastic Site

James Earl Jones ("Star Wars", "The Lion King"), Jan. 17, 1932 - Sept. 9, 2024 Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons I got a late start writing this post, so it will be a short one.  I don't really have a lot going on this week to talk about as far as any updates in my writing projects go. In science fiction news, James Earl Jones, who did the voices of  Darth Vader in the original "Star Wars" trilogy and Mufusa in the original animated feature of "The Lion King", died on September 9th. He was 93. Mike Glyer down at his blog, File 770, has a short but nice article that pays tribute to him.  As of this writing, I'm almost done proofreading one story for my upcoming short fiction collection, " Bad Apps ".   I'm about two pages away from completing the proofreading which is mostly for grammar and mechanics. The other story I'm currently working on for the collection, I'm about halfway through in revising the main character. 

It's the first Wednesday of the month and so it’s time for another Insecure Writer’s Support Group (IWSG) blog hop ! In an IWSG post, we writers bring our writing challenges and problems out into the open to share with each other and try to offer solutions.  Optional Question for September Last time, I mostly skipped the optional question of the month and so just gave it a very brief answer. However, my answer to this month’s optional question was one that I wanted to go over a little more, so I’ll mostly be focusing on that. And that question is: Since it's back to school time, let's talk English class. What's a writing rule you learned in school that messed you up as a writer? In my senior year of high school, I had this creep of an English teacher who was always downgrading my writing no matter what I did to improve it. This was a time when I had fairly recently decided to go for a career in writing/journalism and had been ace-ing my English classes in my previous ye