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30 second synopsis of my fiction

27-May-09

I’ve mentioned to some people that I’ve been writing some fiction. All my attempts at explaining the surface plot have sort of failed… there I am stammering like “well, I’m trying to express blah blah…” and “I’m trying to make you feel like blah blah”.
Well, you’ve waited long enough!
Here’s the 30 second synopsis of [...]

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Jazz me up… Guitar++

04-Mar-07

So, in the first serious attempt I’ve made to keep myself from playing WoW for a day, I dusted off my guitar and tried to see how much I remember.
My fingers hurt like hell, but it’s a good hurt. :) I stumbled through a few of the Pumpkins songs I know, some Third Eye [...]

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How to write business emails

17-Aug-06

I’d been telling people I worked with in the Writing Center that in a business environment, emails should be short, easy to reply to, and direct.
I thought I knew what that meant… I’m a good writer, confident in my ability to be professional and clear… direct and concise… I asked a client a question [...]

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structure of fiction

27-Apr-05

I’m really really interested in the structure of fiction. Not just something so basic as knowing the difference between a framed and an unframed story. I’m really into tracing where the author chooses to shift in time between “present” time and the time of the narrative itself.
I’m also really into how [...]

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Fun in Vancouver!

02-Apr-05

The panels are mostly amazing. The questions are mostly awesome too. I’ve only gone to one panel that was a pretty big dissapointment.
My favorite so far was the first one we went to about the short-short story, prose poetry, or “flash fiction”. Some writers read some of their work and then there [...]

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writing woo-hoos

10-May-03

It’s a rare and satisfying experience when you can simply switch two paragraphs and discover new meaning, new transitions, and a stronger piece of work altogether.
That’s when the piece writes itself. And makes me think I’ve perhaps got a muse.

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In class today…

23-May-02

I’ve decided one of my projects for the summer will be to write a short martial arts story. A good one. One of those Literary Gems, only with a martial arts theme.
My anal retentive, hyper stressed out fiction writing professor constantly bashes martial arts stories in his lectures. He puts them right [...]

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