Monthly Archives: April 2005

BJD

4/28/2005 – 4:36 pm

I just finished what’s hopefully the last of the major rewrite of Blackjack Davy. It’s not ready to go, but almost. This was the first “real” story I put any time into once I started writing. It’s based on the folk song of the same name and, in the original version, it sailed very close [...]

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Sad State of Spurs

4/26/2005 – 4:31 pm

Spurs are almost certain to blow their shot at qualifying for Europe via their league standing despite the fact that it’s a completely doable scenario. With three games to go and 48 points to their name, they play Aston Villa (on 47 points), Middlesbrough (on 49), and Blackburn a few spots back. Boro have an [...]

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How Long is a Piece of String?

4/25/2005 – 1:09 pm

From http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com: Novel: A work of 40,000 words or more. Novella: A work of at least 17,500 words but under 40,000 words. Novelette: A work of at least 7,500 words but under 17,500 words. Short story: A work of under 7,500 words. I would add flash stories to this list as anything under 1,000 words [...]

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My Homie Homer

4/21/2005 – 10:35 am

Ah, Homer. I had a long talk about “The Iliad” with brother Todd last night and it really makes me want to read it again. Is it my favorite book? That’s tough to say. Probably. Achilles is one my favorite characters of all time and it’s hard to come up with a book I could [...]

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Kalevala Rocks

4/18/2005 – 6:46 pm

I forgot to mention yesterday that while my evening reading is John Kessel, my lunchtime reading is The Kalevala and oh man, is it good. I bought it a few weeks before Clarion last year and read the first dozen chapters or so before I had to plunge into the Clarion instructors’ stuff and I [...]

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(Untitled)

4/17/2005 – 10:00 pm

Best line from Deadwood last night came in the opening minutes from Al Swearengen: “The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more fucking punishment in store. “ To continue a theme. Last week… and this week Believe me, it keeps growing. And growing. And growing until the cat becomes impossible to find [...]

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Rewriting What’s Been Written

4/11/2005 – 11:31 am

I was kvetching a while back about the difficulty in taking all the stuff I’d learned at Clarion and fitting it into my bunch of pre-Clarion stories I’ve written. Boris Layupan, a Clarion chum of mine, passed on a word advice he picked up from an author at another workshop (I think it was Dean [...]

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If You’re Quiet, You Can Hear Them Growing

4/10/2005 – 1:25 pm

It’s begun. Last week… and this week We had a couple good showers during the week followed by plenty of sun. We hope some of those things pushing up through the soil are plants, not weeds. I happened to be flipping through cable channels the other day and saw a snippet from “Little Shop of [...]

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The Waiting is the Hardest Part

4/5/2005 – 1:08 pm

Tom Petty said it best. The waiting is the hardest part. I’ve currently got four stories pending at various markets with a bunch more ready to go. I’m finding that it’s easier to keep moving if I have a number of irons in the fire simultaneously, so to speak. Writing and editing short shorts (around [...]

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God Hates MLS and Preparing for an Explosion

4/3/2005 – 9:34 pm

Major League Soccer kicked off Saturday to enter its tenth season and it’s back up to twelve teams. The opening match (or “First Kick” as dubbed by the league’s marketers who have managed to tag naming rights to everything under the sun) featured Chivas USA, one of the exapansion teams this year, and defending champs [...]

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