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Earthly Powers (1980), Anthony Burgess One of the most famous opening sentences since Dickens, and my favorite counterexample when I...

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Double hyphen is nothing but a manuscript convention. Unless you self-publish, a double hyphen will get transformed to an em-dash in...

i had 2 fillings done 3 weeks ago. week 1, i was in so much pain. week 2, the pain had radiated to my front teeth and kept me up at...

Out in the Colorado Rockies, it took me most of a day to realize that the loud, insect-like chirring I kept hearing came from the same...

Getting Xenforo installed and mostly configured for the critique group I facilitate. It's our new meeting announcement and RSVP system...

Managing to schedule an MRI only five weeks out. Planning a hermit-like 2-night writing mini-retreat around it.

Mark Twain was skeptical that "simplified spelling" would ever catch on. His take on it was: "Ours is a mongrel language which started...

(Because I expect the rest of it to be equally predictable in voice and style.)

I just knew it couldn't be an organic coincidence that so many critique group pieces begin that way. The trouble with all these rules of...

Now reading Battle Cry by Leon Uris :)

Abide With Me, Elizabeth Strout. Also Biblioracle Substack: When Upmarket Fiction Doesn't Work

“There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how...

Hah, I have a series of stories with the same title, distinguished by colour.

I Am Curious (Blue) vs I Am Curious (Yellow)