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Unicorn Ramblings 2021-05-12 17:39:00
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need by Blake SnyderMy rating: 2 of 5 starsSo … I feel as if I should preface this by stating I’m not really the audience for this book. I am a novelist, not a screenwriter, but I’ve hear…
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GoodReads Review: The Spirit Ring — Lois McMaster Bujold
The Spirit Ring by Lois McMaster BujoldMy rating: 4 of 5 starsSet in a small Italian town in the Renaissance era (there are references to Lorenzo de Medici, so let’s call it late 1400s), but a version where magic and metallurgy run together, The Spirit…
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When Your Children Turn On You
Heartbreak … it’s inevitable in this life. Muse: Unless you’re a pyschopath. Are you implying something? Muse (whistling innocently): No, not all. When I think about heartbreak, I think about disappointment, but magnified. Most folks have experienced it at some point, whether it’s the job you didn’t get, the prize you didn’t win, or that…
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The Importance of Connotation
Words only hold meaning in context. Speak any word in a place where no one else understands that language and it holds no meaning. That is true for the denotation (a word’s literal or most common meaning) as well as for connotation (whatever else it signifies along with its denotation). English is such a rich…
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Poem sold to Star*Line!
My poem “The Pelagic Colossus” has just sold to Star*Line. That’s a nice bit of news to get during National Poetry Month. Look for it in one of the next two issues.
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What Does Orange Juice Have To Do With Literature?
Seven or eight year old Jens woke up somewhat earlier than usual that morning. His parents and brother were still asleep so he trundled into the dining room and found his grandfather eating breakfast. Likely his second breakfast, considering it was after 7AM. Jens plunked himself at the oblong table and filled his bowl with…
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