Writing
November 12, 2009
- Has anyone, in the course of their manuscript, made a concerted effort to reduce the use of the word "and" by a half (or more). To do so is stating to look better to me.
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November 12, 2009
- I started writing during my "hermit years," a decade I spent living in a simple log home I designed and built halfway up a mountain in the rural Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. My life in the high desert of Albuquerque is quite different than it was when I was tucked away in the woods of Vermont, but the past recently caught up with me in a very pleasant way. Two friends in Vermont I ...
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November 12, 2009
- Kafka partook of all three in Prague, though he felt the city was his prison. Kudos for mentioning that Kafka wrote in one of the houses on Alchemist's Lane (a book of short stories). However, a "tsk tsk" for saying Prague Castle was the setting of Kafka's THE CASTLE. It was not. Prague: Romance, revolutions - and beer Prague's culture, cafés and fairytale architecture make it an ...
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November 11, 2009
- Mrs. Reed, my high school English teacher, sang in the choir of the First Methodist Church with my grandmother, so when she caught me reading Max Dimont's Jews, God and History instead of the assigned novel, The Vicar of Wakefield, during silent reading period and demanded to know, "Does your grandmother know you are reading that?" she assumed my grandmother would disapprove. What Mrs. ...
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November 11, 2009
- Here’s a tricky question we should all ask ourselves. Have I in fact been published? Did someone upgrade my status when my back was turned? To the best of my own recollection I have personally remained a staunch literary failure. My only venture out into the writing world has been to blog on Red Room for the past two months and to post some of my pieces on my member page. By the way, ...
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November 11, 2009
- It's shocking to me how many industries are still kicking around intact despite generations of rapid evolution. Look at the funeral business for example. We should have murdered it off 20 years ago. Yes, yes, there have been some small moments of enlightenment with regards to the ridiculously dust- bound ritual, however, it has achieved nowhere near its potential for redesign. Why if I ...
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November 11, 2009
- What does one do when one has a truly revolutionary idea? Blog? here? Maybe. It's better than trusting some Washington intern not to bury it. I certainly don't have time to publish one of my snarky, politically satiric futuristic romances on the matter. So here goes.President Obama promised not to raise taxes...ok on 95% of America. But his Administration needs funds. The States need money now... ...
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November 11, 2009
- Jack Kerouac got all jacked up on it and wrote “On The Road” in one long rambling paragraph in a three-week kick ass session. The Nazis took it when they were jumping out of planes behind enemy lines in route to their next murderous rampage. Ginsburg wrote about it. John-Paul Sartre was devoted to it. My depressed aunt has her Prozac, my worrying mom has her Valium, the ...
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November 10, 2009
- Why do we resist change? Historically, big shifts in society have often produced incredible hybrids and new models advancing technology, community, and lifestyle. When first experiencing a shift, we tend to get our thongs in a bunch, spin out of control with misguided theories and flap about with depressive bouts of unfounded angst. Yes, the current publishing model is like a hot air ...
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November 10, 2009
- It's fall. Whenever I see a black cloud rising from a field, poking fun at the setting sun, I simply say, "Beautiful."The cloud is made up of a thousand of Starling birds sharing one song, their song. Each bird was taught the song as a chick, and the song brings the flock together at the end of summer. My Starling would never be allowed to join. He wouldn't even know what they were. ...
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