1. “I knew there were going to be issues when they told me I had to light both ends of the baton before I could twirl it.” 2. “Does anyone have a really big truck that can haul something the size of a small elephant? Oh, and I […]
Note: This was a personal mea culpa to my friend Laura, who I done did wrong one day… Prosecuting Attorney Lowena Purvis cleared her throat rather demonstratively, an attention-getting device she had perfected while studying law at Beaver Valley Community College in Syracuse. This effort at guttural domination […]
I just wanted a quick something to eat, folks. That’s it. And here we go… 1. I was nearly killed, Part I. There I was, traveling along in my car, bellowing along with Adele as she set fire to the rain. (Isn’t it amazing how the lack […]
The occasion: A festive birthday party at a friend’s lovely home. The setting: The quaint back patio of said lovely home. The time: Several drinks into the night. The factuality: This actually happened, although I fudged a bit with things like the real names of the people […]
Note: Here’s another snippet from one of my books-in-progress. You may or may not recall (it really isn’t important) that at the end of the last snippet, Collin had just received a mysterious phone call from a whiny man who threatened to expose a dark secret about Collin […]
Me again, still doing the NaNoWriMo thing, an experience that is both titillating and frustrating. I’m hitting my daily word count quota, but I’ve had to be very creative in doing so. This means that I might be working on the most bizarre tale I’ve ever told. (Which […]
Howdy, folks. Just a quick note that NaNoWriMo is going well, meeting my daily quota and whatnot. (Of course, I have probably just jinxed myself by saying that and I will spend the next several days in a catatonic state, staring at my laptop, both my mind and […]
Editor’s Note: The following excerpt is from the project I’ve been working on during National Novel Writing Month (NoNoWriMo), wherein the participants try to amass a total of 50,000 words in a single month. The organizers of the contest suggest starting a brand new novel for the […]
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