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May 12, 2008

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It’s so brilliant… or One really great way to write something every day

August 24, 2006

There went I stumbling through the Internet just a little blind. When I opened my eyes I found Short Short Fiction by DBA Lehane. He uses Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day as a prompt. He plops out 500 words… unedited… first draft goodness (or not-so-goodness by his own admission). I won’t be stealing the blog [...]

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The Confession

May 18, 2006

Like Carl Lewis, this one got me from out of the gate. But unlike Lewis, the promise that “The Confession” reeled me in with vanished down the stretch. This book had it all: successful shrink with a penchant for infidelity, sexy Marin, intriguing (if not fresh) plot, a sleazy prosecutor, an angry wife, and a [...]

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Missing Persons

May 14, 2006

I’m not yet sure what I think of this novel. I got turned on to the author by my mom, who loaned me an earlier work called “Blinded.” My interest, really, is fuelled by proximity. White lives in Boulder, Colo., and his books are set in the quaint college town that lies just 40 miles [...]

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The simplicity cycle

May 12, 2006

I was zooming around the Internet the other day and I stumbled across a site called Change This. It’s another creation from marketing expert Seth Godin. This site, which he launched with Amit Gupta — the wunderkind behind The Daily Jolt — is an attempt to leverage the power of Web 2.0 … maybe not [...]

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The first draft is always shit

May 8, 2006

I was recently reading a from Immediate Fiction, the wonderful book from Jerry Cleaver at the The Writer’s Loft in Chicago. Cleaver pointed out the Ernest Hemingway quote that titles this post. Cleaver follows up by adding his own bit of wisdom … paraphrased: “If Hemingway thought all first drafts were shit, why should yours [...]

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