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Category Archives: Writing
Beginnings, Again
I’ve written what might be the beginning of the Western. If not the beginning, a starting point (and it’s true, you do have to start somewhere). I have a long way to go with the research, and I’d rather be … Continue reading
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Another Take On Fiction For The Brain
Over at Book View Cafe, Nancy Jane Moore has an interesting post on Annie Murphy Paul’s article and other related research by Keith Oatley and Raymond Mar. As a book designer, I would be curious to see a study that … Continue reading
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Reading Fiction Is Good For The Brain (and what’s good for the brain is good for the rest of your body)
It turns out that reading fiction is actually good for you. Not that I didn’t already believe that, but I’ve met plenty of people who don’t read fiction, because they say they only want to read real things. This piece … Continue reading
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Beginnings
Today I wrote some of the beginning of part two of the novel I’ve been working on (called New Springdale Novel or maybe Recollections of a Malleable Future). Part one is first person, part two is third person. Same character, … Continue reading
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Western Novella
That’s what the contract says. I sold a surreal western novella to PS Publishing. Now all I have to do is write it. (Note: this is not how I normally do things; I usually crawl along, stapling words together, getting … Continue reading
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The Big Boys
I recently watched a documentary called American Hardcore: The History of American Punk Rock 1980-1986, directed by Paul Rachman and written by Steven Blush. It’s based on Blush’s book American Hardcore: A Tribal History. The film details some of the … Continue reading
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More Notes On Writing, Again
Good article by C.A. Belmond in the Huffington Post last Wednesday: “Writers Wednesday: 5 Lies They Tell You About Writing.” I particularly liked number 2: “Many writing instructors routinely discourage new authors from describing their characters and the world they … Continue reading
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Story Posted
Over on the right, under the page for Psychological Methods To Sell Should Be Destroyed, I’ve put up a short story from the collection. It’s “Tales of the Golden Legend,” which I posted about here. It was first published in … Continue reading
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