If your motto is “If at first you don’t succeed” — don’t take up skydiving.
In honor of the man who recently survived a bad jump:
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=157&sid=24418296
Monthly Archives: March 2013
Monday morning writing joke: “Jump!”
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Eleanor and Rose, and “The Case of the Fleaing Colors,” part 8
Part 8: The chase begins.
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Mental Reps
In sports when an injured player can’t practice, he can still get “mental reps,” the coach says.
For a writer, that would be called day dreaming.
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Silly Saturday: spur of the moment haiku: “first rule”
I broke my first rule /
when I tweeted you. That first /
step is the big one.
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Eleanor and Rose and “The Case of the Fleaing Colors,” part 7
Part 7: The Chief weighs in.
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Haiku to you Thursday: “Brook”
Brook sings to the sky /
a billion droplets ring out /
its mouth never closed.
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Writing tip Wednesday: What lies at hand
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
—Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle, philosopher, satirist, essayist. 1795 – 1881
While not aimed at writers exactly, this quote is germane to the writing process. The end of a story, novel, essay, or poem may seem something dim and in the distance, and while we have to be mindful of it, we need to focus clearly on next words before us and how they fit and carry forward our thoughts, ideas, and emotions, how they advance the story at hand as it lies clearly before us on the page.
For example, writing three pages a day, you can have the entire draft of a 547 page novel written in six months. If you take off weekends off, that is still approximately 328 pages, double-spaced. Not a long novel, but certainly a respectable amount.
Granted, that doesn’t take in all the preparation work you have to do beforehand or along the way. Or the rewriting afterwards. But it is a way of thinking of a long piece of writing as manageable steps and helping you to see more clearly what lies at hand, or at the edge of your fingertips and imagination.
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Eleanor and Rose, and “The Case of the Fleaing Colors,” part 6
Part 6: Anticipation
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Monday morning writing joke: “The error of her ways.”
There was once a young woman who, in her youth, professed her desire to become a great writer.
When asked to define “Great” she said, “I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, howl in pain and anger!”
She now works for Microsoft, writing error messages.
She’s well read, if not completely understood.
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Booker's Blog 
Life is like a box of … politicians
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2013/mar/13/wine-in-grocery-stores-bill-dies-by-1-vote-in/?partner=popular
Wine-in-grocery-stores bill dies by 1 vote in House committee
Why is it in my state, Tennessee, I can walk into a Super Wal-Mart and buy a rack of lamb and a box of bullets, but I can’t go in a buy a rack of lamb and box of wine?
Tennessee State flag
Somehow, according to the fine, upstanding, bought and paid for, public servants in Nashville, it’s my God-given right if I want to buy something to potentially blow somebody else away, but heaven forbid if I want to buy something in a Super Wal-Mart, or even a “regular” grocery story, that might be used to “blow” myself away for a little while.
This in a state with a super-Republican majority in both the state House and Senate. This in the face of the Republican manta of less government. This in the thrall of hypocrisy about competition being the life blood of a “free market.”
It’s only less government if you buy it.
It’s only less government for you if you can make somebody else pay with a little less choice.
It’s only less government if you are the one defining it as so.
It’s only a box of … GOP politicians.
Yep, less government. Just big enough to fit in your bedroom.
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