Tuesday, September 6, 2011
1. I’m starting this week with a story set in our living room sometime last week. It was getting late at the end of a very long, very busy day, and Trish and I were on the two couches in our living room, working on our computers, while Annabelle entertained herself. She wasn’t quite ready [...]
Thursday, September 1, 2011
I started the week with fond remembrances of cliff-diving without the water. And I started that post with a link back to other stories from my childhood, exploring the far forested acres of my parents’ farm. I blamed the recent nostalgia on my childhood buddy Josh, for mentioning some of those stories on Facebook, but [...]
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Today’s rant is brought to you by my most recent realization: namely, that I don’t want to be a business. I am a writer. Hear me ROAR.
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Also tagged Amanda Hocking, Business Plan, Creative Writing, Herman Melville, Indie publishing, Kindle Publishing, Moby Dick, NY Times, Peter Frampton, Platform and Promotion, The Consortium, WILAWriTWe
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Yesterday I didn’t show up to work until after lunch. I was really dragging, too. I wandered down the row between offices and cubicles, waving a half-hearted response to my coworkers’ enthusiastic greetings. I made my way to my desk, fell into my chair, and then started reading office email. It wasn’t terribly interesting. I’ve [...]
I’ve spent the last few days getting scared out of my wits by a wholly unexpected source: Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None.
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Also tagged Adverbs, Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, Character Development, Fear, Inspirations, Murder Mystery, Muse, Narrative and Exposition, Plot, Point of View, Raymond E. Feist, Realism, Suspense, Ten Little Indians
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