I hate it when they do that…
#72: “No, thank you,” Caweys told him before Del could reply.
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Writing
The essence of it.
#70: She had no idea how much — if anything — of what he had told her was true.
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Spoiler: He knows. Doesn’t care.
69: And she and Caweys both were outsiders here, regardless of what he may think.
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Probably better than she had, really.
#68: She wondered how he would have handled something like The Factory.
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Ramifications of Bad Decisions
#67: “It could have been, but you decided to turn it into a fight, instead.”
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Pitch Contest in a Bar
Last night I took part in a pitch contest in a bar in Eugene. There’s a new Bookpub opening up early next year called Eugene Hodgepodge. It’s both bar and bookstore (and hopefully will have coffee, too, but they haven’t said.) They hosted an event last night at another local brew pub called Arable. In
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Hearken back to those thrilling days of yesteryear…
#66: “After all, not you’re entirely wrong about BeltSec”
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The Return, Once Again, of the Sentence of the Day
That’s right! I am returning once again to posting the Sentence of the Day! For the next several months, I expect all the sentences to be chosen from somewhere within that day’s progress on Careless, the sequel to Thoughtless. If I’m going to have it out and ready by August of next year, I need
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First Page Feedback #3: Asylum Street
Once again, it’s First Page Feedback! Today, we have Asylum Street, a work in progress from Rolf Semprebon. The First Page Setting We learn from the very first line that we’re in Oregon in 1880. The next paragraph tells us more specifically East Portland. And what does East Portland, Oregon, look like in 1880? We
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