• Thinking about process, again

    Thinking a bit about my writing process today. I think a bit about process everyday, I try not to, since it is a black hole of continuous self-reflection. I know there are lives to be made out of helping people with process and I don’t begrudge them that. But, that is not what I wish my…

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  • Flying

    Flying, good. Flying down the back stairs to land in a crumpled heap at the first landing, not so much. Good to know I still have it. 34° Clear 47 Hilton St, Arlington, Massachusetts, United States -luke

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  • two-thousand and thirteen

    So, Typie is back up and running, all he needed was a new typewriter ribbon. And he now has a little brother, pictured above is my new Hermes Rocket. A tiny little typewriter with a pretty good pedigree, you can find tons of pictures of them with famous authors and newspaper people, though I take it…

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  • Hermes is down

    So my new (old) typewriter is down, ribbon broke. I am actually pretty sad about this, because I have really come to enjoy the process of writing on the beast. I usually write directly into the computer or into notebooks. When writing on the computer things like spell check, the internet, games, compiling some program…

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  • Futzing with my website

    Rather than do something useful, I have yet again decided to futz with my website. Though it was sort of needed. An I have to say I am quite impressed with the website debugging/developing tools in Google Chrome. The Chrome Developer Tools allow you to look at every element on a web page, all of…

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  • Story Number 4

    I am taking a course right now that is called: “10 Stories in 10 Weeks.” Surprisingly, the goal of the class is to write 10 stories and have 9 of them critiqued in 10 weeks of class. So, here is my current story for this week. A sweet little tale I have decided to call:…

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  • Write Now

    I am always deeply dissatisfied with my life, and I am OK with this. It gets me out of bed in the morning. I would find it hard to get myself going if everything was perfect. There would be nothing to do. Jack:  You’re quite perfect, Miss Fairfax. Gwendolen: Oh! I hope I am not that. …

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  • Entry for Terrible Minds Random Words Writing Challenge

    My entry for the Terrible Minds Random Word Writing Challenge this week. My first entry to one of these. The two characters are from a novel I am working on, and this was a nice chance to play with them. And, so they don’t distract too much, I put the words after the story not before.…

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  • Weapons of Choice 2012

    Software Scrivener(http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php): For actual writing, manipulation, etc. It is an IDE for writers, for all you dorks out there. For you non-dorks, it lets you write you work in logical chunks and then manipulate it into shape before rendering it to a manuscript. Basically, it gives you all the normal tools (spell checker, grammar checker,…

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