Men have breaking points. Stick them in a cubicle and harangue the fuck out of them, take away all their opportunities to express their aggression, ring them in with a masterful cage of passive-aggressive bullshit, and repeat ad nauseum for forty fucking years… Well, you get the idea. Which is why I’m planning my escape […]
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Beloved stage and screen actor, geriatric bank robber, and Norman Mailer hammerer Rip Torn passed away on Tuesday, after a long battle with genteel society. He was 88. There have been many wonderful Torn performances down through the years, from his Tony-nominated early role as a sadistic young ne’er-do-well in Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of…
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Odds are you guessed this terribly, terribly wrong. And if you guessed “Luck be in the air tonight” maybe this blog post won’t help you much anyways… Blogging using some cuss words has become quite trendy among some incredibly popular bloggers and social media users, but I’m wondering if it’s really worth it? Or beneficial? […]
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Follow the above link to read my interview with Books Charming, who reviewed my poetry collection, “Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night…”
Book Review – No Sea, No Land (French title : Ni Terre, Ni Mer) by Olivier Megaton, Nicola Genzianella and Sylvain Ricard
https://vishytheknight.wordpress.com/2019/07/05/book-review-no-sea-no-land-french-title-ni-terre-ni-mer-by-olivier-megaton-nicola-genzianella-and-sylvain-ricard/
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Theatersommer Haag: Premiere für „Maß für Maß“
The Summer Promote Your Book Party!
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The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse ★★★★★ #BookReview #BookBlog
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Fantasy Book Review: John Gardner’s Grendel — Interesting Literature
https://philslattery.wordpress.com/2019/07/05/fantasy-book-review-john-gardners-grendel-interesting-literature/
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I am at Olive Garden now, having a basic lunch of soup and bread and working on “Shadows and Stars Lying Down”.
I tried to write for eight hours yesterday, but ended up writing for about four, maybe less. I took a break and watched YouTube for awhile, but couldn’t get another good zone going. I intended to write for eight today, but had too much iced tea last night and couldn’t fall asleep until 4:00. Ergo, I was dragging this morning when the alarm went off at 7:30. I finally shut off my snooze alarms and laid in bed until around 10:00. I have a few things to do today, but I hope to get a good amount of writing done.
I would like to be as disciplined a writer as Thomas Mann, who wrote for eight hours/day as if he were working a regular job. That may be the only way to achieve my goals. I am giving it a shot.
I am progressing, however. “Shadows and Stars…” now has over 63,000 words. I am shooting for between 80,000-100,000. I hope to have the first draft completed soon. Wish me luck.
Hemingway was right. A novel is a completely different animal than a short story.
Laura Drake “Where do you get your ideas?” Every writer has been asked this at least a dozen times. In fact, famous authors have come up with outrageous answers, so they don’t have to go into it. Think I’m kidding? “From the Idea-of-the-Month Club.” – Neil Gaiman “The Idea Book.… Read the post
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Chaos – a noun: complete disorder and confusion. Conflict – a verb: be incompatible or at variance; clash Two words. One a noun, the other used as a verb. Both connotate similar emotions. The universe was created of chaos. Human beings can’t seem to live for any extended periods without being in some state of […]
Stimulating ideas for your writing is akin to magic. You sit your butt in a chair and fix your eyes on a computer screen or a piece of paper and the ideas start coming.
POEM “BROKENHEARTED BLUES” by martin gedge Sitting on this bar stool where all the sorrows go drinking to forget just to let the sadness flow walking are the wounded with their battle scars to show searching for the underlying clues of how they got to bottom drop each bottle brought despair there’s a […]
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Phil Slattery, Writer, Publisher 