~ Author's Notebook ~
SEP/06/22
Missouri Diggs — Writing In The Transmississippi: Missouri, 4/13/2022
AUG/26/22
Leaving — Notes On Writing On The Overton Railroad: 4/5/2022
AUG/11/22
Rucksack Writing — A Business Hotel: California, 3/27/2022
AUG/04/22
Going Offline — The Crackpot Will Not Be Able To Email: 8/5 Thru 11/1 2022
JUL/25/22
Morpheus Rising — Musings On Libertarianism, Anarcho-Tyranny And Propaganda: 3/4/2022
JUL/22/22
Portland: Garage, Dining Room And Bar — Writing Spot #1: 3/3/2022
JUL/21/22
Writing Spots — Crackpot Scribnerism Methodology: 3/1/22
JUL/18/22
Dialogues At Dusk — A Note To Email Correspondents: Baltimore City, 7/18/2022
JUL/05/22
Modeling Western Fantasy — Paul Bingham And The Crackpot Discuss Sorcerer! The Novel: 4/4/22, Denver
JUL/04/22
Ramshackle Musehouse — Notes On Developing Ideas For Nonfiction: Denver, Co, 4/4/2022
JUN/20/22
How Retarded Is The Crackpot? — Follow Up To Words: 4/10/2022, Missouri
JUN/17/22
‘Do You Visualize Words?’ — The Mother Of A Learning Reader Wonders: 3/24/22
JUN/15/22
Flip The Hero Phone — Biography Of A Faithful Device: 3/15/22
JUN/14/22
Crackpot Journalism — Seasonal Book Notes: 3/15/22
JUN/13/22
Are Viruses Real? — A Plague Journal Addendum: Cascadia, 2/14/22
JUN/09/22
Manfood Tuesday — Cascadia: 2/15/22
JUN/08/22
Shoes And Spurs — Coasting Towards Crunch Time: Cascadia, 2/12/22
JUN/07/22
The Mushroom Hunters — Notes On Access And Support In Post-Apocalyspic Murica: 2/12/22
JUN/06/22
The Burn — Confessions Of A Late Life Pyromaniac: Cascadia, 2/8/22
JUN/03/22
The Berm — Hoodrat Civil Engineering In The Shadow Of Satan: Cascadia, 2/8/22
JUN/02/22
Nutsy’s Mom — Profile Of A Postmodern Pioneer Woman: Cascadia, 2/8/22
JUN/01/22
Ditching — A Hoodrat Journal: 2/7/22, Cascadia
MAY/31/22
Evergreen — Impressions Of The Cascadian Woods: 1/29/22 Thru 2/7/22
MAY/30/22
Weird Critter Morning — Cascadia: January 31, 2022
MAY/24/22
‘I Burn Fossil Fuel!’ — One Man’s War On Hipster Highway: Seattle Area, 1/10/22
MAY/13/22
Goodness Grace Us — The Upside Of The Downside, Or Positives About Da Vid: 2/21/22
MAY/05/22
Back The Blew — Where Is American Civic Slavishness Headed?: 2/21/22
APR/20/22
‘While You Are Still Engaged’ — A Long Time Reader Writes In: 2/10/2022
APR/16/22
March 2022 Writing Journal
APR/16/22
February 2022 Word Count
APR/16/22
Into The Gaslight & Hobo Journal — Two Spring Travel Books Completed In April 2022: 4/16/22
APR/08/22
Dream Trace — On Musing Under Overthought In Novel:1/6/22
APR/04/22
Writing Sorcerer — Dateline 2/4/2022, Cascadia, Washington
MAR/10/22
'What Do You Keep In Your Pockets?' — Miss Emm Wonders What A Hobo Keeps On His Mobile Person: 11/2/21
FEB/25/22
January 2022 Word Count
FEB/24/22
‘Your Many Horrible Books’ — A Crackpot Crisis Of Dissent: 12/28/21
FEB/23/22
White Man’s Coffin — Part Two Of The Metaphysics Of LaFond Writing As Howard: 11/29/21
FEB/22/22
White Man’s Burden — Part One Of The Metaphysics Of LaFond Writing As Howard: 11/29/21
FEB/19/22
The Keel Of Time — Musings On The Ruination Of Good Fiction Under The American Lie: 12/1/21
FEB/17/22
On Fiction — Musings On Depicting Universal Reality: 12/15/21
FEB/12/22
Crackpot Movies? — Incognegro Cues The Crackpot On The Wheel Of Time And Fiction: 12/1/21
JAN/27/22
'You Called It' — Why Not Write To Sell?: Part 6, Near Future Science-Fiction: Dateline 11/10/21
JAN/26/22
This Design — Why Not Write To Sell? Part 5, The Reason For The Short Novel This Design Is Called Paisley
JAN/24/22
Nestor & Achilles In Homo NGO Land — Why Not Write To Sell? Part 4, Sunset Saga Spoiler
JAN/24/22
Under The Simp Hand — Why Not Write To Sell? Part 3, Sunset Saga Exposition
JAN/23/22
Of The Gimp Hand — Why Not Write To Sell? Part 2, Self Help And Journalism
JAN/22/22
In Uncle Sham's Shadow — Why Not Write To Sell? Part 1, History
JAN/04/22
'As Good As My Word' — A Dialogue With A Fellow Writer: Dateline 10/28-11/7/21
JAN/02/22
2021 Writing Report — And December 2021 Word Counts
JAN/01/22
Mind Hatch — The Forward To Blunders Of The Divisible World: 12/14/21
DEC/30/21
Dell And Jenn — A Utah State Forest: 9/29/21
DEC/29/21
'Do They Know?' — Three Old Men Discuss Women: 10/5/21
DEC/29/21
'Just A Tich' — Picking, Cleaning And Bottling With Deb And Bob: Dateline 9/21/21
DEC/28/21
Hop Along Helen — The Journal Of An Abused Chicken, Kamas Valley, Utah 9/22/21 To...
DEC/27/21
The Title — Considering The Header For Your Life's Work: Dateline 9/21/21
DEC/26/21
Aging With A Story — 'How Is Your Fiction Reflective Of Your Changing Worldview?' Mister Grey Cues The Crackpot: 9/28/21
DEC/25/21
Michelle Of Ogden And Sylvia Of Nabbinggaol — Ogden, Utah, Riverside Golf Course Diner: 10:20 AM, Wednesday, September 15, 2021
DEC/23/21
What Enables Leviathan — Musings On Social Control
DEC/16/21
'Back To Their Turnip Field' — Teutonic Fist Cues The Cracked Pottery On The Indo-European Lottery
DEC/09/21
Techtard One To Boomer Control — The Crackpot Situation In The Second Year Of The Ascension Of Our Lord Floyd: 12/7/21
DEC/09/21
November 2021 Word Count
DEC/06/21
My Joyless Lips — Yeti Waters Communes With The Crackpot: Dateline 9/14/21
NOV/29/21
Keyless — Thursday, September, 2 2021
NOV/24/21
Pulp Fiction Podcast Topics — A Proposed Subject Outline From James LaFond To Richard Barrett: 9/2/21
NOV/23/21
Haft And Almuric In Print — New And Old Fiction Of The Brutal Type
NOV/17/21
October 2021 Word Count
OCT/27/21
Gamers Of Earth — Missive To The Nimbus-Brained Reader: 8/11/21
OCT/20/21
'I Think Of You' — Traveling Jeanie Discusses Travel With A Hobo
OCT/18/21
Afterchild — Sunday, 8/1/21, A Writing Exercise
OCT/05/21
Fractional Autonomy And Mortality — A Reader Wonders If The Crackpot Might Be Suicidal: 10/5/21
SEP/30/21
September 21 Word Count
SEP/25/21
Jason — Lunch With A Fellow Writer: Carney, Baltimore County, MD, 1:30-3:30 P.M. 7/21/21
SEP/24/21
Beyond The Pale Complete — At 28,305 Words
SEP/18/21
Ocular Defamation — Is The Crackpot Going Blind Or Losing His Mind?
SEP/09/21
Bend Time Completed — An Overton Railroad Draft: #63 In The Unpublished Book List
SEP/09/21
A Wrong Time Ago Completed — An Overtone Railroad Draft: #62 In The Unpublished Book List
AUG/31/21
August 2021 Word Count
AUG/30/21
Peeper Reaper — Michael Collins And James Discuss A Writer's Eyes
AUG/15/21
Monkey Lyre Thralldom — 'Jack London's Discipline': Rusty Wants To Know If 1,000 Words A Day Is Good Writing Advice
AUG/09/21
July 2021 Word Count
AUG/01/21
'Sleepy Head' — 14 Pages In The Life Of A Gentle Soul
JUL/24/21
Traditional Publishing — Crackpot Response To What Seems The Only Legit Literary Agent In America
JUL/21/21
'Dere Goes Midal Urff' — The Most Reviled Science-Fiction Writer Tries His Rude Hand At High Fantasy
JUL/20/21
Anachronistic Publishing? — The Care And Kneading Of Your Pet Graphomaniac
JUL/18/21
Truescream Radio — Horror Semi-Serene: 6/30/21
JUL/06/21
June 2021 Word Count
JUN/07/21
May 2021 Word Count
MAY/15/21
Shadow Ban — 'James, The Logic Of Steel And The Fighting Edge Are Listed Only As Used On Amazon?'
MAY/14/21
Lead Time Under The Gloomshine — Writing And Publication Notes From The Graphomaniac
MAY/07/21
'This Thing' — Science-Fiction Backstory Discussed By An Actual Science-Fiction Supporting Character
MAY/03/21
April 2021 Word Counts
APR/19/21
In This Hat, He Believes: — The Crackpot Hobo Historian Living Out Of A Backpack Declares Social Justice Mommydarity—At Last!
APR/10/21
Hobo In The Hood — Nostalgia Bathing In The Meat-Puppet Metropolis That Spawned Me
APR/02/21
March 2021 Word Counts
MAR/28/21
Writing In Mordor — Spring Posting
MAR/21/21
Reality And Escapism — Discussing Herd Immunity To Reality In The Science-Fiction Setting With Electric Dan
MAR/07/21
Untangling Story Ideas — Brian Jewell Consults The Cracked Pottery On Writing Multiple Stories
MAR/07/21
Alien Abduction? — A Missive To The Readers From A California House Of Ill-Repute: Dateline 3/7/21
MAR/07/21
Uprising Completed 3/1/2021 — A Wendigo Short Novel
MAR/07/21
February 2021 Word Counts
FEB/22/21
On The Road Again
FEB/22/21
‘True Science Fiction’ — Brian Jewell And The Crackpot Discuss The Gaslit Night
FEB/22/21
‘Cocked In Those Days’ — Captain John Smith Parses The Crackpot’s Managed Decline
FEB/22/21
'Creativity Has Its Madnesses...' — Fire Wonders About The Compelled Writing Experience
FEB/22/21
'Hea Humbassa' — German Coffee Folk Music For Rebel Knell From Beowulf
FEB/21/21
Let The World Fend For Itself In Our E-store — Big Ron's Baltimore: A Working Man's View Of Urban Blight
FEB/18/21
Apathy Yore 2041 — Backstory For Beyond Rainbow Bridge
FEB/14/21
Cube Completed — The Redaction Of Bronson Caan: A Novel Of 2121
FEB/13/21
Rebel Knell Cover — Notes To The Artist For The Cover Of The Most Politically Incorrect Novel In History
FEB/12/21
Rebel Knell Combatants — A Brief On The Composition Of CSA Task Force Baku, And Protagonists
FEB/06/21
Pre-Conditions For Axis Victory — A Science-Fiction Backstory Exercise For The World Of Rebel Knell And Hurt Stoker #2
FEB/04/21
What If The Germans Won WWII? — A Science-Fiction Backstory Exercise For The World Of Rebel Knell And Hurt Stoker #1
FEB/02/21
Battling Cerebral Sprawl — Author’s Notes On Retaining Historical Focus As A Novelist
JAN/31/21
January 2021 Word Counts
JAN/30/21
Fire And Vice Completed — Soliloquy 2021: January
JAN/28/21
'Hold On Mr. LaFond, This One's Gonna Be Weird' — Beowulf And The Crackpot Discuss His Least-Read And Largest Work
JAN/28/21
Recommended Avoidance Reading — With Brian, The Man With A Known Name
JAN/25/21
Dream Eater — Backstory Notes For The Science-Fiction Novel About The Neanderthal Diaspora
JAN/25/21
All In — More Bad Thoughts In Print From The Crackpot Suppression Archive
JAN/22/21
Completed Beyond Rainbow Bridge — The Curious Afterlife Of Dandelion Machi
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The Jericho Bone (an updated edition of Black and Pale), Drink Deep the Night, and the short novels Yusef of the Dusk, Ire and Ice, and Under an Iron Crown
 
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