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Clickety-clack, the typewriter’s back!

Reading Time: 3 minutes I’m having fun relearning how to use a manual typewriter. it’s like riding a bicycle. You don’t forget, exactly. But if you saw me trying to ride a bicycle nowadays, you’d get a good laugh.

Continue reading Clickety-clack, the typewriter’s back!

Howard FieldingAugust 5, 2022August 13, 20226 Comments
HUMOR, LIFE, ON WRITING, SHORT TAKES

Those pesky personal pronouns

Reading Time: < 1 minutes The simplest solution to avoid the whole pronoun identity problem is to avoid the third person singular entirely. Each person has a name. Use it. Continue reading Those pesky personal pronouns

Howard FieldingFebruary 4, 2022February 5, 2022Leave a comment
FICTION, HISTORY

The Moral Equivalent

Reading Time: 7 minutes – SHORT STORY – In this scene from “He Said, She Said,” the owner of the Morning Sun and Evening Star tells “the troops” just what it means to go to war with an unseen enemy. Continue reading The Moral Equivalent

Howard FieldingApril 9, 2020November 11, 2020Leave a comment
ON WRITING

NaNoWriMo wrap-up

Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING -November is a rotten time to be attempting such a feat. It’s a short month, filled with distractions. During the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend, for example, people who actually have lives might be living them. Continue reading NaNoWriMo wrap-up

Howard FieldingDecember 2, 2019December 9, 2019Leave a comment
FICTION

‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 5

Reading Time: 3 minutes – FICTION – Morrow crouched alongside the stretcher as the ambulance attendants splinted the woman’s leg. Still unconscious, she inhaled sharply in pain as they lifted her into the back of the ambulance. Continue reading ‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 5

Howard FieldingNovember 28, 2019December 6, 2019Leave a comment
FICTION

‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 4

Reading Time: 2 minutes – FICTION – She bumped over an overgrown rail line, barely maintaining control of her scooter as its front tire got caught in the recesses of the crossing and started to follow the tracks, as if with a will of its own. Continue reading ‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 4

Howard FieldingNovember 23, 2019December 6, 20191 Comment
ON WRITING

NaNoWriMo update: Day 21

Reading Time: < 1 minutes – ON WRITING – With about two-thirds of the words completed in three-quarters of the time allotted, I’m falling behind pace and it’s time to reassess whether it’s time to drop out of this year’s race. I do have a life to live, after all. Continue reading NaNoWriMo update: Day 21

Howard FieldingNovember 21, 2019December 9, 20191 Comment
FICTION, ON WRITING

‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 3

Reading Time: 2 minutes – FICTION – Something had happened, to her, anyway, but she was putting that behind her. Or was it still in front? With no landmarks, a useless map, not even the moon to orient her, she could be going in circles. Continue reading ‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 3

Howard FieldingNovember 17, 2019December 8, 2019Leave a comment
ON WRITING, SHORT TAKES

NaNoWriMo Update: Halfway there

Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING -My project this year, “He Said, She Said,” is a story of a 40-year friendship between two journalists — he’s a conservative, she’s a liberal. It plays out against four decades of changes in society, politics, technology, the sexual revolution, and the news industry itself. Continue reading NaNoWriMo Update: Halfway there

Howard FieldingNovember 15, 2019December 30, 2021Leave a comment
ON WRITING, SHORT TAKES

NaNoWriMo update

Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING – Today was National Novel Writing Month’s Double-Up Donation Day, when participants try otodouble their daily word count and to make a contribution. Continue reading NaNoWriMo update

Howard FieldingNovember 9, 2019December 30, 2021Leave a comment

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Howard Fielding's "Living Here" column ran for 25 years in The Sunday Republican of Waterbury, Connecticut. Now retired, he's still living here, online. Join him to enjoy sunsets, short uplifting essays, works in progress, special surprises, and the occasional trip down Memory Lane.

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