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As long as it needs to be
Get your minds out of the gutter; I’m talking about stories. I’ve got one that took hold of me a couple of years ago, a historical fiction about the disastrous Narvaez expedition, and it ended up about 8000 words long. … Continue reading
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The Toronto Hunger Games Champion
…is running for the US Senate. Help him get there.
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Good Lines
“The colonel was a disputatious individual, stubborn, easily driven to wrath, and possessed of many positive opinions, most of which were founded upon a bedrock of nearly invincible ignorance.” Robert Sheckley, from his short story, A Suppliant in Space.
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The Adventures of Gracie the Wander Cat: Gettin’ comfortable
You know, before I guilted that D. Krauss guy into letting me stay with him, I was pretty much at home in the elements. Spent last winter under the deck out back and in a little hole I made for … Continue reading
Last August
Birds feeding, with the occasional assistance of a bat. Right over the top of my house. Birds and Bat3
Joffrey Charlemagne for US Senate
Okay, for those who haven’t watched Jason Smith’s web series, Losing Cable and Losing Cable 2, I gotta ask, why not? Go do that right now. For those of you who have, and are wondering what mad genius lies behind this brilliant, … Continue reading
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Good lines
From Rennie Airth’s River of Darkness: “Increasingly solitary, he saw his life as all that was left to him: a tattered sail that might bear the wind but would bring him to no haven.”
Should I call Father Karras or Father Moore?
Continuing the trend of a writer boring the crap out of you by writing about writing, I’ve experienced a rather rare event this week— a dream. Now, yes, like everyone else I dream all the time, quite vividly and in … Continue reading
They Just Show Up
Yeah, I know, writing about writing is probably one of the most boring things a writer can do, but I ran headlong into an odd little phenomenon this morning and wondered what others thought of it: the unplanned character. This … Continue reading
Xmas got an upgrade
Just sittin’at home on Christmas Eve plying myself with mutant antihistamines, zinc, and whiskey in a futile effort to stave off a Satanic cold, when, about noon, it started snowing: Nice. Although, Gracie didn’t think much of it: Merry Christmas!