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Think Dream Play: September 2014
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Saturday, September 13, 2014. It’s all happening at the zoo. I met Raymond J. Johnson, Jr. (not his real name) only last November. At first, our relationship was appropriate. Platonic. But before long, innocently, at least on my part, one thing led to another, and yadda yadda yadda. Now, he behaves toward me like a neurotic, possessive, controlling boyfriend. Don’t tell my husband. JJ, as he likes to be called, has to know everything I’m doing – where I’m going, when I’ll be back. He’s very adept. I know...
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Think Dream Play: February 2015
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Saturday, February 28, 2015. Music soothes the old brain. Recently, I found myself in a room with a saxophone. Apparently, I arrived in the midst one of those “common but mysterious short-term memory failures, [where] people find themselves in a room, without remembering why they ended up there.”. So, there I was, a little bit breathless, and pondering: Moments ago I was there, but now I am here. With a saxophone. Why am I here? This is not an existential question. I know. Why I am here. In the mind, whi...
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Think Dream Play: November 2014
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Friday, November 28, 2014. Thankful for the small things. A lone pelican works our cove, swooping with his huge beak pointed downward, keen eyes following fingerlings below the surface of the water. He spots a fat one and forming a dagger with his body, he plunges, then bobs to the surface, tilts his enormous beak upward and lets his holiday hors d’oeurvre slip down his throat. Leaves on the gingko tree in their yard fan out yellow now. And behind it, what is that tree? He’ll be with us another yea...
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Think Dream Play: Who's sitting next to you?
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Friday, July 31, 2015. Who's sitting next to you? I spent the middle of the day at Big O with a big man I’ll call Big Bill. He called himself Big Something Else, but maybe I shouldn’t say. It was not how I planned to spend my day. But the right front tire on Mr. Plath’s truck heaved a slow, surreptitious sigh overnight and relaxed into a rubber puddle. When he dashed out to catch up with his buddy at the BART station for a 12:45 first pitch at AT&T Park. That tire was flat. On the way to the station, Mr&...
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Dream Writer: You don't have time for a muse
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013. You don't have time for a muse. We writers are an eccentric lot. We love our quirks and idiosyncrasies. Civilians – “non-writers” – find us mysterious and we love that. There are few things with greater cache than mystery. Mystery allows us to create a sacred space that is untouchable. Our loved ones respect it, even tiptoe around it. The downside of all the enigma is that we abuse it. We are masters at minimizing when prying eyes come near…What? Well that just won’t do. Chance...
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Dream Writer: March 2012
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Saturday, March 10, 2012. Quit Before You Get Ahead. Have you ever stopped writing when you were on a roll? Those are the best times, right? When you're in the groove.well, keep groovin'. Stay there. Ride it out. That's probably what most of us do, and there are many reasons why we do it. But there is a school of writing thought that suggests you deliberately stop, even mid-sentence, just a bit sooner than you normally would. Pack that into your toolbag of block breakers, and Write, Dream Writers! Nevert...
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Dream Writer: November 2012
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012. Climb down from there and WRITE! If you're a writer, there's no question about it. The true question, perhaps too often asked, is not, "Am I a writer? But "Why don't I write? Only a writer asks that question! If you're asking it, you're a writer. But, but, but, you say. How can I claim to be a writer when I'm stalled? I haven’t written anything. In (fill in the blank – days, months, eons). Cue the shrieking from. And here's how you can tell:. The nicer word is 'words.'.
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Dream Writer: January 2014
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014. Said, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”. Ernest Hemingway, father of Writer’s Melodrama! He gave us all some anguish to latch onto, right? Nobody knows the trouble we’ve seen! Hemingway inspired me when I was in 7. Grade and first read his short story “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.” That one stuck with me as a prototype for exterior action revealing interior life. How hard can that be? Put on your analyst’s cap ...
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Dream Writer: June 2016
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Tuesday, June 7, 2016. Reblog from Lit World Inteviews - Why Readers Stop Reading a Book. WHY READERS STOP READING A BOOK. JUNE 3, 2016. Recently, we here at LitWorldInterviews.com. Conducted a survey,. 8220;Why do you put a book down? And through the assistance of the writing community we had a very nice response. Now it’s time to share what we found. For the rest of this most interesting read, go to:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Read me also at:.
