Monthly Archives: December 2005

REALITY: Perspective

This is just sort of sweet and funny and it slipped through my barrier against personal posting: My niece and her three children ages 3, 8 and 11 are living in Spain while her husband is stationed there.  When I … Continue reading Continue reading

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WRITING: Language Text

A thought occurred to me this morning regarding the simple act of writing down in text the different language or accent nuances to bring the voice and tone in line with the setting of a story.  That said, I hope … Continue reading Continue reading

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STORIES: Big Tim Dawson (continued)

UPDATE:  Actually, I think I’ll just link it here as I progress, that way it will be updated for anyone interested in following along. Forgive the typeface and the double-spacing; in this case I DID copy and paste from WinWord … Continue reading Continue reading

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WRITING: Plot

This is good.  I’m up at four a.m., but did catch a few hours’ sleep and am in a writing mood.  This afternoon I’d written some more on Big Tim Dawson (which I’ll post in a second) but more importantly, … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Ploughshares – The Lunatics’ Eclipse

Another good one in this same Fall 200 issue, by Randa Jarrar.  Qamar, a young girl who decides at nine she wants the moon for a neighbor boy who marries another before Qamar is fully grown.  She becomes a ballerina, … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Kafka and the Detective Novel

Good reading at The Reading Experience (always, but) in this post called Blind Alleys expanding on Steve Mitchelmore’s quote regarding Kafka’s sense of tying in narrative through motif, imagery and concepts, versus the clues cluttering the crime novel that point … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Aristotle’s Poetics

Took a peek at the reading list provided by the kind professor (who should have well been rid of me by now) and found the first item, Aristotle’s Poetics available online and checked it out. Scanning it briefly, I found … Continue reading Continue reading

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WRITING: Dream-Inspired

An excellent post at Joe Faust’s entitled All I Have to Do is Dream (page stubbornly insists that you want to download Firefox, but for IE users, just click continue to read in plain text) regarding the creativity employed to … Continue reading Continue reading

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WRITING: Big Tim and Alice

While I have not made much more progress on the pseudohypertext narratives that I’m planning for the Spring issue of otto, I have at least become involved in the last two stories (posted recently) that show promise. It has been … Continue reading Continue reading

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REALITY: Resume Writing

Today I have resume rewriting on the agenda, for both Jim and myself, as well as submitting them for application for employment other than our normally established career lines. For Jim, a bit different engineering than within the aerospace and … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Next Up

While I’m antsy to pick up another novel after finishing Atwood, I am a bit reluctant as I’ve noticed that I tend to focus on that exclusively and do not keep up with the plan to concurrently read five books … Continue reading Continue reading

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BLOGGING: Community

While I have not as yet figured out how to display the logo, I am happy to report that I have been accepted by the 9rules Network which opens up a whole new world of quality blogging to me, as … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Alias Grace – Finale

Finished Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace the other day, and have been attempting to plan this wrap-up post in some semblance of organization and importance. A brief synopsis of the ending:  While the hypnosis session by Dr. Dupont (Jeremiah the pedlar) … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Alias Grace – Tension

Naturally, with the deed done and the suspects either hanged or imprisoned at the start of the book, the burden of maintaining tension within the retelling of the story lies in the building up to the moment based on the … Continue reading Continue reading

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STORIES: Big Tim Dawson

There was a reality about him, an earthy prominence that made one want to reach out and lay a hand on his arm or pat a mountainous shoulder to ground one’s own self.  His wife took her dawn in his … Continue reading Continue reading

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