Category: Blerg
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Here’s the kinds of conversations I get into with Kaia, just don’t ask me how they get started. Out of the blue yesterday, or perhaps the day before, she said, “I really don’t like first-person.” I said, “Some of my favorite books are written in first-person, but I’ve always thought about it as a…
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Things I did NOT write for work
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I’m increasingly dissatisfied with my internet addiction, in no small part because of how it has changed. It’s probably never good to be addicted to anything, but this … it’s stealing my life from me in hours-long chunks. When I graduated college, the Internet had just begun exploding. Sites popped up for everything. If you…
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Sometimes, I think about all the stuff I’ve written that’s lost to the ether. Last week, I thought of a short story I’d written for the Tulsa Library Adult Fiction contest way back in 1999 called No Kisses for Darla. It was about a bartender with a cursed ankh necklace. I threw it together…
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Yesterday, on the Internet, I saw a video of a mom coming out of a 10-day COVID-19 self-isolation. Waiting for her was a toddler doing what can only be described as a happy dance, arms raised, feet and legs pumping up and down. When she saw her momma, she ran to her and threw down…
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The first draft is a hollow thing, thin of detail and light, full of desperation. You rip it from yourself without pause, only barely breathing. It’s fear that provides momentum. And you hate it. Look at what you’ve done, the amateur quality of the things, the offensively ordinariness of it all … the words. They…
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I think probably since I saw Deadpool 2 two weeks ago, that goddamn Air Supply song keeps popping up in my head, and mostly at the … … I’m so lost without you … … worst times. Brushing my teeth. Trying to write something at work. Riding my bicycle. Driving the … … I know…
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Saw this quote again last week: “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack-Up”, Esquire Magazine (February 1936). That’s one of those off-the-cuff quotes from a known thinker. Someone who…
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My 10-year-old kid cannot stand being bored, but has not yet really mastered the art of scratching the itch. We’re working on it. She’ll say, “I’m bored.” “Find something to do.” “There isn’t anything.” “Draw. Make something. Go run laps around the back yard.” “I don’t want to do any of those things.” “I can’t…
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