Category Archives: Blogging

Okay, Maybe I Have to Re-Write (and how my habit of trolling may get me published)

Posted on September 5, 2020 by Ron Giesecke

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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Re-writing Is for Suckers

Posted on August 30, 2020 by Ron Giesecke

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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. . . and my book is finished.

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Ron Giesecke

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 →

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Jim Carrey, and the The Clutch That Is Killing Us

Posted on July 25, 2020 by Ron Giesecke

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 →

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Chapter 1–The Mural

Posted on July 22, 2020 by Ron Giesecke

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 →

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Whoa. Seven chapters in already? Must be a stroke.

Posted on July 22, 2020 by Ron Giesecke

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 →

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A few of you might remember–I was intending to write a book

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Ron Giesecke

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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It’s clear to me: Yoda is Rey’s father

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Ron Giesecke

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 →

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Crowdfunding redux

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Ron Giesecke

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

Posted on March 26, 2016 by Ron Giesecke

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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