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The Proper Preparation of Haint Meat: A Pamphlet for the Edification of the Public

Friday, March 2, 2012

In times of economic distress and great privation, it seems fitting to peruse the afterworld for alternative comestibles. As the price of animalistic meat, by example, becomes more dear, one must seek quasi-organic venues for the basic proteins. But whereas the restrictions of species, edibleness, poisonous issue, extinction, fictionality, taboo, ethos, vainglory, and mobility forbid […]

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Another One Bites the Dust (Hey, Hey!)

Friday, March 2, 2012

Chapter 20 is done. Two left. I WILL finish this damn book(’s first draft) by Saturday.

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PATHETIC

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Trying to finish my novel just so I can get back on Facebook is a fairly sad display of addiction. I predict I’ll finish by Saturday. I finally feel like I’m in a groove brimming with self-confidence, inspiration, and delusions of grandeur. How can I go wrong?

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We Are Awake

Sunday, February 19, 2012

We are awake because daughter needed a 11 p.m. feeding and son needed 12:30 a.m. reassuring because his stuffy nose is making it hard to sleep. Also, he required a medicinal snack of club crackers. I hope the crackers do the trick, because this house has been under a fucking plague for what seems like […]

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All Aboot Canadian English, Eh?

Monday, February 6, 2012

A friend at work just passed this along to me. She worked as a designer in Toronto for a few years, and ended up toting it back to the states, where it remained wrapped in plastic until she thought, “I know! I’ll give it to the word nerd at work!” (She didn’t really say that.) […]

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Damn

Monday, February 6, 2012

It’s amazing how chickenshit I’ve become about writing. I am gripped with a feeling of bland doom.

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Plot

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Okay, that’s a few thousand more words written and a more solid, if perplexing, plot uh, plotted. You’ll see.

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O, Muse, Sing Within Me!

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Morning pages are a great idea, and I try to fill at least a page in my notebook every day (usually with digressions on art, rants, and segments of nonexistent novels). At the same time, as I write them, I imagine a suburban housewife in a flowery maxi-dress, sipping chamomile tea on the back porch, […]

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Crab’s Cradle

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

“But there was more to it than just coping with such traumatic situations. In later life, despite being hailed by so many as an American genius, Vonnegut felt that the literary establishment never took him seriously. They interpreted his simplistic style, love of science fiction and Midwestern values as being beneath serious study.” Never minding […]

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Captain Prolix

Monday, November 21, 2011

Mike: So, are you going to finish that novel? Me: Yes, eventually. Mike: Well, how much is left? Where are you at? Me: Chapter 20 of Section 2. Mike: (Gapes) Really? Me: Wait a second. (I leave and return with the print-out of Section 1) Here it is. Mike: That’s it? Me: No, that’s just […]

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