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Shut Up, Already

Friday, December 19, 2008

Stop whining about the publishing industry tanking, or laying off a bulk of their editorial staff. Stop giving yourself excuses as to why you haven’t been published. Your book wasn’t published because it wasn’t good enough. If you truly worked diligently and didn’t sit around finding excuses for why your book doesn’t fit today’s market [...]

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On Works-in-Progress as Radiolarians

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Medeski, Martin, & Wood‘s latest record, Radiolarians I, is the first of a three-record project. The project is named after a single-cell organism that is marked by an often beautiful skeletal frame. Some mutations of the organism have only the skeletal frame and nothing in the way of an internal structure other than a ‘spine’. [...]

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At Play in the Fields of Time

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Mere minutes after my meeting with Chris Bachelder, he gave what the Conference called a “craft talk” on The Clock in Fiction. The thesis of the lecture was that most excellent stories have a “back wall,” or a point the story will not go past. In other words, if the reader (or the characters, for [...]

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Chris Bachelder Talks with Lydia Davis

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Here’s an entry from the Juniper Writers Institute at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. Alma Mater to many legendary scholars and thinkers, the greatest of whom being Doctor Marcus Camby. That boy can play, has played, ball. He a baller. He a Rhodes Baller. I’m here and I feel out of place, which [...]

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