Archive for June, 2007
Seconds
Over the years, I’ve written lots of things — plays, poems, stories — some of them quite long. A few are fairly well written.
Finishing them felt good, felt like something had been done.
Not like this, though.
As of a few minutes ago, the Second Draft of my first novel is finished, clocking in at just under [...]
“Oh! I am waking up!”
There are probably better ways to spend a Saturday morning than with a cup of tea and the Little Nemo in Slumberland anthology I got for my birthday last week . . . but I can’t think of them right now.
St. Clairesville
Too busy working on the Third Draft to post anything of length or intelligence, but here’s a picture of my wife wandering through an Ohio graveyard last week.
(She was having a much better time than the photo seems to suggest. Honest.)
Ocean’s Whatever
I’ve actually had that conversation with him, just saying “Look, I’ll give you whatever support you need—including staying completely away from you.” Actors have done a lot of damage to candidates lately. My father ran for Congress in 2004, and it was “Hollywood vs. the Heartland!” My father was Hollywood. – George Clooney
Great, great, great [...]
