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Dec.11.2012
I get a little bit sentimental this time of the year.
Normally, I have the reputation for being a cynical, vicious brute with an over-developed sense of the ridiculous and surreal.
But when Christmas comes around, some of my rougher edges are buffed off and casting an eye back over the year, I find...
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Dec.05.2012
image via The Atlantic
Years ago, when my learning curve at guitar was a lot steeper, an old pal, Alan Joyner, and I played around with 5/4 time. As a musical metric, it was a mind-blower for both of us.
Of course, Brubeck's famed Take Five brought that meter into prominence, not because...
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Nov.29.2012
I’ve been blogging about Oshun, the AfroCaribbean Goddess of Fertility and Abundance, an archetype writers can use to boost energy, productivity, enthusiasm, and the sheer pleasure of the writing process. This week has been all about creativity and joy, so I thought the perfect Tips for Writers...
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Nov.29.2012
I have some good news and some bad news. It’s about creativity. Well, mine anyway. After many years of alternately experiencing both droughts and monsoons of creative vision, I have miraculously discovered from where to harvest my most creative self. I liken it to mining for gold−since the...
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Nov.19.2012
When Michael and I were younger we decided to go on the road.
By on the road, I mean we put our stuff in storage, bought a motor home, packed up a then two year old Katlyn and went on the road.
How did we make a living?
No, we were not in a rock band. We decided, before we bought the...
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Oct.31.2012
Recently Copyblogger featured an article guaranteed to catch my eye: 8 Strange Rituals of Very Productive Writers. Seventy novels later I guess I think of myself as productive and possibly quite strange. So, of course, I had to find out what odd and amazing things my fellow...
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Oct.24.2012
Any type of creative expression, whether the end result is “good” or “bad” is healthy for our whole being.
I am reminded of an older woman that I met years ago. Our paths crossed for one brief summer and then our paths separated and we went our own ways. She was a great woman and had quite a mind—...
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Oct.23.2012
I've been grazing through a list of indie publishers this morning, seeing what they're about, what they want in the way of manuscripts. All, it seems, are looking for the odd manuscript - the one you wrote just for the hell of it, saying, "I don't give a damn whether it's marketable or not - I'm...
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Oct.18.2012
RUPERT GILES: It’s the end of the world. SCOOBY GANG (in unison): Again??!!
Pat and I dearly loved the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. For one thing, we could relate to the show’s perpetual threat of apocalypse. Just about every other week, poor Buffy had to wrangle the demon hordes of...
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Oct.18.2012
The Economy. Money. Jobs. Your Future, and the future of our youth. It’s filling the minds of everyone these days especially during this super-heated political election. People are more concerned than ever about what their future holds, and rightly so. Millions are looking for work, or have...
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