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I’ve mentioned this before on this blog and podcast (number six is in the works by the way … I’m recording it this weekend), but in case you’ve missed it, I’m dyslexic. I actually have a pretty bad case of it, and during college (and high school), I had a really hard time keeping up with all the reading I had to do. I came up with a ton of tricks to fake my way through it, and eventually I got so good at it, I wasn’t even reading any of my assigned reading. Mostly I would listen Read the rest of this entry »

Here is the short story I cite in my last blog … not one of my best, but I still dig it.

everyday

Everyday his alarm goes off at 5:36 am. He Read the rest of this entry »

I start every story I write with a sentence. If you’re not a writer, or fancy yourself a scribe, you might assume that is about the most asinine thing anyone has ever written, but if you ARE a writer (which you probably are) you’ll recognize right away that I don’t write like other writers do.

Every writing book ever written tells Read the rest of this entry »

I usually do my podcasts on Wednesday, and trust me, it’s pretty fucking cool that anyone is listening, but in the beginning I have to be honest I was going to talk about that stupid conference forever, and after I got done with that, I was going to go Read the rest of this entry »

A couple weeks ago a friend of mine told me that she was declaring bankruptcy. I didn’t think too much about this since I knew her finances were messy since her divorce, and just shrugged it off, but it was foreshadowing, I assure you. The other Read the rest of this entry »

During my stint at the writer’s conference, I learned a great many things about literary fiction. First off, these conferences, classes, and the like ARE the market for literary fiction. There is no other market, and trust me those kids at Powell Book store aren’t buying your quality novel, they’re hanging out drinking coffee and reading it there. I kept hearing over and over Read the rest of this entry »

Podcast five is up … in case you’re tired of this Squaw Valley’s Writer’s conference, you’re in luck, although this is a great podcast, it’ll be the last one about the damn conference … have fun. I’ve put it in an mp3 format in case you were having problems, you can still always hit the link to your right if you want to listen on itunes … and if you do please leave a kick ass feedback. In fact do that anyways. Thanks

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I’ve been a bit late on the podcast this week, but here’s a story I’ve been working on … thanks Kael

ABBY by Kael

I don’t remember ordering them, but they came in the mail today. A nondescript gray envelope, addressed to me, lying on my porch. It Read the rest of this entry »

You know I promised this would never be a political ranting blog, and I will continue that thread to my death (I’ll change my mind soon enough, trust me). You see I don’t blame this economic situation the country is in or the Democrats or the Republicans, I blame it on the people who have been screwing me since day one. I put the blame dead square on the fucking YUPPIES! Yeah if you read Generation X by Douglas Coupland (which you should, because it’s brilliant!), you’d know all about those dirty little pie hoarders. We know who you are Read the rest of this entry »

When I started to do this podcast / blog I sent out a couple emails to people just to let them know what I was doing, and mostly because I knew they would probably be interested in the content, being that they were writers as well (unpublished or not). A couple of the emails when out to people in my writers workshop group at Squaw Valley, and to be quite Read the rest of this entry »