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It wasn’t that long ago that I remarked that this carved out slice of Internet space was woefully out of date. Look below about two posts and see it for yourself.

Like before, I have been keeping up with the reading. In fact, I’m just about to finish my June slog: Stephen King’s, The Stand. I started this beast a few days before my wife and I left for vacation Memorial Day weekend. [click to continue...]

I read this morning that NBC fired a producer for plagiarism:

The script said that trainer Michael Matz “ran into the fire to save the lives of three children.” The narrator paused dramatically and said, “ran into the fire.”

The pause and last line echoed one delivered by Martin Sheen, who plays the president on “The West Wing,” in a scene in the NBC series’ fourth season.

As a writer, I’ve been keeping my eye on the scandals in the publishing world with interest. From James Frey’s spinning of life events from whole cloth to the latest round of upheaval … Kaavya Viswanathan’s thievery from a couple of beloved books from her childhood.

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I submitted this story to a magazine called The First Line. It didn’t sell and I didn’t think it would. I tackled the piece because the premise of the magazine intrigues me — each story in the publication begins with the same first line — and I wanted to submit something.

I didn’t think it would sell because I’m still learning my craft and I knew what I ended up with wouldn’t be very good. Frankly, I hadn’t written much fiction since I was in college. Read for yourself.

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