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John Daniel Orr's Blog
September 18, 2009
- I've been working for ... uh ... I don't know how long ... on a novel. I have never written a novel before, it's mostly new to me. I've written many, many other articles for publication, however, having been a newspaper and magazine writer since the world was young, as Peter O'Toole recites in "My Favorite Year," which is one of my favorite movies. I was going through a rough patch of ...
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September 9, 2009
March 25, 2009
- First, good little Red Room blogger that I am, I will tell you that I am continuing to chip away at the block of stone that is my novel, slowly uncovering the book within. The going is slow, because, you know, I gotta keep going to my evening job and so forth. I am currently working on Chapter 28 and am guessing the book will be finished around Chapter 35 or 40 or 45. I'm not sure. Maybe 35 will ...
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January 31, 2009
- Over on Facebook people have been passing this deal around wherein they write 25 things about themselves, and tag 25 friends to ask them to do the same. Generally I have always avoided such things, but a few of my friends wrote them and I found them interesting, so wrote one myself. It follows here. If you are on Facebook and have a desire to do so, hook up with me. Maybe we could play ...
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January 27, 2009
- Do yourselves a favor: Go to http://gigapan.org and look at the amazing image of the crowd at President Obama's inauguration. The image was made using a significantly kewl device that collects approximately 90,434,876,079,876 bazillion-million pixels of a panorama, using a digital camera, a panning device and a computer, and, for all I know, Mr. Peabody's brain. In this image you can zoom in on ...
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January 7, 2009
- The U.S. is in Iraq and in Afghanistan, Israel is in Gaza, people are dying, and one of the things I think about it all is I am so grateful that separation of church and state is one of the principals that founded this weird and wonderful nation of ours. Because in America, if a religious radical -- say, a radical "Christian" -- does something ... uh ... untoward ... such as bomb an ...
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November 27, 2008
- I wrote a while ago about my friend Charles Matthews and his plight ... Now he is back and blogging, although from the care facility where he is staying, plugged into an IV. I get to call him "Pus Brain" now without being insulting, just accurate. Please look at his blog, where all is explained. Happy Thanksgiving, all. I am at work, where I just ate turkey that had been soaked in Jack ...
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November 21, 2008
- My deep apologies for not visiting here very often of late, and for not posting at all. I started a straight job in September (I think; I am a lousy historian) and it has taken a lot of time. Plus, I am writing a novel, thank God, and that takes a lot of my limited brain juice. And then, then ... my straight job required some training for a new publication system, and that took more time. And, ...
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October 2, 2008
- The last few days I have been letting my novel gestate somewhere in my person, and doing other stuff, such as reading the new Michael Connelly novel for review, and posting a new letter to the memorial site I maintain (at her family's request) for Vala Cupp, who was a wonderful and beautiful blues singer. In the novel I am most of the way through a chapter that is bugging me. It has some ...
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August 16, 2008
- ... that the blog I posted on August 10 about escaping into writing my novel was not well received in certain circles. Not that anybody said anything about it with a comment here -- which in itself is a bit of a comment -- but some people spoke with me about it directly, and not in happy ways. Oh well. But I press ahead, and had already been thinking that I had left out a big issue in that ...
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August 10, 2008
- I am finding a lot of joy in writing my novel, in a way that I find interesting -- probably many of you are already familar with this, but for me it's new -- I am loving emerging myself in the world and the characters I am creating. You ever read a novel that just sort of takes you away? It's like being in a whole other world -- maybe a world you like -- and you hate to put it down because you ...
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June 5, 2008
- The two things I do when I have some time not needed for my family or for my day job are work on my novel and play music in a blues band, which is called Serious Condition Blues Dance Band. My hours have been reduced at my day job, which is bad for paying bills, but good for being able to get some work done on the novel, and for getting out my guitar and practicing tunes. Reasonable ...
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May 16, 2008
- I have greatly missed posting here in Red Room, but I have been ridiculously busy doing things that help my family pay our mortgage. I drop in frequently to read other blogs, though! I like Red Room very much. My job at Sony Computer Entertainment keeps me pretty busy. Which is fine. It's a fascinating job. But I haven't been able to post here, and worse, have had to put my novel on backburner. ...
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April 16, 2008
- While wandering around my computer tonight I found the following, which is the start of a blog I began years ago in other circumstances, and never finished. I read through it and wondered, "What the heck was I thinking about? Where was this thing going to go?" I have no idea. And then I thought, why not let people who visit Red Room finish it for me? Because it kind of leaves ...
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April 16, 2008
- I have rejoined the ranks of people with day jobs, which has interrupted the flow of my novel, and, of course, my contributions to this fine space. But, it is a good and a fascinating job, and the money is necessary, ya know? I need to keep a roof over the room where I keep my computer, or writing my novel becomes a challenge indeed! I am working at Sony Computer Entertainment, writing ...
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