Author post Cruel Graces 11 Jul 201730 Sep 2017 The grace of a cat is rooted in cruelty. Not just the cruelty of the kill itself, which, if you abstract it from the pain it imposes, is beautiful as…
Author post Stranger than Fiction 6 Jul 20176 Jul 2017 Sometimes, truth really is stranger than fiction, and you have to leave some of it out to make the generous lie of writing at all believable. A good example is…
Author post Distance Learning 2 Jul 201714 Jul 2017 Gina and I recently received a letter from my friend and colleague Kent Peterson, who lives in Eugene, Oregon. I mean mechanically received a letter, on paper, generated by a…
Author post Say What You Mean 28 Jun 201730 Jun 2017 Since I grew up with an engineer, I am practiced in the dark art of taking things literally. This held me back in the early days of my writing; since…
Author post Performance Anxiety: The Power of Words…and the Words of Power 25 Jun 20174 Jul 2017 I read an article this morning, a marvelously foul-mouthed rant on Southern sociopolitical hypocrisy, part of which I read aloud to my wife. The interesting point to me was that,…
Author post When Good Writing Goes Bad 23 Jun 201724 Jun 2017 Writing is one of the worst things you can do as a novelist, if you love it too much. This is especially so, I suspect, for those of us--and that…
Author post Official First Post 21 Jun 201724 Jun 2017 I suppose that it's now incumbent upon me to scribe the obligatory First Post, introducing myself to the alleged visitors of this website. I have been blogging pretty much since…
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