What is Writing Now?
What is writing now? Does it change with the times, morph into something new as the river of time beats against the rocks?
End of the Year (2022) Thoughts
Earlier this month I was reflecting on 2022 and how much of a loser I am. I mean, what have I accomplished?
(Almost) Two Years in Review: An Exercise
Two years is a long time to review, and these past two years really feel like 20. Still, I think it’s necessary for some of us to look back on where we were and what we’ve accomplished. If anything, it’s a record. While I know it’s not quite December, I still feel the need to…
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Preparing to Write Pike’s Wrong
This is an article about preparation, or to be more exact, the lack of said preparation. Standing at the edge of one my previous jobs, I could easily see the Front Range of the Rockies stabbing their defiant fists into the air. The most prominent fist is Pikes Peak, what the brochures call “America’s Mountain.” One…
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On Focus: “I saw a creature…bestial…”
Focus, man. Focus. I don’t do this often, and I don’t know if I’ll do it again. Feel free to mark this day as “weird.” “So, what’s new in the WORLD?”Asks a demon in my midst.“Funny thing you should ask,”I breathe out from behind my bars.“I was going to ask you the same.” That was…
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What is Literary Fiction Really?
When I was wee lad (well, thirty-something), I had this idea I would be the next great horror writer. I did all things horror: wrote short stories, worked on novels, edited a horror magazine, read works by other horror authors, attempted to buy my way into horror conventions, collected horror action figures (they’re not dolls!),…
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How To: Write a Book in Just Under 20 Years (or 7300 days)
A book takes times, does it not? On September 23, 2013, Difficult Mirrors was released for consumption (and hopefully joy). That the book took a while to write is not a secret I keep. Journeys are not always quick nor do they always take a straight route. It even had a different name for nearly…
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Llama, Llama, Go Llama
In 2002 (or so), a writer friend (the-great-and-not-quite-as-unknown-as-me Eric A. Jackson) and I were discussing what makes good fiction. At the time, he had recently loaned me a copy of Bentley Little’s The Collection, a great book of short stories. One of those stories included a dead llama. Naturally, the discussion on what made good…
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I Met God at Applebee’s
“Live simply, but do not simply live.” I wrote this down once (now twice), and I find myself thinking about those words more and more each day. The words are not mine, although who they originally belonged to is a mystery to me. The sentiment is nothing more than a Universal Truth, those things when…
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Out, out, brief candle…
Death is not a good topic, but one that’s been on my mind. It has been a long time since I wrote a blog post and a longer time since I thought I had something to say. I will eventually share why I’ve been distant (if you can be “distant” in a networking world), but…
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