Where I work is at the waterpark. You know it. You’ve seen it from the highway. It ain’t much, but it pays the bills. Every three days I have to clean out the tumbleweeds from the kids’ pool. Every ten days I have to clean out some kids from the same pool. They come in …
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Recently Read: Ready Player One
It’s got some good plot points. It’s fun to read. It has a few moments where I thought, “Yeah! That’s cool!” There were moments too where I couldn’t see how the excessive writing made any necessary addition to the story. Filler, I guess. Do all books have that? Stuff that gets in there that has …
Sick Day
One aspect of writing is that you don’t have any excuses to take a day off. It’s not like being a carpenter. When you’re sick, you can still write. To claim a sick day as a writer, you’d have to go blind, AND lose your voice, AND lose the use of your hands in this …
Creative Juices
If you owned a business, what would you name it? A wood cabinet refurbisher called: Jack the Stripper? A museum called: Hands On Children Museum? A chimney sweeping business called: Ash Wipe? A book seller called: In The Margins? A record store called: Vinyl Resting Place? A gardening supply store called: The Dirty Hoe? There …
Real vs. Fantasy
Could it be that surreal art is more real than attempts at realism? I have a deep respect for any artist who can make a landscape, or a portrait, look like the original view, but the longer I live, the more it seems to me that surrealism is more accurate. For example, go inside any …
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