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I can feel my feet on solid ground
2008-03-08 01:22:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page. I?ve been at a hard slog with writing for some months now. Most of you who?ve read ?The Anatomy? for a while will know that I?ve been struggling terribly. Recently I rolled back my writing to make way for what was supposed to be a flood of money from my engineering work- there wasn?t a flood, there wasn?t even a trickle. Things reached a howling crescendo at the start of the week, when after working myself into a harried mess, I was looking at being unable to make ends meet, in a big way. I was trying to write more and more, but couldn?t focus, I couldn?t even string together the most basic of articles for ghost writing. I couldn?t sleep, and because I couldn?t sleep, every little thing was beginning to gnaw at me. I took to listening to Radiohead, and walking alone along ragged bluffs that overlook the sea at night; it had gotten to the point where I A) didn?t know how I was going to pay the rent, B) w...
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The recipe for bum glue
2008-03-07 01:51:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page.Well, the work is going slow working on the blog ring. I forget how lucky I am sometimes to be able to write prolifically; it?s not a gift, it?s something you work to achieve, but when you become all to accustomed to it, you forget that while other people sometimes have the same work ethic, they can?t do the things that you can do.I try to write, a minimum of fifteen thousand words a day- when I?m writing full time, I write only an extra five thousand- there?s a limit to the time I can work at that speed, the rest is editing time. I need a lot of time fore editing- usually eight or ten drafts before anything is rolled out the door- (but for the exception of The Anatomy- a fact I?m sure more than a few of you have noticed.)Here are the things that help me do it:- Deadlines. I set tight deadlines, and I really beat myself up if I don?t meet them.- Goals. I set small goals each day- one to meet, and the other to exceed. So if I?...
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Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast
2008-03-06 01:40:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page. I guess my first experiences with writing and reading made it something I savored and saw as a great way both into the world, and out of the problems I felt. This wasn?t some teenage angsty revelation, this was something I think I learned when I was very young, just starting at school. I grew up in a small country town in Victoria, Australia, where the men are men, and the sheep are afraid. My parents had only been in the town for about seven years, so we hadn?t yet passed the seven generation minimum to be classified as locals, and so weren?t to be treated with anything but the most dismissive of tones- we weren?t like them. Thank Goodness. The school I went to, the parents had played together as kids, their grandparents had played together as kids, and so on back to what I now realize had to be a single mating pair of hill-billys. I spent my time when I was very young drawing, and inventing things that would have pro...
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Overcoming the odds.
2008-03-05 01:09:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page.What a day. I got up this morning, thought to myself about all the wondeul things I could accomplish today, and then logged onto the beige beast to see what awaited me. I looked at a few blogs that I enjoy, and went to click their Entrecard- nothing, just some weird thing appeared where ?Thanks? should be. OK, I thought, this, as they say on the near pacific rim, is odd. I was not getting credit from my clicks, and then I wondered, maybe they?ve changed their system.I was right, they?ve increased security measures against auto droppers. A good thing. Only I can?t open pages in new tabs, and I can?t run off the page of links I created in word with all my most favoritest of bloggers on it.Bummer.This is not all bad though- the idea of blogging isn?t getting hits- the hits are secondary to readers- not people who glance at your page and click away. The essence of a blog that is made up predominantly of text is the readership, no...
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Writing pop
2008-03-04 01:07:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page. Some days I count myself as blessed that I have such a flexible lifestyle. OK, the engineering work- going poorly. It?s not so much the work, s the pay check, which is in the exceedingly slow grinding entrails of the corporate structure, one with anachronistic government structures still within, rotting out all that?s good. Enough with that though. Ideas constantly abound, and I?m looking at expanding my freelance capabilities- which I?ve been doing a lot of lately. Becoming involved with the physical press and reviewing comedy, music and theatre; becoming stumbled across by established writers. I kinda really love blogging though. Blogging and novel writing seem to be the two chief activities my writing wants to revolve around. This is nice, but very unlikely to guarantee a comfortable retirement in a lavish mountain estate overlooking the ragged buffs where the crashing sea can inspire me to write further. No, in fac...
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Things Thom Yorke taught me.
2008-03-03 02:12:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page. I listen to a lot of Radiohead . Radiohead, for those of you unfamiliar with the band, is an English Band, heavily influenced by REM and having gone on to influence acts such as Muse, Snow patrol, Oasis and Blur. They have also revolutionized the way music has sold, even the most conservative of us must admit that their Album release last year- In Rainbows- Created a ripple that was felt the world over. Thom Yorke , the writer and singer, aside from a peculiar ethereal quality to his voice, is a writer of some of the deep, and evocative lines I have had the pleasure of hearing. In the same manner that the works of Leonard Cohen are disparaged as depressing, Thom Yorke, and Radiohead in general is reputed to be music that makes people want to kill themselves. It?s odd, because at the very surface, if you take no more than impressions on board, you could look at it as very depressing music. The sort of thing that would ma...
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The similarities between playing the Uke and writing prose.
2008-03-02 02:10:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page. OK, Now blogger loves me, and I love it again, but I?m still checking out the wonders of Wordpress. Yesterday, as part of my reviewing extravaganza, I found myself at the Governor Hindmarsh, watching both the South Australian Ukelele Appreciation Society, and the Melbourne Ukelele Kollective perform. It was a three hour show, and while I went with just a few of the smallest doubts in my mind, I came away surprised and a little humbled. The Ukelele is considered by some to be a comical instrument something for the kids and the over tall clown or the Tiny Tim?s of this world. I had not recognized that the Ukelele, like any other instrument, can generate great emotional impact. I laughed when I first heard them start on Radiohead ?s ?Fake Plastic Trees? but soon came to realize that they, just as I, were using the tools they enjoyed, to tell a story that they could relate to and that entertained an audience. ...
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You need no other.
2008-03-01 01:55:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page. I was told I?d be having a pleasant evening relaxing last night. Just another thing that didn?t happen due to circumstances beyond my control, and now this? OK, that?s it, my next blog is going on Wordpress. I work to a deadline, I work to several deadlines, which are each deadly deadlines, tight hard savage deadlines that would scare any sane person. Not I, no, I forge ahead, despite the fact that I lost all connection to blogspot for an hour. Yes, there was to be no posting. ?Oh well, I thought, I think I might just do some Entrecard dropping,? you know, get the stats up there. It?s amazing how many Entrecard members use blogspot. Nearly everyone I know uses Blogspot, whether it be for domain or hosting. Blogspot goes own, no drops, no postings, me left sitting wondering what the hell comes now. Let google dent my unblemished post-a-day record? Fortunately things got better, just before deadline time....
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Sucking at the lint on their sleeves
2008-02-29 02:16:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page. Time to revamp the page again, it?s getting ugly. Those who say they perform best under pressure do not know the pressures one can run against. Last night I saw Dave Graney? POINT BLANK, and was blown away. Here?s a guy who is a writer at heart, writer cum rock star, putting on what could well be a one man musical with accompaniment. It was great, one quote stood out though, ?Yeah, I?ve seen all those writers, sucking on the sleeve of your jacket, sucking the lint of the sleeve of your jacket and going home and coughing up that ball of lint because they can no longer cough up fur balls of their own? I felt as though I should feel uncomfortable, like it was directed at me, because I sat writing throughout the gig- the review of the gig. It wasn?t directed at me though, it was directed at what I call the coffee shop writers, the people who talk about writing over coffee or beers and tell people as the time passes what a ...

Filling in the gaps
2008-02-28 02:12:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page. It feels strange not to be writing a review this morning, I wonder how odd it?s going to feel when I no longer write ?The Anatomy?? every morning. This of course, is never going to happen, I remain ever the humble servant of the muse and quite frankly really could do with a rate rise.I was reading through a Stephen King book last night, ?The Tommyknockers,? it?s like sitting down with a box of chocolate, and a movie. You know it?s not going to do anything beneficial with you, but it?s so much fun to read. King has of course mastered that art of writing foot thick page turners that you can?t put down until the sun rises. Which is pretty much what I was on my way to doing before my body finally gave out. I awoke this morning, and felt like an alcoholic waking to know they?d been on a binge. The book was only three quarters of the way finished, and my eyes were swollen and red from lack of sleep.There is something about his w...
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Learning to send out spin.
2008-02-27 00:54:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page. Seventeen hour days, you gotta wonder how long this can go on for before hysterical exhaustion kicks in. See the trouble is, I still have to maintain the writing caper until the first pay check comes in from my engineering work, which is draining and straining to say the very least. I no longer have bags under my eyes, they?ve now slipped to the rather less visible region of my knees. This is proving- interesting- when it comes to writing. These reviews for the Adelaide Fringe festival are strange things. I would feel bad to write a review that says, ?Wow, this guy sucked. He sucked so hard I was regretting being there,? It?s much better to support local comedy with an honest, but encouraging review- just ignore the rough edges. Not always easy when all you?d like them to do is go back to writing new material and have nothing to do with their old. The wording I use for these reviews seems to me, a little sparkly to say t...
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Restrictions and Ninjas
2008-02-26 02:18:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page. Typing faster than a typing ninja on Crack Cocaine. OK, time is short- When I returned to this world of making a non writerly income I didn?t give a thing up. I couldn?t- it?s a compulsion, an urge, a upwelling of not creativity, but an outlet for the articulation of character through the written word. I?ve been writing the review for the fringe show I saw last night, a great TheatreSports event called, ?21st Century Clash of the Theatre Titans. It?s where Comics compete in events, in this case, for a large, gold painted plastic cup. Which is nice. It?s fascinating to watch these people work. One act was challenged to tell the story in only one syllable words- these were the guys from Sound and Fury, a US act that won best of the Fringe in Canada. Watching them smoothly tell the story, with only two mistakes left me thinking that these guys must be some of the best writers in the world. They?re working within the increas...
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Finding the fascination in a pie.
2008-02-25 02:20:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page. Took a very swift lesson in the mundane last night. We?d just seen a show, and were on our way to another. Why not, it?s a Sunday night, and we?re professionals. We stopped off at the North Adelaide bakery for a quick bite to eat, a pie, a sausage roll, something to fill the space that was chewing up my stomach. Beside us stood a group of Tourists, and one girl was saying to another, ?They don?t have pies with meat in them back home, I mean you can get apple pies and that, but I?ve never had a pie with meat in it,? It made me wonder what an experience this would be, how strange it would seem, and how lucky she was, to be old enough to appreciate the flavors, to taste a pie for the first time. It made me think on what I was eating, and how it tasted, to blank my mind of all my preconceptions and taste the food. I guess this is one of the blessings of being a writer- your life can become more vivid if you apply those too...
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Getting the job done
2008-02-24 01:31:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size view.Jaysus, Tom! Now there?s some good advice, Just do it? That?ll make it easier to get done?I?m currently rereading ?Musashi? by Eiji Yoshikawa and this is leaving me in a Zen state of mind. ?Musashi? for those who came in late, is the story of the Samurai Musashi Miyamoto, a master swordsman, founder of his own style (Niten Ichi Ryu) and author of ?The book of five rings? Musashi was greatly influenced by Takuan Soho, an Abbot of the Rinzai Zen sect. The essential practice of Zen is Zazen, quiet sitting. Some people call it meditation, and want to project into worlds other than this one and attain magical powers. Not so with Zen. It is simply the practice of sitting quietly. Not thinking, and not not thinking, just sitting quietly, taking no more effort than that.I think we?ve all tried the meditative practice of sitting and not thinking. I think we?ve all tried it and failed. It can sometimes be very hard for us to do one thi...
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More sound advice.
2008-02-23 01:01:00
Click the image to the right to see the full size page. Hah, I enjoyed that line, ?Think of your stories like they were your children- it?s wrong to lock them in the cupboard,? it?s true though. I was talking the other night to a professional musician and we were discussing the number of incredibly talented people in Adelaide City- there are some incredible artists here. My friend agreed, but added, ?It doesn?t mean much though if they never leave their bedrooms,? One of the hardest parts about writing is the fact that no matter what format you want to be published in, you are going to get rejections. Everyone tries to avoid rejection in many different ways. Many try to improve their work. Some try to get an inside edge in the industry through personal networks. The most popular way, amongst writers, of avoiding is rejection, is not submitting your writing. This method is much more popular than you think, and is incredibly effective. If you send n...
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Never buy a wooden frying pan.
2008-02-22 01:32:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page. For those of you wondering at the title of this post, I could find no other place to put this wisdom down, and it's the finest piece of advice I've ever received. Some days are diamonds, said John Denver . He also said some days are stone and this day is very definitely beginning to take on all the features of a large granite thing. I don?t use face book. Won?t, dislike it in the extreme. It?s like a canker on the soul of society. It is ironic that through another?s use that I managed to contract some evil little VBS thing virus-hate-spawn that denies all computers access to my USB. We know this, and still seek a cure. Other computers see it, they register the USB drive, but it cannot be read, or written to. Which is not a good thing, as they say in the classics. Quite frankly it made me feel completely flat, like I should drag myself out on the street and be run over a couple of times rather than posting today....
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Say "Radish" exactly one-hundred and forty-two times
2008-02-21 01:51:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page.What does it mean if you dream that someone keeps sending comments to your blog saying your posts are great, but too long? Oh well, never mind the good advice of my dreaming comments, it?s the dreaming that?s the issue. Yes, dreaming about blogging. And I?m only new to this whole thing?Publicizing a blog is harder than the advertisements and banners would have you think. You can?t simply get away with dropping your blog to blog networking sites and expecting to see a mass increase in your hits. You might notice, in the first few weeks, a small rise in the number of hits you get, but until you start participating in the community; you chat on forums, you swap links, you comment where you can, help people out with questions if they ask, or seem to be struggling.Hey, we all made mistakes, and generally there was a blogger there, in the community that was willing to help up out when you asked. This is a big part of marketing, the...
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Sweeney Todd is a vote of Confidence
2008-02-20 02:10:00
Click to the image on the right to see the full size page. I love seeing people mix up mediums to produce a result. I was stoked when I saw ?The nightmare before Christmas,? making a Bing Crosby musical of something quite macabre. I was joyous when I saw my two favorite actors modeled in clay and performing together, as husband, and wife in ?The Corpse bride? but dubious when I heard of ?Sweeney Todd ; the Demon Barber of fleet street,? A musical, I said, Like ?Paint your wagon,? only without Lee Marvin? But I saw it despite these concerns, showing a great faith in the trio of Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Burton. My faith was well placed, the film was ghastly, entertaining, heart wrenching and hilarious at once. In some way Burton has managed to capture an almost Shakespearian element of telling in the story, and while often, the performers and music mismatch in an ugly fashion by and large it serves well as both a medium of telling the story, and of portraying the character. ...
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Of Focus and Friends.
2008-02-19 01:57:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page. I have a strange thing with story writing. If it?s short, I can sit down and lash something out in ten minutes, say, for a thousand words, and they mostly make me smile. I don?t have to think about the story too much, I don?t have to worry about the flow of the story, and it comes out just fine. I do a lot of this sort of writing, for my own creative venting. It?s healthy to reel off little stories about what you see, what you think, and illustrations of what you feel. It helps you manage those events of your life, and capture story while improving your overall writing. Longer works are something else. Which brings me of course to the logical point of this post. The value of obsession. If you want to write well it has to become an obsession, if you want to write professionally it should be a part of you. We can often have a concept that obsession is bad. It depends on the focus, and the degree with which you manage your ...
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I think the tone of the story is....
2008-02-18 01:32:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page. With the current changes my life is going through, I have seen more and more that the line between a person who makes their living creatively and someone working a ?Regular? nine to five job is a very fine one indeed. Wishful thinking, some people would say, it?s a chasm more than a line. Which is also true? I don?t mean to say, don?t act with considerable trepidation, fear and uncertainty when it comes to crossing the line, taking a profession in arts with your enthusiasm as qualification can be daunting; your friends may be write, you may never make a million. You may also never make a million working at a desk for the rest of your life. To make the million People talk about requires a great effort, and it doesn?t matter what you poor that effort into, there can come events that unseat you. Your company could go broke, you could get sued and lose it all. The question is, is what you?re doing making you fulfilled and ha...
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The Wiggles, and writing what you love
2008-02-17 01:31:00
Click on the image to right to see the full size page. Obviously I?ve been thinking a lot about change, and different angles lately, how sometimes you have to step back from things, cool your heels and try again from another approach. Then I came across this song. Sometime late last century, in the eighties, there was a band in Australia called ?The Cockroaches?- I remember The Cockroaches because I spent a very intense rock star moment playing a cardboard Keyboard in some weird sort of lunch time school play, and I?m almost sure I was pretending to play the right part of the song. The song was called, ?She?s the one,? some bouncy, hidden angst E-street type rock. Hey, it was the eighties, and it felt good. The Cockroaches evaporated, disappeared like the Scotch mist. Most people who have had musicians as friends will realize that you can?t stop once you?ve started playing with bands- you?ll be in and out of bands for the rest of your life- the rush of being o...
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Test, Observe, Test
2008-02-15 22:19:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page. I always though Finnegans wake should have an apostrophe between Finnegan and the S- it is the possessive article of Finnegan, isn?t it? Ah, who cares, we?ve got bigger fish to fry than the punctuation peculiarities of famous Irish writers. Like my new adventure in freelancing. Freelancing online can be Very difficult. There are people that will try and get your work for free. There are sites that fold after you?ve posted to them, there are deadlines running on an international time clock. This can all be very difficult, and if you?ve no professional recommendations aside from online writing to present it can be very difficult to break into the Feelies. As I mentioned several posts back, I?m going to be doing some review work for the Adelaide Fringe festival, which will be exciting, but also provide me with some sorely needed publishing credits in the physical market. I?ll admit, I?ve been lazy. Online, ...
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Be Confident
2008-02-15 01:16:00
Click on the image to the right to view the full size page. I started thinking about how I gather all the little stories together to fit around one big story. I?m not a terribly creative person. I can?t invent stories out of thin air. I can invent situations, and work from there, but this is damned hard work. Truth, always being stranger than fiction, and my writing being stranger than most, is my feeding pool for story ideas. In any given day you?ll see one story worth recounting. You tell these stories to the people you see frequently, make note of them. If you thought the guy shearing the rear passenger side wheel of his Subaru when he clipped a curb in a drag race was funny, tell the story. Blogging is an interesting asset to any writer who creates story this way. Any blogger who has laid up hundreds of posts in a Diary style blog has probably accumulated a few fairly good stories, and probably a few that make them, and other people grin. Or cry. Or think on how fortunate ...
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It's the words you don't use...
2008-02-14 01:22:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page. Your writing can lead you on adventures if you point it at the things you love. Adventures aren?t always good, but nor are they always bad. By freelancing, I get to explore the things that interest me. This can be from the arts, to social issues, politics, religion, philosophy and music. But mostly music. A friend of mine has hooked me up with some reviewing work at this Year?s Adelaide Fringe festival, writing reviews on several comedy shows. Which promises to be a good time. The guidelines are simple, you work for free, you get free tickets, you write 150 words and submit within 24 hours. One hundred and fifty words is a sneeze, and they way I write at gigs produces, in a two hour gig, about two thousand words of notes. Which is fantastic. One hundred and fifty words to a review and a two thousand word grab bag of great moments if perfect. I love this kind of editing. Natalie Goldberg called editing ?Samurai mode? an...
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Rock Operas and giant robots
2008-02-13 01:28:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page.This was always inteneded as a first draft. The Anatomy of Construction is one of the most entertaining things I?ve written, from my point of view, and continues to help me understand not just why I write, and what I pursue in my writing, but what I can do to make the process easier for myself, and help clear some of the mist of mystery that lingers around writing. It really is as easy as simply sitting down and writing.Of course, I?ll continue posting ?The Anatomy?? daily, struture is important, and to stop now would be to say I?d said all that needed to be said.It?s what happens after you?ve finished writing a piece that can be stressful, difficult and worrying. The next draft of ?The anatomy?? is a little bit different. I count myself as very lucky, being a freelancer I can puruse avenues of writing that interest me. I?ve always like the idea of putting together a graphic novel. Not like Captain America, or Spiderman, or a...
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Would you try it on a plane? Would you try it on a train?
2008-02-12 01:00:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page.Writing about writing from new points of view made me think, ?Why does it add to your writing?? Well, it?s just a new point of view.When I was writing today?s page I was having a fine old time thinking of a Greek Orthodox priest putting himself in Hunter S Thompson ?s shoes in Fear and loathing in Las Vegas. Just imagine the writing he?d produce. It certainly wouldn?t be the same as Thompson?s, but it would contain some mad element that the writer would never have dreamed of before.When you do this, all you?re really doing is learning about a side to the world that you?re not familiar with- you?re comparing your opinions to a situation, and describing your resultant action. It?s easy to have opinions of views and lifestyles, but most times we can?t back them up with the experience. It is a purely conceptual opinion. While writing about a situation does not give you the same experience as delving into it, it does allow you to a...
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Vivid Story telling and metaphors
2008-02-11 01:17:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page.The Big Day Out left me with something that lasted. Right now I?ve Billy Bragg coming through the Speakers, New England.I?ve been thinking about film more and more lately, looking at the visual ways to tell a story, and wondering how they might translate into writing and carry the same tone. In particular, I was remembering a short film. I think it was called Tornado, or Hurricane.It was the summation of a young mother?s life and death as a junky, the Tornado reference came from The wizard of Oz. The story was jarring; she told her own narrative as the camera captured moments of her life; prostituting herself, ODing in public toilets, and eventually her death. Despite all this the narrator held a rose colored lens to it all, knowing that things would soon get better for her, and whenever things got tough, she?d let the tornado take her away. At the end of the tornado was the happy contrast, the dream she clung too. A house, a...
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Pigs and soaring, Eagles and mud
2008-02-10 00:23:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page. The question is of course, not how one can soar with the eagles in the morning and wallow with the swine at night, but how one can wallow with the eagles at night, and soar with the pigs in the morning, such is the world we live in. I write better in the evenings than I do in the mornings, so I structure my writing around that. Or I try to, which is a problem. You see, I have to get “The Anatomy…” out in the morning, and I like to post something for “There’s a girl in the bottom of my glass,” and given the fact that I am a Lazy writer, I tend not to think about either of them until the morning. This always creates a moment of apprehension. It takes a little while to get the machine going, to call down inspiration. I wake up, I scratch myself, much like the orangutan I resembled at birth, and then I wonder what I can write about. I’ve one asset that makes this trauma much easier to deal with...
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Getting around the block, letting things Rise.
2008-02-09 02:07:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full size image. Sorry for the dastardly quality today- the technology has been frustrating me, grrrrr.I woke today, full of a very great hope. Last night, Meredith and I decided to watch Rise, a movie jsut released to DVD starring Lucy Liu . It was a bad film. it was beyond bad, and swerved into the diabolical, cleared the line that separated it for so bad you laughed and landed somewhere in horrifying horror with me in silent shock at having lost one hundred and fourteen minutes of my life to this irresponsible act of vandalism of society and art. There really was nothing to redeem it.Pinocchio knew less about wooden acting than this cast. The story was a Frankenstein?s monster, part revenge, part horror, part lightweight soft porn, and one sickly part action. At no level did it work, and as we we?re turning on the lights I kept repeating, ?Someone got paid to write that,? This may be no slight on the writer, low wages, edi...
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Learning to paint the skies blue.
2008-02-08 00:44:00
Click on the image to the right to see the full page.Ah, so the truth comes out, writing is a profession of accomplished thieves and liars. This would come as now surprise to some people. Ours is a notorious profession, full of twisted creatures that never see the light of day?.I have had a bad time with writers groups, they?ve done me no favors whatsoever. I?ve associated with individuals from these groups, and on getting to know them better have been shocked at both their ethics and behavior. One nameless soul made some fairly inappropriate sexual passes at me, another tried to offer his services as an agent on the spot for only eleven hundred dollars, several were talking constantly about having not written a word for years.Which began to make me wonder what I?d gotten myself into, whether at some later date I too was going to change into one of these slug shaped viperous creatures. There were some bright and shining stars, but it just didn?t seem worth cutting the time out of my...
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