Honey, I’m sorry for all the late nights, Attempting in vain to refocus my sights. And clacking away by the laptop’s dull glow, Checking out to recapture my mental tableau… It’s just that in book land, few things compare, With new projects whose prose doesn’t pepper my hair. It’s small victories I use to measure good days, Like when word
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Only a few more posts left before the holidays here, so I thought we should get busy on some real controversial stuff like why the faceless mass of CBA readers don’t really care about good writing or something like that. Oh, but that’s not very festive. And I’m done being cheeky this year having used up all my credits to
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Here’s an interesting phenomenon. I haven’t heard it spoken of yet. What used to be called a short story is now being called a “short short story.” Any shorter than 1500 words and it’s now “flash fiction.” Those rare things we call short stories seem to be pushing the old novella length, and novellas are a bit longer too. And
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Busy today. A bit crazed, in fact. I’d like to say I’m good on days like these, but I’m not. In truth, they make me retreat into fantasy. Anything to escape… "Do you have the time," the clock asks, no doubt amused by the irony in his statement, I’m sure. Cheeky clocks are forever messing with me for no apparent
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I’m not going to belabor the point about the dangers of the Internet. It’s a moot point. No sense resuscitating the argument about the supposed digital destruction of our world…. Whether or not you believe that, the entire point is that the digital age is here to stay and it’s changing everything. We all know this, but we don’t know
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