Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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in the stacks

I started unearthing them. Stacks and stacks of my notebooks and journals. They were in a huge plastic tub, covered in dust. These are the books I carried everywhere & the stray pages I wrote on when I was without them. At least the first stack.  Stay tuned and maybe I'll show you what's inside.

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Sunday, March 8, 2009

if you think you don't have time to write

Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 in the basement of the UCLA library, on a typewriter that cost a dime a half hour, during his lunch breaks. In the end it cost him $9.80 to write the first draft of one of the greatest novels ever written. Bradbury was a fantasy/ sci-fi writer before the genre was […]

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Friday, March 6, 2009

the place inside the words

I don't know if you really listen to song lyrics, but I do. Great songs are like poetry. They take you to the place inside the words, your own version of the song. If you don't know what I mean, read this one. And if you do, then you already know these lyrics are in […]

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Thursday, March 5, 2009
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some days are dark

and everything feels wrong and sad and lonely those are the days i write dark and sad and lonely because you can't write about scared or brokenhearted when everything is perfect on those days when the stars align when you look in the mirror and like what you see when you write pages and pages […]

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Monday, March 2, 2009

the average cat

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. – Hugh Maclennan  Let's hope ours lives longer.

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