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Announcement Time!
Hey kids, I’ve passed the cut off date for literary agent responses. Safe enough to assume the remainders are rejections. And that means just one thing: Time to go it alone. SELF PUBLISHING! Truth is, it scares the hell out … Continue reading
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Oh No, it’s Another One of Those, “When I was a Kid,” Posts…
Not a rant, I promise. But seriously, when I was young, there was always someone, at every gathering, who could play guitar, or harmonica, or beat a drum. And we would sit around, many of us in varying stages of … Continue reading
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Writing Update: Pt. umpteen-ish
Seriously, I have no idea how many writing update entries I’ve done. (I know, I could like, look it up, but whatever…) So, on the novel front: I have 8 literary agents I’m either waiting to hear back from, or … Continue reading
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Tagged literary agents, publishing, self publishing, The Writing Life, writing, writing update
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Putting the Civil Back in Civilization: Argumentation for the Very Busy (part II)
Everything on Earth with substance has a form. A pattern of arrangement by which we recognize it as an individual entity – a thing unto itself. Argument is no exception. (If, at this point in time you haven’t read the … Continue reading
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Tagged Argument, civilization, culture, democracy, logic
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A Brief Interlude
Hi guys and gals, I had planned to post the second part of my Argumentation for the Incredibly Busy series, but life, as it does, got in the way. Nothing too serious, please don’t worry. The Wife and I had … Continue reading
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Pieces, Puzzles, and …
It’s been a thing, my entire life; Not fitting. Which is difficult for a member of a species that bases much of its survival on the ability to stick together. (Yeah, we have imagination, and bipedalism going for us, but … Continue reading
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Putting the Civil Back in Civilization: Argument: an Introduction
In recent years, hasn’t it just felt like people don’t know how to talk to each other about controversial topics anymore? Seems like there’s no end of online screeds, rants, polemics, fights, and the occasional incitement to riot. It’s one … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Argument, culture, democracy, discourse, logic, politics, Saving the World
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Since You’ve Been Gone…
…Oh no, wait. That’s me. I’ve been gone. A while now. Lots of reasons, thanks for asking. Some of it was definitely depression. Seems I can’t ever get too far from that, not yet anyways. Some of it was a … Continue reading
It’s New Year’s Eve…
…And I hate being sick during the holidays. For a week now, I’ve felt like the crusty floor of a NYC taxi cab, sometime after the ball has already dropped. My sinuses feel like Mardi Gras after the beads ran … Continue reading
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Tagged being the best you, Goal setting, New Year, New Year's Resolututions, planning
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