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Feb.24.2009
Put ten novelists in a room, add some wine and munchies and introduce the subject of Attention Deficit Disorder. You've got a party. You've also, quite possibly, got ten people who swear they have ADD themselves. And maybe they do.
But my point is not to diagnose. Or even to point out that...
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Feb.19.2009
Mark Twain said
" We are all ignorant only about different things...."
I've always loved the stripped psychological simplicity of this inversion of knowledgeable worth; though this doesn't disguise my rather passionate disposition with things which may seem blatantly nonsensical and...
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Feb.13.2009
This morning a friend sent me this letter he received tha contains what I consider very good new both in the merits and in the method:
February 12, 2009
Dear Mario,
We're thrilled to announce that in the final economic stimulus bill that was just released by a Congressional committee, funding for...
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Dec.20.2008
You could be writing, right now. I remember spending a strange evening in a hotel room with a somewhat famous poet. She read me Gertrude Stein and made me want to write. I guess people don’t usually take you up to their hotel rooms because they want to make you want to write. She wasn’t inspired to...
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Dec.16.2008
I once taught at a jock/ drinking school in upstate New York. The town was depressed. While once the Finger Lakes had provided commerce, now only the college did so, and as a result, there were about twelve different bars but no place to buy shoes, for example. Anyway, I taught creative writing...
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Dec.13.2008
Two friends have complained about writer’s block within the space of one week. They wanted to know how I get around this problem.
Well, the truth is that writer’s block is not something I have a problem with, so it could be fairly argued that I’m not the best person to seek advice from. On the...
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Dec.01.2008
Possible things that the phrase "City of Skulls" could mean:
-An essentially normal city--somewhere in middle europe/eastern europe. Each family has, in their home, in a box in the living room, a skull. The skulls are the skulls of the 8,000 defenders of the town, left over from a...
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Nov.21.2008
There's a kind of romanticized story about the brilliant author having a flash of genius in a restaurant and hastily scribbling the idea on a cocktail napkin. (I'm sure it's not all that romanticized, actually, since the brilliant authors also tend to be the ones who forget their notebooks.) But...
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Oct.29.2008
With November comes a phenomenon known throughout the writing kingdom as “Nanowrimo,” or, more formally, “National Novel Writing Month.” As a regular participant in this event, I wanted to mention it at least once here at Storytellers, and to lend it my own perspective, for what that’s worth.
The...
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Oct.21.2008
As a very beginning of my being here I wish to thank our hosts first for my brand new red room. I hope to soon feel home there. Then in turn, I would like to say all of you are the same welcomed to my Wonderland.
You could know basic things about me checking at the biography section. More you...
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