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Okay, Maybe I Have to Re-Write (and how my habit of trolling may get me published)
Today is the day that I stare into the narcolepsy-inducing abyss of needing to re-write my book. The main reason is simply because the next phase will me more laborious than the actual creative process– and this has to do … Continue reading
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Tagged Blogging, Mark Twain, novel writing, publishing, Self publishing, writer's block, writing
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Re-writing Is for Suckers
Actually having finished a rough draft of an entire book is a shock to the system for me. I talked all kinds of smack about it five years ago. I had all kinds of MS-13-level bravado about it. I had … Continue reading
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Tagged novel writing, publishing, Self publishing, writing
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. . . and my book is finished.
37 days from the start of this ridiculous, Iditarod-level lunacy. 47, 000 words, with at least another five waiting in elaborative revisionary addenda to concepts and scenes I refused to bog down in the initial process. Rewrite is next. Probably … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Novel writing, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged books, novel writing, publicity, publishing, Self publishing, writing, young adult fiction
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Jim Carrey, and the The Clutch That Is Killing Us
In the process of writing a book that draws from my own childhood experiences, I’ve been forced to try to relive the technical and informational limitations that define well over half the reason it’s worth using as the setting/plot/backdrop of … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Entertainment, Faith, Social media, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Cable Guy, COVID, Jim carrey, Social media, televsion
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Chapter 1–The Mural
The mural had become a part of the background noise. Elementary schools nearly always have murals, and this one was no different. Oak Valley Elementary School’s mural was a known quantity–an accepted part of the historical record. Painted in the … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Novel writing, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged book, books, novel, novel writing, publishing, Self publishing, writing
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Whoa. Seven chapters in already? Must be a stroke.
I’ve spent considerable time on this blog, not only writing a fulsome, scurvy heap of odd things, like this long-form essay about Billy Squier’s meteoric fall from musical grace, and use it basically try to foment discord, distrust, and division … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Blogging advice, Novel writing, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged book, books, bucket list, novel writing, publishing, Self publishing, writer's block, writing
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A few of you might remember–I was intending to write a book
I have had basically three books in me that I’ve wanted to write: 1. One of them involves the Founding Fathers. 2. One of them involves blues legend Robert Johnson. 3. One of them involves a ragamuffin band of childhood … Continue reading
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Tagged book, books, bucket list, publicity, publishing, writer's block, writing
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It’s clear to me: Yoda is Rey’s father
So how’s that for clickbait? Okay . . . sorry. But give me a minute, and maybe that theory could limp out of this conjectural waste of time without falling down. And I don’t care how many prequels or substandard, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Entertainment, Film Making, Uncategorized
Tagged Abrams, father, Force Awakens, leia, Luke Skywalker, Rey, Solo, Star wars
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Crowdfunding redux
A few weeks ago, I was standing outside, in a break area at work, tossing in my harmonies to the rhetorical cantata that was going on at the moment. My co-worker, Bill, mentioned that before he moved to my area, … Continue reading
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And now–yet another project in the works
When i decided on the moniker for this blog, it wasn’t exactly a task rendered under flippant conditions. Even if the title, “Master of None” seems as if it comes out of the same comedic genepool of,”are you working hard, … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic guitar, blues, Christian, Music, redemption
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Master Of None 