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  • The beauty of being a story teller

    March 25, 2009

    • The beauty of being a story teller is that I have an infinite number of universes and possibilities.  If I can imagine it, it can happen, and I can imagine a lot!   I have six or eight books floating around in my head right now.  They include technical, fiction, non-fiction, children's, and other genres.  I can feel the stories growing inside me.  Sometimes they feel subtle, just kind of ...
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  • A Rerun: Juggling Genres

    October 14, 2008

    • Today's blog is a rerun of one I did about writing in several genres back in February on Billie Hinton's wonderful Mystic-Lit site. I thought it was worth repeating for people here who might find value in it. Here, then, is "Juggling Genres" in its entirety:My first novel was published in July 2003. By the end of 2008, I will have seen 12 books published with my name on the spine: five ...
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  • Whither Thou Goest, Book Proposal?

    September 23, 2008

    • I'm playing with some book proposals. Okay, I've really been working in earnest but "playing" seems like a better term for things that may never see the light of day. I'm not sure if this is just the usual insecurity between books or if it's the market.  One of the books, I might add, has nothing to do with animals. That shouldn't be surprising for anyone who knows me well and knows ...
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  • Why I Love Poetry

    July 20, 2008

    • The Mouse and the Human   by Tryfon Tolides The mouse doesn't really bother anyone. It doesn'tgo around holding up banks or shooting peoplein the face or locking them up in dank jail cellsand sticking electric prods to their genitals. It doesn'tbuild jet fighters and bomb our cities in the nameof peace in the middle of the night while we are sleeping.It doesn't plant toy mines to blow our ...
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  • What’s the Diff...

    June 2, 2008

    • --between writing fiction and poetry? folks ask me when they find out I've written a lot of poems for a novelist. Well, writing poetry transcends the personal, for me, whereas fiction relies on empathy. For both forms, I start with an image, a phrase, or an idea. Both forms distill language and meaning--in a poem every word counts, sound and syllable. In fiction, the sentences must advance ...
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