I’m cutting, expanding, editing and re-working three stories right now. All are being prepped for specific markets and have already been through a thousand and one edits, or so it feels.
And let me just say, keeping track of the versions can be a royal pain.
It should be simple. Version 1, 2, 3, etc. ad inifinity.
But […]
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Three Weeks, and Gas K.O.
Published by May 12th, 2008 in Home in the Rookery and Rumblings. 0 CommentsI feel rather like a puffer fish who’s taken in all the water/air he can absorb but must still absorb a bit more. I have three weeks of classwork left, during which time I’ll also take four of my last finals. Then it’ll be a bit of mopping up, so to speak, and one last […]
New Meaning to Red Eye
Published by April 2nd, 2008 in Home in the Rookery and Rumblings. 0 CommentsNote to self: Red means danger. Red means stop. Red means don’t-put-it-in-your-eye.
I have the kind of contacts which soak overnight in a peroxide solution. They get nicely cleaned, and by morning the peroxide’s neutralized. Then, I keep a saline solution at hand, and squirt a bit of that in the contacts before putting them in […]
While watching myself and friends go through the hectic time of bringing home a newborn, I was always struck by the irony that just when a woman is most exhausted from childbirth and often at a low point physically, she must have her sleep disrupted several times a night by a baby.
You’re wondering what this […]
While of course I’m grateful for many things this Thanksgiving, what comes to mind when listening to friends’ travel plans? That I’m staying home.
My flying horror stories aren’t that horrendous. Rude, inconsiderate attendants who treat people as something less than sub-citizen, officious security officers denying my preschooler the water their documents stated she was allowed, time spent standing in lines for beyond […]
Guess how much this Louis Vuitton purse is selling for.
Guess higher.
And the really crazy thing? At just over $52,000, it’s by no means the most expensive purse out there, and has an embarrassing lack of diamonds.
This is proof positive that insanity roams freely, and is smiling out from under those sunglasses.
I’ve been reading an analysis written by Belyn Rodgers of Edward Murrow’s Orchestrated Hell. The radio piece in question was an influential report delivered in 1943 by reporter and journalist Edward R. Murrow. As a piece of influential rhetoric and effective storytelling the report is interesting to listen to in its own right, but it is […]
Jordan recently had a reader start spouting at him and generally hefting the law in his face, so he posted a link to a Legal Guide for Bloggers. I thought I’d post it here but skip the drama, at least for today.
What I find interesting is how often, when faced with someone willing to go public […]
The first of the fallout from the Va Tech shooting has hit the field of writing. A high school student in Cary, Ill. was arrested for a creative writing essay that his teacher found ‘disturbing’. The essay has not been released, so far as I know, but some of the content has been reported in […]
I’m Scared of Cops, Are You?
Published by April 14th, 2007 in The Human Condition and Rumblings. 0 CommentsI’ve lifted this message from the body of an email sent by a friend of mine. When I read of her ‘cop fear’, I had to confess that I have it too. Just this week I was followed a short way by a Sherrif, and was so busy checking my speed and watching him in the […]
