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totally random thought regarding juliana hatfield

Posted in (not) writing, diversions, tagged , , , , , on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’m plowing my way through my final essays for the semester and for that I require music. I’m listening to Juliana Hatfiled’s Made In China and thinking how different it feels from In Exile Deo, which I was listening to last week at this time. And it hits me:
Juliana Hatfield is like femme Neil [...]

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in praise of the big dumb book

Posted in comments, diversions, genre vs. literature, observations, opinion, reading, review, tagged , , on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I finished a book today that I initially hated when I picked it up.  Review books, they’re hit or miss, with the ratio being ten-to-one in favor of the miss factor.  Some just don’t speak to me, some are atrocious, and others rub me the wrong way for whatever reason.  But there was this one [...]

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cutting v. gutting

Posted in VC, fiction, grad skool, process, the man behind the curtain, writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Problems.
I overnighted the workshop piece, the short story “erosion,” last Thursday morning with the promise of a 3 PM delivery on Friday. That’s what I paid for. So why didn’t it get one state over until Tuesday? Five frickin’ days for overnight delivery? I could have walked there in less time!
But [...]

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revosion

Posted in VC, YA, fiction, grad skool, process, the man behind the curtain, writing, tagged , , , , , , on May 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »

That’s a deliberate typo, in honor of my revision work on my short story “Erosion.” I could have gone with “erision” but that actually looked more like a real word. Or a brand name.
It looks like this is going to be my workshop piece for the next semester. I thought the first [...]

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how to curse

Posted in coinage, diversions, observations, opinion, translation, writing, tagged , , , , , , on May 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The weirdest things bother me. I suppose everyone has their pet peeves. Today, however, what chuffed me was landing on the following:
Xc%(*y$e(wy!!!!!!!!!!
That’s very interesting… but what does it mean? Were it not attached to a post discussing a common writing device as an obscenity, as a failure of ability — You [...]

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are YA reading levels really that flat?

Posted in YA, blogging, middle grade, reading, teen, tagged , , , on May 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Old news here for some, perhaps, but I just crawled out from under my recent school deadlines and have some catching up to do.  So this company, Renaissance Learning, put out this report called What Books Are Students Reading in Grades 1–12? It would stand to be a fairly useful report for educators, parents [...]

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