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Apr.15.2013
The Booklover’s Bench contest ends the 18th. Don’t forget to enter.
Last Saturday, I had the pleasure of participating in the Author Showcase at a local library presentation, called “Mountain of Authors.” (The show...
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Feb.24.2013
In this "shirtless" photo from 1893, Mark Twain appears to have been fairly fit. Did his friend, Nicola Tesla, really invent the Bowflex?
(And I know what you're all thinking: there are no doubt scads of other writers who you Faithful Readers here would prefer to see me feature shirtless. Well,...
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Jan.04.2013
I'll admit to a bit of puzzlement here: when Mr. Tarantino and Mr. Foxx do "it," the end-product is artistic and bold; but for Mr. Twain's usage, the end-product requires sanitized re-writes and a perennial campaign to put "Huck Finn" on the banned-book list?
Clarification of the New Rules...
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Dec.04.2012
Some of my favorite moments of life is when people who do fuck up shit end up quoting quotes to cover for the fucked up shit they do.
Especially when it comes to the idea of Forgiveness.
We all have that friend who is so much in a constant state of saying "I'm sorry" for something it becomes...
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Nov.03.2012
When we drove home from Michigan, we decided to stay one night in Hannibal, MO. We wanted to experience Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemens) homeland & hoped to inherit a bit of his muse while we were there. We found his boyhood home after educating ourselves...
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Sep.02.2012
Are you sitting there this Labor Day weekend wishing you could be the next Mark Twain? The reincarnation of Kurt Vonnegut? Well, you need to know about satire:
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, ...
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Jun.18.2012
This being summer and all, I've decided to cut back from blogging seven times a day (or twice a week) to once a week. That way we can all have more time to eat chocolate, get a pony, write novels, or whatever one does when summer calls.
Most likely I will be blogging on Monday, unless I blog on...
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Jan.26.2012
image via awpwriter.org
The Writer's Chronicle magazine has become my "go-to" source for finding out how other writers think about the process and craft of writing. A few pithy quotes in that regard from the February 2012 issue:
"What does literature do for me? I think I solve...
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Jan.08.2012
His real life is led in his headand is known to none but himself.
All day long, and every day,the mill of his brain is grinding,and his thoughts (which are but themute articulation of his feelings)are his history.
His acts and his words are merely the visible thin crust of his world, with its...
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Sep.30.2011
My weekend in Hannibal, Missouri began with a walking tour of the most important Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain landmarks. The first stop was a tour of the jail SC/MT used for the fictional jail in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer where Muff Potter was held prisoner.
Mark Twain said, “Get your facts first...
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