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The New Easy-Writer Blog: A Writer Unraveled
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Thursday, April 22, 2010. Just a bit of Coldplay. For you this morning. Complete with lyrics tossed in. Earlier this week, I (along with many others) took him to task for assuming and writing from a point of view. Anyway, going through this and watching his general unraveling, I know how people felt when they watched Dylan Thomas drink himself to death. Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Search This Blog (writing, literature, books, health care, etc).
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The New Easy-Writer Blog: Book Review: Three Cups of Tea
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008. Book Review: Three Cups of Tea. I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands. And wrote my will across the sky in stars. To gain you Freedom, the seven-pillared worthy house. That your eyes might be shining for me. TE Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom. For those of us who fell into those words when T.E. Lawrence's sweeping account of the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turks, Three Cups of Tea. Should fill a void we've been missing. Like Lawrence, Greg Mortenson. Not on...
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The New Easy-Writer Blog: A better way to get around that nasty cloud
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010. A better way to get around that nasty cloud. It can be said that one can get anywhere in the world if they have money, time, or usually both. As for getting to Europe right now, I say a cruise. Would get around that nasty cloud just fine. Here in our corner of Scotland its been clear and sunny these past several days - no sign of any ash clouds. Well, except where all the smokers gather outside the pubs. Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment. I'm a writer, who is ...
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The New Easy-Writer Blog: On Writing and making films: Restrepo - One Platoon, One Year, One Valley
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010. On Writing and making films: Restrepo - One Platoon, One Year, One Valley. 8220;I don’t want to not. Have these memories, because they’re the moments that make me appreciate all that I have.”. From the documentary, Restrepo. Over on The Kitchen Dispatch, I'm running an interview with filmmakers Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington. Read the rest at:. Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Your site is art in action.". The Case Fo...
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The New Easy-Writer Blog: My Visit With Writer Chester Aaron
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007. My Visit With Writer Chester Aaron. I went to visit a favorite author of short stories in his idyllic solar house tucked away in the foothills of northern California. I listened to him talk about his life. He has packed a lot into his 85 years. He made us a garlic-jalapeño dip. Wonderful. You can google it. It won him prize. We saw the sun shine on his garlic beds, talked of wild turkeys and gophers. Just goes to show, a writer sees things and remembers. Vapid, greedy me, I cannot...
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The New Easy-Writer Blog: The Writing Path: An MFA might matter less than you think
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Thursday, April 22, 2010. The Writing Path: An MFA might matter less than you think. Today, I was reading an piece in AWP's The Writer's Chronicle about "theme" in writing. Written by Eileen Pollack, she's the Zell Director (as in Helen, wife of Sam, owner of the bankrupt Tribune Company, and has induced the LA Times in a near coma.talk about irony). Okay, I'm game for huge philosophical discussions. But if we're reducing theme to aboutness,. Or headed toward so whatness. By the end, if you keep your fai...
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The New Easy-Writer Blog: Good Night, Mr. Chandler. Well Done.
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006. Good Night, Mr. Chandler. Well Done. The news flashed over the internet: Otis Chandler, dead at seventy-eight. Former publisher of the Los Angeles Times, the man who helped fuel the newspaper, a surfer, big game hunter, traveler, race car driver, and who at age fifty-two, stepped off his platform to take on the rest of his life- was gone. Well, maybe not, but it does keep me from having to scramble for quarters. Good Night, Mr. Chandler. Well done. Photograph from the LA Times.
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The New Easy-Writer Blog: Power Point: An Oafish Bulleted World
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Power Point: An Oafish Bulleted World. At my daughter's school, technology now takes a firm foothold in the daily curriculum. By grade eight, all students are proficient in Word, Power Point and Excel. Unfortunately, under the sway of technology marketers, the school board has minimized former mainstays of the primary and middle school experience. Orchestra, chorus, art, photography and band are a glimmer. Is yet a pale imitation of what we once had. In The New York Times,. When ...
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