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Month: January 2015

Losing grip

Posted on January 28, 2015January 28, 2015

Do you ever feel like this when you don’t get the chance to write? I just had my ass kicked. My nose is broken. There is blood down my chin. I have a gash on my head, my vision is filled with red. I can’t think straight. I’m lying on the ground looking up at…

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Review: Sycamore Row by John Grisham

Posted on January 22, 2015January 1, 2016

I have mixed feelings about Sycamore Row by John Grisham. One one hand, I was invested in the outcome – I read it to the end and wanted to know how the story resolved – which is the joy of reading in a nutshell. On the other hand, I was disappointed many times with what felt…

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Meet Beast, the writer inside me

Posted on January 21, 2015

Sometimes, when I’m moving about my normal day, answering emails at the office, making proposals for customers, running errands with the family, there’s a voice inside of me asking me when I am going to sit my butt back down in a chair and write again. I call this voice Beast because he can be…

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Review: Revival by Stephen King

Posted on January 14, 2015January 1, 2016

I just finished reading Revival by Stephen King. I’m a big fan of King’s work. I’ve read and enjoyed most of his books during the course of my lifetime. Revival is a work produced by the hands of a master at his craft. King makes writing look effortless. He makes his genre, the horrifying, the dark and…

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Digging trenches (I miss writing first drafts)

Posted on January 11, 2015

I am ten days into the revision of my manuscript and I am jonesing to be writing first drafts again. Writing first drafts is a freeing experience. A solid couple of hours in the free-wheeling flow state of creating an ever-expanding new story is addictive. Writing first draft pages is like lovemaking; it’s fluid and all feeling…

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