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As I am writing this, it is obscenely early. Well, not obscenely. It’s only an hour before I usually wake up but, an hour ago, three o’clock in the AM, it was obscenely early. However, I had slipped out of sleep and into a state of restless wakefulness and, in honor of the idea that…
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So, remember my buddy Erasmus and what he had to say about the desire to write growing with writing? Well, these stories in my head, they are like limes: Lately, especially today, after a freak storm with hail and lightning and possibly cows flung through the air at an alarming rate sent me home from…
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“The desire to write grows with writing.” — Desiderius Erasmus Have you ever had those days where you’re just dizzy with your writing and you rue the moment went you’re so tired you can’t keep your eyes open because you want to keep writing, but you know you can keep writing once you’ve slept and…
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I am exceptionally pleased to announce that the notebook conundrum has been solved! I was contemplating story ideas for the current fancy notebook in question, and I also regarded the fact that I had picked up a trio of very cute Hello Kitty gel pens the other day (when I was feeling fifteen, apparently). Each…
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Maybe it was finishing up The Best American Short Stories 2008 recently, but yesterday, while bogged down with incredibly dreary weather, a slow day at one job and a long meeting at the other, I noticed a lot of the little, bizarre, quirky, and just plain strange things around me that made for great inspiration…
L.S. Engler 