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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
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
Chuck Taylors, ukuleles, and my own sanity.
I really wish I was a one-note samba. I mean it. I wish I had one ability, one passion, one benevolent, artistic master to which I paid supplication and deference. But that isn’t me. One minute I’m a blogger. The … Continue reading
Comments, re-blogging, and the gratuitous traffic grab
Any engaged writer that has ever sat and Googled “How can increase my blog traffic” soon realized: the sites you are sent to did the same thing once and figured out that making a blog about increasing web traffic does … Continue reading
This momentum thing can get addicting (Oh, and WHAT ABOUT posting one’s work to the blog?)
All right. Seems like trying to pinch the germ of an idea out of one’s cerebral petrie dish is the hard part. I’m already a chapter in to my work. For me–THIS is the comparative cakewalk. Those that have been … Continue reading
And . . . book . . . STARTED!
A couple of posts ago, I stated that I had the idea for a non-fiction book–to wit: An academic satire; a good-natured Manchurian bloodletting of a humorless subject–but one in which I repair most of the wounds at the end. … Continue reading
A mishmash of Ukuleles, Yosemite, and Strum Shops
My buddy Rob phoned me up earlier in the year to see if I wanted to go to Yosemite and climb Half Dome. I said yes. Then I realized that seventeen-mile cardiovascular death march was going to require me to … Continue reading
And another book idea has hit me
So the other day, I was listening to a couple of morning guys in the Northern California area, Armstrong & Getty. Being that they’re on the radio, I can never seem to mentally parse which one is saying what, but … Continue reading
Step number three: magazine article idea accepted
In the next day or so, I’ll explain the completely serendipitous coincidence between me using the ’67 pyromaniacal Hendrix episode as the launchpad for my own life-changes and the fact that I spent the night sleeping on that very stage … Continue reading
Step Number two: Come up with an idea. Um, NOW might be helpful.
I had no intention of posting a follow up to the “possibly getting published” post from the other day. But then I realized. I’ve been writing for different things for years. I’ve been published in things that saw regionally-limited circulation. … Continue reading
Master Of None 