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Friday, July 28, 2017

THE EDIT

I may have mentioned this guy brought me his letter to the editor for a touch-up, that I waved my magic wand over it and was waiting to return the “final” version to him on Thurs. In fact, the writing gang and I hung around for fifteen minutes waiting for him to arrive in The Center’s transport van.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 27, 2017

When the Girls Went To Lunch (Abdel, too)

After the Write Your Own Story session - last meeting until Sept. - the group went to lunch at Wendy's. Conversation wandered from current events to coming attractions, including whether or not we should form a fiction writing group this fall, and write stuff other than biographical topics "for... Sign in to see full entry.

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NOW WHAT?

Did I mention that Abdel – the guy in our group – has arranged for his book club to read and discuss “Bloody Hell and a Slice of Pie?” Aug. 20, he said. 7:00 p.m. He wants me to be there. Today is the last meeting of the Write Your Own Story group until September. Last week, when I skipped out... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Editing Mode

TUESDAY AT THE CENTER It may be the heat, this week of 100 degrees and up, of being restricted to quarters as the saying goes. But I’d got used to my own company, to immediate access to the coffee and snacks, grapes and melon squares in the fridge, no phone to answer, no cluster of biddies swapping... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 25, 2017

WORD

Science fiction writing, when I was in college, was the illegitimate stepchild of “real” literature. Like comic books and dime westerns, it was discounted as beneath the standards of scholastic orthodoxy. But I suspect every high-toned author of ivory tower fiction would have given their eyeteeth to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 24, 2017

Rough Draft - conclusion?

CH 3 At anthill near the aforementioned lab in outer Vermont or North Carolina – which will be determined soon – the denizens of the inner colony – we shall call it Central – are disturbed by what their cohorts find in the inner sanctum Calvin Theobald calls the White House. The queen, having... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 23, 2017

More fun - CH 2

CH 2 Meanwhile, back in the lab at a nondescript college in an underfunded section of outer Vermont or maybe South Carolina, an unrecognized and discounted researcher had been looking into the ways ants communicate, and created an electronic sonic communicator powered by a couple of Eveready... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 22, 2017

Rough Draft - Ch. 1...

Bugged When the Secret Service day shift reported for work at the White House on Sunday morning, they found their codes no longer worked to open doors. The guards at the front entrance had reported no situations during the night, there were no alarms. All systems were normal, although there was a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 21, 2017

MEETING BETTY DAVIS

Sometime in the late ‘80s I went on a weekend visit with my daughter, a student at SIU Carbondale. Saturday night she invited me to go to a bar with her. I don’t remember the name of the place, but it was a gay bar, Carbondale’s finest. The music was some kind of robo-disco, there was a mirror ball... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 20, 2017

Weather, whether or not

Steamy this a.m., 82 degrees with a heat index of 90 due to the huma-ditty. Supposed to go up to 104 actual and 112 Heat Index this afternoon. Staying in... will finish this later.... I'm back. Son dropped by to take me to breakfast & check out how I responded to a phone call I got from the drug... Sign in to see full entry.

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