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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Sorry to have no chapters... but here's a photo prompt...

I've got all the book on my laptop currently, and we had to disable the wireless because it was messin' with internet connectivity... This will be resolved soon! In the meantime... From the trove of my daughter, Marika's trove of photos, this one from Cat Tails, Spokane: (see more of these shots in... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, September 29, 2008

BWC - post 82 - THE HERETICS - Interlude: Two New Voices

INTERLUDE Padrone Names… I have had many, and have forgotten them all… Like the sycophantic minions, the partisans, the coteries, names come and go and are finally of no importance. Like lifetimes. I have lived many, before this… before so long ago adopting this life-without-death that at least... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

New photo prompt: Wall of Trees

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Monday, September 15, 2008

A New Literary Prompt

The other day I did not resist the impulse to acquire an old book (1922) just because of the title. (It was only $2 to indulge the whimsy.) I wonder what you will make of it: THE ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY OF BANKING Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

new photo prompt

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Prompts

Have you responded to some of the prompts in this blog? Straightforward has suggested that for my up-coming photo show (detailed in The Ciel Show) I show some of the prompt photos, with some of the best resulting work from those who have responded. I like the idea, and might just do it. I'd love to... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

since Straightforward asked-- a New Prompt!

There was this sign, where I-90 crosses from Montana into Idaho. It has since been filled in with somethings nowhere near as memorable as this simple nothing. What did it mean, this empty sign at Exit 0? What if you got off at Exit 0? Where would the ramp lead? *** (The very first post of this... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Can you guess who they will be?

(Nothing whatever to do with the coming elections!) To all who are reading THE HERETICS--those who comment by email or here, or who read and don't comment ( )--I am home again, and will soon take up the story once more. We have nearly arrived at the Interlude in which two new voices will take up... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

(BWC) post 65 THE HERETICS Nosy Columbina!

ch 14 Father Domenico (cont) I stopped at the threshold. There, seated on my own hard bed, was Columbina. The telltale candle was by her on the pallet, as both her hands were occupied with my letter. The Letter. The one addressed to the Pope. The one with the broken seal. She looked up as if totally... Sign in to see full entry.

"Write what you know": historical fiction

I love a good solid historical novel! I love to be transported to other times, other worlds, to get emotionally engaged, and at the same time be learning something for real about how we have come to be where we are now, in the world we're in. But a writer can't just slap some costumes onto stock... Sign in to see full entry.

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