Category: Personal
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A question
I’ve been thinking a lot about blogs and online journals recently. To be honest, not in any consideration of what I’m doing with my own so much as just being very interested in them as a form or mode. I’m interested in knowing what other people think about them. What are they for? What are…
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Back to the grindstone
As Ferris Bueller once said, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” True, Ferris, true, though if you stop and look around for too long, you can also get behind on pretty much everything you need to be doing in order to pay bills…
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Writing thoughts and questions
Do you have any thoughts on why writers can’t tell if their own writing is any good or not? I mean, I think there are probably some writers who do know (or believe) that their writing is good, and there are probably some writers who do know (or believe without any trouble) that their writing…
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I Will Shout Youngstown
I have been officially interviewed at the “I Will Shout Youngstown” blog. If you haven’t checked out that weblog before, do take a look. Tons of really interesting entries there about Youngstown and issues related to community revitalization, a subject many American cities are faced with at the moment. I talk mostly about Youngstown in…
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Today
It’s still so beautiful outside, even if it’s late in the night. My windows are up, the rooms are breathing with fresh air. I love the sound of the traffic crossing my apartment building, both the vehicles and the human traffic, the cars speeding by, the human voices. Today I heard the most lovely voice…
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Challenge
In an e-mail I just wrote to a friend, I describe a story/project thing that I’m working on at the moment, and how it’s challenging me in all sorts of different ways on how I need to structure its narrative and form. At the end of my description of this somewhat multi-media story I’m creating,…
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Ytown on Stage
Last night at the Stage was just the most wonderful experience. There were so many people there, so much talent and creativity and expression, and so much of it just really really good. My friend Brooke does the most amazing things for this city and I sometimes wonder if enough people actually understand it. I…
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Infamous people from Youngstown
The title of this entry is also the terms someone typed into a search engine today, which led them to stumble into my journal here. I almost choked laughing, then typed the terms into Google myself and not only was my website here a results entry, it was the first one. I suppose this is one…
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Book cover
I’ve had a version of One for Sorrow’s cover up on the page I made for the book for a while now, but today my editor sent me the final version and I’m really really happy with it. If you’re curious take a look at the One for Sorrow page and click on the cover…
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More good news
I found out yesterday my story, “In Between Dreams”, will be included in the Solaris Book of New Fantasy, which will appear in December 2007. It’s another of the stories I wrote while in Japan. It seems more of those will soon be appearing. I’m beginning to get excited for others to read them. I’ve…