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Flying Velvet Unicorn Meat

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Note: I know this is well overdue, but I’ve been ruminating about this article and the writer’s plight for some time since reading it. Basically, here’s why it’s okay for writers (and other artists) to think the world owes them a living when we provide services. Expecting otherwise is downright un-American. When you’re younger and […]

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Forgotten Things

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Thing 1 and Thing 2: Lackeys of the cat; sexless creatures, blue of hair, simian of visage; bringers of chaos, attention whores Thing 3: Mercifully deceased. Buried in desert by man who still refuses to say what he saw that night. Thing 4: Twice as large as the others, but lacking in confidence Thing 5: […]

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Another Resurrected Christmas Post

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Writer’s Note: Posted this in LiveJournal a long time ago. Wow, I forgot how gross it gets. Also: this is not really about my family. It’s about my secret family across the country. Joyous Winterbludgeon We did not celebrate Christmas when I was a boy. My parents hated it with every fiber of their being. […]

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To Do List 10/17/12

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

____ Cease being worthless and weak, poss. through pottery class. ____ Eventually, all will come to loathe me. Outline 12-step plan to expedite this. ____ Set date for a complete restructuring of personality. ____ Re-assess/-align/-ject all I have learned, believe in, and have become by Tuesday. ____ Instigate plan to become smarter, focused, less inane, […]

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The Creative Process

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Mike, Nate, Flynn, and I are on our way to the beach house we rented in Michigan. It’s located some ways off the main road, requiring a series of twisty turns through the greenery. Mike asks me to review the directions on the Post It notes she scribbled out the other night while speaking to the […]

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Novel

Monday, May 21, 2012

I only need to write my epilogue, and then I’m done with the first draft of my book

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The Novel

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

I’m finishing the final chapter of my book (though I still have to write the epilogue… that’s okay, wrap-ups are fun to write). Mostly, I’m stunned at what a litany of violence it’s becoming. As if all the evil ignored by the protagonists was busting through the dam, drowning them in beatings, brutality, and blood. […]

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Lately

Thursday, May 3, 2012

* The challenge of writing my novel’s first draft (which comes between the rough draft and the final draft) is that while it needn’t be perfect, I’d like it to make sense. Surely, there are continuity errors. I think I’ve jumbled a few characters here and there (one guy has had three different names). And […]

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In Purgatory, the Indolent Sit on Their Asses at the Foot of a Mountain for the Length of Their Lives

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

I finished and published a 4,000 word essay last week. and yet I already feel like a lazy slug because I haven’t done it again this week. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?

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It’s Not Stealing if You Translate It Weirdly

Thursday, April 26, 2012

A Google search revealed an array of spam sites (I think that’s the term) that grabbed and posted my Gapers Block Portage Theater article to their grubby little domains. I’m annoyed, but short of tracking down each and every instance and e-mailing a nasty letter to the spambot in charge, I’m not sure what I […]

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