I am so fucking ready for this book to be DONE. And I have 6,000 of the last 20,000 words in hand…. … in scribbled notes and loose scenes and last night I wrote a really icky drug withdrawal torture scene, and this after I thought I was done writing icky scenes. I’m thinking that […]
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Gone are the days of the $14.99 haircut. I started spending a fortune on my hair after 1) going to Supercuts for the 3rd time in three weeks trying to get them to fix the mullet they’d given me 2) getting dumped – for the second time – by the guy I was dating here
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I’m working on line edits this morning, and while paging through the typical “take out the ‘and’ insert a period” types of edits (I have a lot of winding, comma heavy sentences that must get truncated during revisions. This should not surprise anyone who reads this blog, or anybody who’s seen first drafts of my
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I’m sitting here on my porch on a hot summer night with a beer, watching the fireflies and listening to some good music. Man, it doesn’t get much better. Saw The Wanted tonight. Blood and gun battles in Chicago (in my old neighborhood! He snipes from one of the houses right next to the Wrigley
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Coworker: “I know I look old, but would you believe I’m going to be 30 in a week?” Me: “Holy crap, you’re only a little more than a year older than me? I thought you were ancient, like the DB guy.” Coworker: “Great, thanks.” Me: “Know what I’m doing for my 30th birthday? Coworker: ?
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I’ve come home and written original stuff every night this week. I’m reading books again. I started re-hashing my comic book ideas. My insatiable, nauseating appetite has subsided, as has my compulsion to go to bed before 9pm. I found myself dancing around my apartment tonight for no reason. The turning point was last week,
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“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”– Ernest Hemingway