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Aug.05.2009 - 11:41 am
Tremble
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Love would come into the room like a torch and sear. The bathroom light must remain on, that pale soft yellow pushing the door ajar, spilling across the floor where her bare foot...
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Apr.15.2009 - 2:01 pm
Truck, Boots, Adagio.
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I went to see the Dallas symphony yesterday with an earache. Skipped out on work to take my son to an educational music seminar. We hiked past the growling buses out front and...
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Apr.04.2009 - 6:47 pm
Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously
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I read 8 pages of this, by Christopher Higgs. Just when I would start to get into a flow the misarranged grammar kicked me out. I managed to keep plodding for eight pages before I...
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Mar.30.2009 - 8:24 pm
There's so much room
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My overriding impression thus far in working on the novel is that there's so much room. Each scene is cavernous. My second thought is why didn't I notice this on my first go-...
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Comments from Brad

Mar.14.2009 - 9:18 pm
In response to: The Colors of our Lives - Edit 1
Thanks
Thanks, Mary. It's a style that polarizes, I think. Some think it wildly overblown. I tend to believe that language...
Feb.16.2009 - 7:52 pm
In response to: My Literary Man-Crush on Cormac McCarthy
I've not read anything by
I've not read anything by Roddy Doyle other than a single New Yorker story recently and I didn't like it at all....
Feb.13.2009 - 9:31 am
In response to: Why do you write?
Hi Vickie! Fatal
Hi Vickie! Fatal Mountaineer, and Walking on Alligators I've not heard of those. I'll check them out. Your comment...
Jan.21.2009 - 7:17 am
In response to: Print vs. Online Publishing
Thanks for the comments! I
Thanks for the comments! I put up a poll on my blogspot blog (http://elevatetheordinary.blogspot.com) about this and...
Jan.21.2009 - 7:14 am
In response to: Print vs. Online Publishing
Thanks, Dennis!  I'm
Thanks, Dennis!  I'm interested to see how the e-publishing of your novels goes.