Category Archives: Writing

Reblogging the self: A question for the WordPress community

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Does anyone here know or understand the re-blogging mechanism when it comes to reaching into the archives of one’s own blog? This is primarily to avoid having write the occasional “greatest hits” post every so often. Early on (almost a year … Continue reading →

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How to look like an ABJECT FOOL in front of others

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Here’s a picture of a European White Birch in my front yard: Click on it. It’s dead. I didn’t know it–or should I say I’ve been walking by it for months, and never managed to notice that it had died. … Continue reading →

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What does it mean

Posted on April 29, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

When the book you’re reading telling you “how to get a book published” is the only book the author OF THAT book has in print?

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Little thoughts for Wednesday

Posted on April 29, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Today, I suffer from the affliction of “not wanting to write some scrawling, magnum opus for five measly clicks today.”  What I mean by that is, I have a really steady stream of regulars coming in here. I have over … Continue reading →

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Ghosts in the machine, ghosts of a chance, and starting a novel 

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

So the initial starting point for the novel I’ve had in my head for years is finally begging to come out.  It’s got historical merit.  It’s got comedic offshoots.  It’s got out-and-out absurdity. So I’ll just say this much.  The … Continue reading →

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I guess I need to blog about books now. I’ll shut up about fishing.

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

I could actually write about the city of McCloud, Ca. and do it apart from the fact that the river is there, and I just happen to find it more magical than other places.  So . . . as far … Continue reading →

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Peripatetic blogging and the start of a novel 

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

  I’ve got a novel in my head. And I’m going to start discussing it in the general, even if I avoid the specifics. A while back, I wondered about the idea of sharing snippets of a novel on the blog. … Continue reading →

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Concerning the reverse-psychology of homeliness

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

A few years ago, I started messing around with buying dime-store reading glasses.  I did this mainly because my eyes would intermittently have moments of focal-challenges.  But 95 % of the time, I didn’t really need them. A few years … Continue reading →

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Mr. Big’s Eric Martin weighs in (sort of) on the creative process.

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

I know two things about Eric Martin.  One is, he is the singer/front man/vocal wonder that came into my consciousness with the advent of their eponymous record in the late eighties. Having been a musician/singer nearly all my life, I … Continue reading →

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Tuesday’s fodder and ennui

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

This week has been a torrential mish-mash of duties, work, caseloads and other bland-to-the-taste side orders of chronological revulsion. That also happens to be a convoluted, fibrous goiter of an excuse to explain why I’ve written almost nothing of consequence … Continue reading →

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