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Robert Clockedile aspiring fantasy and alternative history author

Robert Clockedile
Robert Clockedile
Gardiner, Maine
Member since: Jul, 2009
Last login: 09/25/2009
Last update : 08/22/2009
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  • Father, husband, learner, teacher, listener, speaker, reader, writer, avid breather; Web communications director by day; family man, consultant, and writer by night; ocassional sleeper on nights and weekends.

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  • On Legends, Backstory, and the Evolution of a Story

    August 22, 2009

    • I've been trying to get to writing this blog post for a couple of weeks now, but one thing or another has kept me from it. I decided this morning that I would write it this evening, come hell or high water. So, of course, today while I was doing some work in the attic of our 170-year-old house, I crushed the ring finger on my right hand when a pile of 20-foot-long, 18-inch-wide, oak planks (the ...
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  • Disappearing Childhood

    August 3, 2009

    • I recently took a rather traumatic drive through my hometown of Brunswick, Maine. I spent my entire childhood--age 4-18--in that town, but I haven't lived there in 23 years. My parents moved away a couple of months after I graduated high school and on that day, I took a mental snapshot of Brunswick and hoped it would never change.Last week, I drove by my old high school--which hasn't actually ...
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  • The Chosen Project

    July 27, 2009

    • As promised in my last entry, I have gone back over several different abandoned projects from my past to identify one to revive and turn into a complete manuscript by early October. And the winner is [drum roll please]...an alternative history/fantasy story that I started last year and abandoned as not much more than an outline and some character sketches. (Okay, pretty anti-climactic for anyone ...
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  • Arriving at Red Room

    July 24, 2009

    • I have been a sporadic, incosistent, erratic, wayward, distracted, and [add your synonym for unproductive here] writer for years. I have begun, and abandoned, many projects on many topics, in many genres. I have not seen one through to the point of completion, yet. I suspect that this is not an unfamiliar scenario for most of you. At one point, we were all unpublished, unrepresented, and ...
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  • The Shifting Paradigm

    This is a great article.

  • Quick Update

    I'll write a more detailed post about this in the next couple of days, but for now...In order to better establish, in my own mind, the legend and timeline of events that lead up to the "actual" story,

  • RE: Susan Brown

    That reminds me of another childhood place in Brunswick, and this one has been gone much longer.

  • This is exactly what I needed to hear

    All of these tips ring very true for me...in particular, "fake it 'til you make it." We all go through discouraging times, not only in our writing lives, but in all aspects of our lives.

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