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Putting bread on the table
It’s easy to get carried away by high-falluting ideals about the arts, but the biological fact is that we all have to eat. The link below explores the inequalities of incomes, even among acknowledged, prize-winning writers, and how there are … Continue reading
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Away
My ancient and venerable computer has died and it is proving surprisingly hard to pick up my digital life from my even more ancient (but less venerable) iPad. Even tiny things like the blog password is proving an obstacle: I … Continue reading
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This blog’s subheading
In case you were wondering, this blog’s subheading is an extension of something Hemingway once said. According to him, “writing is easy; all you have to do is sit at your keyboard and bleed.” Well, no one can do your … Continue reading
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Our Policy on Spoilers
This is a site for writers, not for readers. Readers love to be immersed in a story, and they love the kick that comes at the end – the moment that pulls the whole meaning of the story together. Writers … Continue reading
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Greetings, Earthlings.
There’s a 1951 short story by Norman Mailer called “the Notebook”. A young writer – yes, an undisguised Mailer himself – is out with his “young lady”. She is trying to make him aware of the moment, of what she’s … Continue reading
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