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I was watching Wall Street last night, you know the one with Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas slicking their hair back reciting dribble that has become modern American lexicon? Now I’m not even going to mention (outside of this sentence) how sad that is, because in order for a speech that is entitled “Greed is Good,” to become an American slogan it would mean that Americans are douche bags; for greed upon itself is not good, Read the rest of this entry »

So all the ducks were in a row, and the mountains collided and time and space had been opened for me (AGAIN), and here I sit with something profound and noteworthy to say about being a writer, and how it encompasses my soul and blah, blah, BLAH! No matter how third grade it sounds, I actually have a best friend. I’m not sure he’d take a bullet for me, but I assure you I’d take one for him. I think that Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve got this really cool surprise for podcast eleven, but as for podcast ten, it’s about finding someone you respect to hear you … cheesy people who take advantage of writers, and keep writing when you feel like all is lost … and I feel that way a lot, so listen … click on the link to the left to hear it on itunes, or just download it from this site from one of the links below … thanks

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Around 7000 people will die today; various causes, and mostly unimportant to the dead. I never much think about death. I think that has a lot to do with religion and how much I despise it. I tend to think that all religion is only a means to explain, justify, compensate, and understand death, but it is not. It only uses death to further it’s own agenda, Read the rest of this entry »

I was on an airplane the other day, and my finger got “caught” in (get this, I kid you not), an ashtray! I suppose what happened was that one of the ashtrays which were eventually soldered up after smoking became banned on airplanes in the eighties, had come loose. Now I’m not going to make this a rant about airlines and their lack of soldering skills, but Read the rest of this entry »

By my calculations every man, woman, and child in this country will be donating $49.81 to the automobile industry some time this week. This is on top of the $996.21 dollars they already donated to the banking industry. This actually adds up to about $1400 per adult, but that math is contingent on every adult paying federal income taxes, which isn’t necessarily true. Depending on whom you believe, around 36% of Americans either do not pay, or actually Read the rest of this entry »

The past couple days I finally got in touch with an old friend of mine. We exchanged a couple emails, and I ended up writing her a light-hearted note that was designed to renew our old friendship, which I had recalled with some pretty fond memories. I asked her about her life, and how odd the current path of her life would have looked to her younger self (as would anyone’s I assume), and she threw me back a hostile bitter retort that could only be considered Read the rest of this entry »

My last post was about self-promotion, but what I failed to mention, and probably the most important part, is that self-promotion is pretty useless unless you know exactly what is great about you. In other words, it’s not enough to tell people how great your work is, Read the rest of this entry »

I keep forgetting this is a blog is about writing, publishing, and well … frankly not about my life (mostly, although a writer’s life is surely part of the total package and should be celebrated and not avoided). I’ve sat through endless lectures about how to begin a story; once upon a time the door opened and he walked in kind of shit. And truth be told there are several different ways to begin a story. I don’t think I can tell anyone how to begin a story, because Read the rest of this entry »

Lately I’ve been blogging a lot about being all dialogue and no story, and I’ve purposely left out why I dropped my screenwriting class, because it’s only half the reason I did (the rest is great). I’ve debated in my mind how that makes me who I am and what I’m about. I mean am I going to wake up one morning and realize that my life has been nothing but a string of conversations that I have all but forgotten, save the profound, and that’s it? Will I realize Read the rest of this entry »