Month: February 2012
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Into the Wild
So I finally saw the movie Into the Wild last weekend. I’d read the book a while back, and was curious how they’d make a movie out of it, but not curious enough to actually go to the theater. (I also think it came out around the time we were in a mad rush to…
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Zen and the Art of Breathing Wrong
I guess I breathe wrong. I’ve known this for a while, but I think every shrink I’ve ever met has told me I need to breathe deeper or take a meditation class or something. This week, my breathing is worse because of a sinus infection, which I’m trying to bomb out with a high dose…
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Fieldstones and Moleskines
I know I said I don’t do new year resolutions, and I don’t. But one of the things I’ve been trying to do – it’s more of a course-correction for my post-40 memory loss – is writing down every damn thing that pops in my head, with hopes of later mining this stuff for story…
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Twenty years of e-publishing
I have been e-publishing for just a few days shy of twenty years. Not twenty months. Twenty years. Back in 1989, my friend Ray started a zine. We listened to a lot of obscure metal, thrash and death metal, and you could barely find Metallica tapes in northern Indiana back then, let alone underground music.…
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More Scrivener Tips
I switched to using Scrivener as my full-time writing tool last year, and still love it. I always had a lot of trouble coming up with a good way to seamlessly manage a bunch of little chunks of writing, and now I have a perfect way to do that. And it’s not trapped in a…