Ron Dakron's Blog

• Reading Sunday, Nov. 9 at Wordstock Portland Literary Festival

  October 15, 2008

  • I'll be reading from my new novel Mantids at Wordstock in Portland on Sunday, November 9, 2008, at noon. See you there!
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• Taking me apart

  July 31, 2008

  • Prose is like designing an animal—it works better when the muscles are hidden and you only touch fur. So I though it’d be fun to dissect some prose from my upcoming novel Mantids and explain what made me draw that particular hoof that way. The paragraph below happens in an Astoria, Oregon nudie bar where the narrator’s wife works. It’s basically scene-setting, a 360-degree scan to let ...
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