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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Another dog story

I heard about all this recently, in a phone call. My elder-brain being not exactly a sponge, is a little vague on some of the specifics. But the important ones are intact. A friend of mine had a couple of dogs, middle-aged at least. Bandit was a chunky little lady, a smallish breed who was rather... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Alcoholism is the theme...

This is a reprise of a poem I posted some time ago, somewhere or other... but it is easier to pull it from other archives than to go find that page again. I bring it out again because of a post in another blog: http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/tamijo/ Bitter Grapes Wine was once upon a time... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, March 3, 2012

How many different ways can you say the same thing?

Morning came. The sun rose over the horizon. Dawn glowed against the dark sky. Night fled before the first bright shreds of morning, high in the sky. An ad-copy writer years ago, who happened to be my boss in another line of work entirely, told me this one thing that became one of my first rules of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, February 18, 2012

A new writing project

IN THE BEGINNING Glimmering in the brilliant light of a young sun, each charming, each a delightful nexus of potential... “So perfect! So round, so untouched—How shall we choose...?” Thus spake Anabla, the one who favored unlikely winged things and sweet lights and colors. Porlith snorted in the way... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 14, 2011

Creating Character

I just read a blog by thomaspunch, a relatively new blogger and student of writing. He speaks of some of the challenges of story-telling, and in particular, about character-creation. Personally, I love creating new characters. I do it frequently for the online game I play, and used to create a new... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, October 28, 2011

major renovations of this blog!

This blog was once home to my novel project, The Heretics. I have removed most of it now, though there are a few samples remaining. If you care to read them, a search for Heretics will find them. I was going to delete the whole blog, but there are all these fun prompts... They go back a ways, but... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Jimmy A and Quimby

Reading JimmyA's post this morning, http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/James_Observations/ I am reminded of a bizarre moment in my travels, and a note that caught my eye. It's all in his post and in my comment to him. This is the result of a read-out with JimmyA: I invite writers to submit a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 4, 2011

Publisher looking for submissions readers

Do you love to read? Do you read a lot and with alacrity? Are you ever disappointed in what you read, and do you know why? Would you like to have input on the quality of books on the market? The Zharmae Publishing Press is recruiting Submissions Readers. Interested? email me here through Blogit and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 15, 2011

Well then... Who likes to read?

Yes? Okay... What do you read the most? Do you read enough of a particular genre to be able to distinguish what is original from what is trite and cliche? Do you notice the quality of what you read? Do you pick up on flaws in grammar, punctuation, syntax, plausibility? Do you know human nature well... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

The THRESHOLD Project

We saved what we could. We could not save them from the catastrophe they were blithely running at, arms wide, mad with the heat of their day in the sun... In the end, we could only look out for ourselves. In the gathering twilight, in the plunging cold, on the shrinking land, we all did what we... Sign in to see full entry.

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The Kitchen is always a place of warmth--sometimes too warm--and gratifications, of indulgences, clever solutions, and occasional disasters. It is a place of recipes and experimentation. This blog is going to be hanging out in the kitchen for a while.

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