Category: Random
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The Mythos of the NYTBS
Everyone wants to be on this list. EVERYONE. If you’re writing something or have published and you say you don’t care about the New York Times Best Seller List or Wall Street Journal Bestseller List or even the USA Today Best Seller List, you are a liar. This being said, I understand why I lie…
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Villain Reluctance
I wonder if I’m avoiding my manuscript because of my anti-hero. He’s a racist asshole. But he’s also necessary to the plot. As is his downfall. Which the way I have planned will work out as: Reader: “Damn. You are a racist son of a bitch! Why hasn’t someone ganked you yet?” Reads a few…
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40
I’m newly 40. I think the culturally accepted response for Western women when confronted by this number is to freak out. But I don’t feel this way, truth be told. The thing is, I look around at everyone else (Don’t you roll your eyes and sigh at me, young man! You do it, too!), like…
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New Year, New Plans
The second post of the year and we’re already to Insecure Writer’s Support Group Day. Oy. Like the peer pressure to make resolutions isn’t hard enough, now I have to be introspective and all that before I’m 40? Dang. Hmmmm… bloggy subjects… *sounds of flipping paper* Ah, no. That’s a little too heavy this early…
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A new year, a new list
Of course everyone has their resolution list. Do this, stop doing that, be better, go here, save there, etcetera ad nauseum. So I thought I’d let you in on mine. BWAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!! Ohhhh… ouch. Ohhh, I think I pulled something… I’ve got to stop telling jokes like that. I’ll give myself a hernia if…
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A Friday Funny
Not terribly original, but I did write it a few years back. With the holidays coming, I thought we all could use a laugh. The 2000th Annual International Nirvana Achievement Competition It was an exciting day today at the Shamshara Insight Convention Center, hosting the 2000th Annual International Nirvana Achievement Competition, with competitors from all…
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