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Archive for November 20th, 2008

Something new

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday, I tried something new – songwriting.
I am musically impaired. If being able to sing along to the radio was one of the qualifications for getting a driver’s license, I wouldn’t be allowed within fifty feet of motor vehicle even as a passenger.
But M. was having trouble with a song and asked me to fill [...]

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One-horned wonder

Posted in Where stories come from, tagged , , on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Here I am, trying to decide which novel (and I’m not letting on what my choices are) and I wake up in the middle of the night with a sentence in my head. I think, okay, that’s a sentence, and I try to let it go. But the sentence knows where it’s going. 
I get through [...]

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Fast Forward

Posted in Griping, Where stories come from, tagged , , on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Wow. Busy week. 
And a train wreck in my head. When I sat down to look at the bloated (16,000 words and not finished) 2-year old story that I promised myself would be my next housekeeping project, I realized:
a) It was way worse than I remembered
b) I didn’t want to do that much work on something [...]

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