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October 13, 2009
- This week I am attending the writing conference MUSE, which is a strictly online conference for those interested in writing, publishing and anything else to do with the writing industry. On Monday, October 12, I got my chance to pitch "Jewels" to Freya's Bower Publishing. For those who are unfamiliar with a pitch, it's basically the hook for your story. In this case we got to do a ...
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October 13, 2009
- I’ve only been a-blogging for a month now and am fascinated by the how, when, and why of it all. Especially the stats. Who loves me? For how long? What could I possibly have written to make you out there in where-ever-ville read me; me, whom you don’t even know! So, after a short story (which was well received), several doggy-humor pieces, and a couple personal posts, ...
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October 13, 2009
- I've decided that instead of writing what I know -- which is what we are told we must do -- I should write about what I don't know.I'm almost certain that what I don't know is far more intriguing than what I do know. For instance, I know that you can fit four kids, one Christmas tree, and a week's worth of groceries into a Ford Taurus station wagon. I know that Spanx were invented by angels. I ...
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October 11, 2009
- Arrange a hundred decks of cards in front of you. Choose a card. Lay it down on the table. Choose another. Then another. Then another. Lean each one against the next, each time seeking the balance point. Carefully choose your cards. Carefully build your structure. Watch it grow higher and higher. Keep this up for several months, or years.When the structure is in place, return ...
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October 9, 2009
- HIGHWAY TO OBLIVION - THE PROLOGUE --- The tiny saw-whet owl poised in the pine, eyeing the motion of the milkweed at the side of the road and her wings were swift and soundless as she swooped. A millimeter of space. A nanosecond in time. The side mirror of the speeding van. A fatal instant of contact. Patina heard the soft thud and geared down to ...
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October 9, 2009
- While prowling through the websites extolling the “Gospels According to the Agents,” I was overwhelmed by the extent of prejudice against the prologue. The hateful things said! I never had considered how offensive, how arduous a few opening pages might seem. I see the prologue in a far different light. The prologue is a candlelit dinner with a strolling violinist. The ...
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October 8, 2009
- I'll be reading at Small Press Traffic on November 7th, from my second novel, California Wasn't Good For Us. California Wasn't Good For Us is an urban Navajo story, a tingling maiden story, a story about the hate we turn on ourselves in response to racism and Catholicism. Madness, alcoholism, greed and violence destroy the Calabasas; this is the story of the one survivor, Cebolla. This novel is ...
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October 7, 2009
- I am leery of reviews on places like Amazon.com because old enemies, hackers, and crackpots can post fraudulent reviews, but now Amazon, if not everybody, seems to be taking measures to make sure reviewers review under their own names. So this recent review of my 1996 satirical novel, SUPERFAG, is a welcome entry, especially since I don't know the reviewer at all and owe him nothing, nor he me. ...
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October 4, 2009
- Here's today's poem:Meditation 232There’s an awful lotof travelin the early churchso it’s obviousthat sainthoodwould never have suited meat all.Church today was okay - quite a good sermon about relationships really - but we had one of those horrid dirge-like hymns I can't stand for the third hymn. Groan. Way too many verses in "Lord Jesus Christ, You have come to us" for my liking ...
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October 2, 2009
- Is it Friday already? Well golly gosh indeed. Here's today's poem:Meditation 231While one manbetrays his townto a bloody death,another is loweredfrom a city wallin a basketand creeps awayinto night.Perhaps it’s betterto be a woman after all.Managed to play some pretty dire golf again today, but thankfully it wasn't as bad as last week. If I could only try to remember to hit the ball with the ...
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