Tag: writing
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My new book, Fistful of Pizza, is available now
I am happy to announce that my new book, Fistful of Pizza, is now available at the following places: On the Kindle for only 99 cents here. In print at Lulu.com for $8.74 here. In print at Amazon.com for $12.99 here. Here’s the answers to some questions about this: What is it? Fistful of Pizza is…
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The Agony of Defeat
I’m so depressed about the baseball season right now. The Rockies have catastrophically failed in almost every aspect, and I don’t foresee it getting much better any time soon. And if they had a bad start, and continued a slump through May, that would be one thing. But they were leading the division — they…
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So two comedians walk into a bar
I wish I was a stand-up comedian. I have trouble saying that, because I feel like the many or most people would reply with “you’re not funny.” And I’ve probably spent a lifetime trying to make other people laugh, and maybe I have, but the only thing that sticks in my mind are the too-serious…
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Nano 10, and a fleeting attempt at procrastination
I am participating in NaNoWriMo 2010. I just decided this, and I have the vaguest of ideas for a book, and I really need to flesh out an outline, but I’m having trouble getting the thoughts into an outline this second, and I’m glad my copy of Call of Duty is not in the house,…
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Desks, a viewport into the mind
As a writer, I spend a lot of time at desks. And I have some strange obsession with the workspaces of writers, which is why I always seem to be snapping pictures of my desks. And every time I go back and look at it, I can tell the era and the project and the…
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The notebook
In a perfect world, I’d have the One True iPhone app that would somehow take any of my stray ideas and easily catalog them in one place, that would let me collect all of these random thoughts and later develop them into sketches that got inserted into stories. That app would have to use something…
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Marathon
It’s been a while. I’ve been busy working on this NaNoWriMo book writing marathon. It’s day 15, and I should be at 25,000 words, and I’m just shy of 32,000 words, which is good news. The bad news is I took yesterday off, I barely picked at things today after sleeping in, and I go…
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NaNoWriMo, day one
So there’s this thing called National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. It’s a contest of sorts, where writers have one month to write a 50,000 word novel. There are no prizes or judges, and there’s no real anything except motivation to throw together a book as fast as possible. This isn’t anything new; I tried…
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A roundabout appearance in the Times
My writing pal Michael Stutz out in Ohio had a brief appearance in the New York Times a couple of weeks ago. What makes it interesting is he’s describing some of our late night phone calls back when I lived in the warzone of Astoria. Check it out: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/nyregion/14diary.html?_r=1
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Automatic writing
I haven’t been writing in a while. I still feel like my last great writing project was Rumored to Exist, which shipped in 2002. Everything since then has been a greatest hits or a remix or a collection or something that I started and then watched die on the vine. I’ve managed to get a…