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I’ve been thinking about the novel I’ve actually finished a lot lately, which is good, considering it should have been edited, you know, yesterday. Since yesterday was Valentine’s Day, and I always feel like doing something with shipping on Valentine’s Day, I was thinking this morning about shipping in the novel, and, more specifically, how…
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Happy Valentine’s Day, readers! I’m not usually a big proponent of this particular holiday, and I’m actually spending most of it working at both my jobs, so my romance today is with commerce and capitalism. I am going to give myself a goal of writing at least one little romantic vignette between my characters as…
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Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of slow (extremely slow) editing of a short story for potential submission to Palooka or potentially others, and I have cut out approximately a page of prose already. It brings to mind the old writing adage to kill your darlings. I’ve definitely slayed many in this piece, and I…
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I’ve been trying to get back into the swing of sending in pieces to literary journals for publication again. After a stream of rejections and a general lack of new material to send, it can be a challenge to just get up the motivation to try to change one of the previously rejected stories and…
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“Humor-man’s greatest gift! That’s what separates humans from other animals. That’s why it’s called humor. Humans-humor. You never hear dogs telling jokes, do you?” “Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes” by Louis Sachar This was among the many books read to me in grade school that I almost instantly bought at the next Scholastic Book Fair and…
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First off, I’d like to backtrack a little bit about “Big Trouble.” The movie version, not the book. I still feel the same about the book, but then I remembered that I have seen the film version, because it’s Zooey Deschanel and Ben Foster playing the teenage characters, Jenny and Matt, both actors I adore…
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Ooof, that hurt! Falling off the wagon is way too easy; last week was just all out of sorts all over the place, but it was one of those weeks that really inspired me to get a grip on things, wrestle them down, and hold them there to get things back on track. That definitely…
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It’s a new month, and that means it’s time to start a new page-a-day novel for February! I never quite got to the goal for January’s, so I’ll be still hacking away at that to get to 31 pages, but that one was turning out to be quite a crapshoot, anyway. More on that in…
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