Sometimes you just write a line that you’re so proud of you want to go out and buy cigars and hand them out to every stranger you happen to meet. This is such a line: It’s from a story (Part Two of a story to be honest) posted on Tabulit (my last post explains what […]
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Hi Remember Me?
It’s been a while. Stuff has been happening just not here. So this came out today: This is from a short story (Part One of a short story) called Wild Horses (link) that has been posted on a new site called Tabulit, a literary venture that sells short stories and hands over the majority of […]
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David Bowie Will Never Die
David Bowie never stopped. He was an artist in the sense that he couldn’t shut it off, in that every single thing he did was bathed in multiple levels of meaning. He was David Jones. Who created David Bowie. Who created Ziggy Stardust and Major Tom and Alladin Sane and The Thin White Duke. He […]
Because There is Always More Stuff
I’ve decided to add some stuff to Medium. Like I’m not content to post stuff to ello, I’m going to post excerpts from the novel-to-be to Medium as well. I must be silly. No sillier than the unbelievably awful and low-point-in-recent-Canadian-history silly Canadian election campaign. But still silly. How silly? This silly: Of course, I’m […]
Just When You Think You’re Out, They Pull You Back In
You write a book. A while later it is published. A lot of other books are published at the same time. You do some publicity. You travel and read for strangers. You appear in some media. Strangers talk about your book in places you have never been. And then it stops. Your book is on […]
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Tagged al pacino, art, cave paintings, caveman, drawings, Editions Marchands de feuilles, French, gilgamesh, godfather, Lascaux, paperback, tacos, utnapishtim, Waiting for the Man
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Wheels Keep Turning
So. The first draft. It’s percolated. Enough. I’ve left it alone for a few weeks now. Almost a month. I have ideas. I really do. I have cuts to make. Lots of them. I have things to add. New things. Surprises. More things. Less things. Red things. Blue things. Starred things. Stuff. I’m surprised by, […]
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Tagged agent, agents, beer, dr seuss, editing, first draft, flat circle, journey, lynard skynard, nietzsche, rust cohl, schopenhauer, steve perry, the queen is dead, The Smiths, true detective
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Pity the Trees
Well, no. At least they’re renewable. I believe this paper is certified or something. It’s “good” and not old growth. I can only imagine what the “carbon footprint” of my laptop is. And my iPhone. And iPad. And TV. At least I don’t own a car. More photos of the physical nature of my first […]
Alpha and Omega
And then the end of the first part happens and you remember it’s the easy part and now the hard work begins. Because it is hard. Very much so. But a milestone is a milestone. It deserves to be acknowledged. If only because the work changes now, shifts gears, the work comes from a different […]
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Tagged first draft, Jones, little red riding hood, novel, pew pew, writing
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Because Social Media is Social!
We’re sharing stuff. Lots of stuff. My last book was partly about this (and that last book is out in paperback this summer – preorder now! And if you don’t like reading, you can get it as an audiobook too!). Not completely but more than one review talked about the “age of oversharing” or something […]
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Tagged bullies, devo, ello, Facebook, first draft, Jones, krakken, trolling, trolls, word count, writing
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This Is What I’m Up To
I believe I’m three quarters of the way through the first draft of my new novel. If I’m following the outline (which has become more like a well-thought out list of well-thought out suggestions rather than an actual set of, you know, instructions that I’m supposed to heed), then I’m three quarters of the way […]
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Tagged almonds, audiobook, bleeding, California, Cosmonaut Avenue, drought, editing, ello, Giller, Joshua Tree, Los Angeles, meerkat, microfiction, overpopulation, Palm Springs, Quebec Writers Federation, Skylight Books, tweet, Twitter, water, workshop, writing
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