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Aug.05.2009
Nothing more than the vague waters spilling underneath my thoughts:
Twitter was just another example of high-tide banality. People on Twitter misusing their 140 characters limit to say nothing inspiring and to say everything worthless -
The so-called 'Revolution' to overturn Obama's...
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Jul.23.2009
There are days when I cannot see the desktop.
And there are days when I cannot find the right book, or books.
And there are days when everything just works out without searching, flipping pages, living in a paperless society.
Um, well that last idea is still a fantasy, but hey, I like tactile....
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Jul.15.2009
Completion.
This is one of my horror-words, a word that sits up in the corner, folds its arms beneath its long stern face,and taps its legs impatiently on the floor to the tune of some song that I, no matter how hard I try, am never going to learn. Then, suddenly,when it is tired of tapping, it...
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Jul.07.2009
Now here's a delectable word, one of those words that are crisscrossed and bundled up with meaning: spell.
Hmm. Wonder what would happen if I opened the door and invited all of those meanings to come and sit inside my story? Perhaps something like this:
My Auntie Elaine, having suffered a...
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Jul.05.2009
I need to add a new blog to my life like I need a new pigeon tapdancing on my roof.
But I have become so enamored with the Red Room, and the idea of all these wordpeople in one place, that I figure I should at least open my mouth and spew forth a few random words every now and then.
So I'm going to...
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Jun.30.2009
Another year, another fabulous and sometimes agonizing writers conference.
I've been on the faculty at the Jackson Hole Writers Conference, a smallish, intimate conference with a kind, casual, down-to-earth vibe, for almost fifteen years. The year after my first book came out I was asked as the...
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May.17.2009
When I started tweeting there were almost no celebrities. But there were people like myself, people who not only want to express themselves, but need to do it. People that had found a way to communicate with the whole world at once.
In Sweden the celebrity hype on Twitter came and went. The celebs...
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May.14.2009
An important step in creating or editing any story is continuity. It can range from simple things, like making sure a character's eye color stays the same throughout the story, to more complex things ("If I blow up this building now, my characters couldn't get picked up from the roof by...
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May.06.2009
I’ve written a number of horror stories over the years, a mainstream novel, and a horror suspense novel where many a number of my characters have never made it to the final page. Many of these characters died a most colorful and gruesome death. Some of those persons’ sole purpose in the story was...
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May.06.2009
First, I want to thank Red Room for the support. I don't know if you totally realize how much you've done for me-- for my ego and for my book. I can never thank you enough.
I'd had the idea for Serendipity in my head for about four years before I actually wrote it. Sometimes I think you have...
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