May 2011
4 posts
We Interrupt This Blog for a Public Service...
This is a PSA for backing up your computer files. We all know we should. Many of us don’t. Maybe we have great plans for it, get started at it, then fall away. I was in that last category back in January when my computer started coughing up blood, fell on its face, convulsed for a while, then got frightfully still. Flat line. I started looking at my backup discs and realized that they were...
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In for the Long Haul . . . Just Didn't Realize How...
I date my wanting-to-be-a-writer revelation to 1977 when I was in seventh grade. If memory serves (and it may not) that was the year I had a writing assignment on what I wanted to be. I wrote two papers, actually, one on being a veterinarian and one on being a writer. This was because, being a writer-type, I was already heavily neurotic and/or without esteem and just couldn’t bring myself to...
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Writing Every Day . . . Or Not, As the Case May Be
“Remember, a writer writes, always.” Wise words spoken by Larry, Billy Crystal’s character in Throw Momma from the Train, the most realistic movie about writing ever. Well, maybe not the part about Hitchcockian swapping of murders. But the shot of Larry sitting at the typewriter (remember them?) trying to write but being distracted, cleaning his typewriter, playing with Scotch...
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Osama bin Laden, Dead
What a night here in the Enemy Lines compound. Spent most of the weekend working on my latest article for Star Trek Magazine, finally sending it in to my editor, Paul “Oi, you!” Simpson, around 6 p.m. Sunday evening. “Finally my weekend can start,” I joked. After dinner, watching some TV with the family, and cleaning up the kitchen, I sat back down at the keyboard with a...
