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Hi, thanks for dropping in. Great to see you! I use this blog as a writer’s notebook; you can see my work as it’s being written.
LATEST POSTS
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Novel outline. The Hoser.
Okay, this is a pretty grim storyline, but it’s necessary to make my point. Part One is “The Monster In the Cave.” I want to capture the horror that the ancients must have felt when they discovered what the ‘gods’ required of them – the twisted, sick requirements around human sacrifice and sexuality. This would
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How to Not Be a Jerk (to the wife you love)
When you and your wife are going through a rough season, here is a note to self, to help you avoid being a jerk.
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Novel outline. The monster in the cave.
Recently, I heard someone say that ancient people tried to control the gods, and in a few moments, I had the germ of a story for a novel, set in a post-apocalyptic agrarian society where tribes and settlements battle each other for supremacy. Part One Turner is in his twenties, but without proper employment. He
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What makes a “quick dip” in the ocean?
This morning I took myself for a quick dip. It felt like something I needed to do. But what constitutes a “quick dip”? I tracked my own thoughts and feelings as I went for the swim. This is what I found. I put my shirt keys and phone on some dry rocks near the ocean
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“Beliefs” are not shadowy ghosts.
But what is a “belief”? What form do they take? Nobody explained that bit. I had an idea that they were somehow like dreams, all shadowy and shifty, and they hung around at the bottom of the subconscious ocean like underwater ghosts.
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