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Stop and smell the platitudes…
photo by Marcus Vegas via flickr I pick up trash. I go to one of several local parks almost every weekend with my husband and youngest son and pick up after others who don’t give a shit. True, some of … Continue reading
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More thoughts on back-talking characters…
I’ve still got the “my characters are cardboard” accusation in my head. Hey, you! Up there at the keyboard. This is NOT working for me. Photo by Denis Defreyne via flickr Let me recap for those of you late to the … Continue reading
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I saw the sign, and that’s about it…
My own personal picture of Two Egg. Do you remember the days when you’d take a long trip in the car and you’d have a huge paperback atlas of maps, big as a newspaper, but thick as a … Continue reading
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The Easter Sunday blood and gore Peeps diorama competition…
The results are in! The first ever Easter Sunday Peeps diorama competition was a raucous test of skill, creative use of trash, and how well we all know our family. Yes, that last one played a very significant role in the … Continue reading
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Is the written word devolving?
You know how the whale ancestor started out in the ocean, evolved into a land animal, and then took to the seas once again, becoming the whale? No? Well, look it up. If I can’t write, no one can. Photo by … Continue reading
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It’s enough to make me start sewing again…
I went clothes shopping this weekend. That’s never a good thing; but it has to be done once in a while. After an appalling session at Kohl’s, I was reminded of Oprah Winfrey. All of these make me look fat. … Continue reading
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Author or creative director?
Where did we get, and why do we perpetuate, this idea that writers are incapable of creating coherent, well-written, clean work without the help of editors to tell us what’s wrong with what we’ve produced? Abby: writer, director, star… Photo … Continue reading
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Fame, greatness, and immortality? Nah…
Well, the other day it was Jack Engelhard telling me that my characters are almost definitely cardboard because they don’t talk to me. Now some literary critic tells me I’m not even a writer! Alexander Nazaryan apparently let Keith Gessen … Continue reading
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Why aren’t my characters talking back to me?
The other day I read an article in The Washington Times by Jack Engelhard* called, “Dear Writers: Suppose your novel sucks?” They’re supposed to do what? Photo by Kaibara87 via flickr Engelhard* talks about having to shelve a novel that … Continue reading
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Pity the poor cockroach…SWAT!
Today, just now there in the kitchen, I experienced for the first time in my entire life…pity for a roach. Photo by Furryscaly via Flickr There she was, hobbling toward me, pale, exhausted, her legs splayed, her antennas wild and … Continue reading
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