Writing | Writing
Oct.15.2008
My family's pretty talented, if I do say so myself.
My parents were not very artistic. . . or even "into" the arts, so I'm not sure where our various passions came from, but they certainly do exist. I wanted to write from the time I was a kid, as did my younger brother Rob. Rob's a...
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Oct.15.2008
The universe, in its infinite wisdom, decided to throw me a bone yesterday. I was suffering from writer's block. I don't even like to admit that I'm suffering from it when I am. As if giving voice to the stone wall between me and my characters will somehow make it even harder to scale than it...
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Oct.14.2008
I am on vacation. It’s a working vacation, in that I brought the kids and their attendant need to eat and have their diapers changed and go places to play, and I brought my computer and the online course I am teaching and my blog and everything else that can now e-follow me wherever I go. But still...
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Oct.14.2008
I got to thinking today about all the titles I've used in the past...book titles, story titles, other projects as well, and realized I come in about fifty-fifty on the scale of titles that became projects versus projects that provided their own titles. I wrote an essay about this over at http://...
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Oct.14.2008
I love a good party, so let's have one!
Just Go's First-Ever Blogapalooza
Theme: What a Strange Trip It's Been
When: October 29
Where: Just Go! (http://aknickerson.blogspot.com)
Why: because there are goodie bags!
How: Post a comment in the Blogapalooza thread
http://aknickerson....
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Oct.14.2008
I kicked Elmo's ass today. An epic battle involving the Elmo Knows Your Name toy cell phone, the Fisher Price website, and a scavenge hunt for a mini-USB cable with which to program it. My daughter's first birthday. No longer is she months old. A great threshold has been crossed. That moment...
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Oct.14.2008
“There is some legitimate concern behind the question “how do you write that stuff,” if someone writes “that stuff” very well. People want to know how you can do it. How you can write from the point of view of a killer, or a very psychologically damaged character of one sort or another and bring...
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Oct.13.2008
In 1981 Luis Valdez wrote and produced `` Corridos'' at El Teatro Campesino in San Juan Bautista, a California mission town. Corridos are dramatizations, with music and dance, of Mexican folk ballads.
Valdez is most famous for ``Zoot Suit,'' and to a lesser degree, ``The Shrunken Head of Pancho...
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Oct.12.2008
IN the last two weeks, I have gone into my retirement plan and moved around funds--Some poor performers over to real estate, more into the one fund showing a profit. My first dime went into that fund in 1981, the first year of my Ph.D. program and through four universities, I felt assured that,...
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Oct.12.2008
Just wanted everyone to know that Strange, Weird, and Wonderful Magazine's Winter Submission period will officially open October 16th. Although we are a Horror, Fantasy, Sci Fi, and Paranormal publication, keep in mind that our Winter '09 issue will be geared more towards Fantasy writing, but we...
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