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Tag Archives: publishing
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
Posted in Blogging, Books, Uncategorized, Writing
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
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writing
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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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
Posted in Blogging, Books, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged book, books, bucket list, publicity, publishing, writer's block, writing
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What does it mean
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?
Update on my “fireside chats with successful people” idea.
I Actually don’t intend to call it that–I mean why would I want to dump Franklin D. Out of his originality chair? I unexpectedly got my first hit the other day–an email from an author whose work I am … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged AMC, author, dead, interview, publishing, walking, writiing, zombies
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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
Posted in Books, Film Making, Guitar, Music, Ukulele, Writing
Tagged Blogging Advice, Jake Shimabukuro, publicity, publishing, Self publishing, Skype, ukulele instruction, writing
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My favorite guitar solo of all time
Growing up in a varied and independent pentecostal/charismatic circle of spiritual youth-rearing had many cool side-effects. Not the least of which was the ability to pursue music that was loud, melodic and passionate. At age thirteen, I bought my first … Continue reading
Posted in Guitar, Music, Writing
Tagged Angus Young, Black Sabbath, C.S. Lewis, George Lynch, Glenn Kaiser, Guitar Solo, publishing, Rainbow's End, Resurrection band, Stu Heiss, Van Halen
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