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A Poem About Sorrow

I wrote THIS POEM when I heard about a tragic experience an acquaintence was going through. The story is not mine to tell, so I won’t go into the details here. But I will say that I was very moved … Continue reading

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GLAWS Agent Roundtable event

Yesterday, the GLAWS Special Speaker Event was a panel of literary agents talking about their side of the business, what they look for, how they go about placing books with publishers. The discussion included the changes that e-publishing and the … Continue reading

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A New Poem Added to the Website

I just uploaded a new poem to my Gallery. You can find it here. I wrote this poem when I was still an undergraduate. A campus ministry hosted a retreat for college students one autumn weekend, and I took part. … Continue reading

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Talking about Green Lantern

I’ve been in a lot of discussions in the last month or so about the Green Lantern feature film that was released this summer. And since I’m one of those people who sits in the crossroads of comics and movies, … Continue reading

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The Creature Oversees Script Revisions

The Creature was very happy when I finished script revisions the other day. “About time,” he said. He is such a nag!

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“New” Paper Uploaded to Website

I have just added a “new” paper to the ScribblerWorks website, one I gave at Mythcon 28 in 1997. “The People of the Lie in the City: Spiritual Development in All Hallow’s Eve” uses a descriptive methodology found in the … Continue reading

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The ScHoFan Critique Group

For the last 2 years, I’ve taken part in a science fiction/horror/fantasy critique group as part of GLAWS. We’ve met pretty consistantly, once a month, usually at the Venice library on a Saturday afternoon. This month, however, because of various … Continue reading

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The Pastel Blasphemy

I was working on a script earlier today and needed to take a break from it. This is a second major rewrite of a concept, and it’s a challenge to make plot changes, to tweak the characters, and still retain … Continue reading

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The Creative Taskmaster Lost Patience

The Creature took a nose-dive (face-dive? he doesn’t have a nose) off the hutch shelf of my desk last night. I guess he didn’t think I really needed that sixth game of Spider Solitaire. As he points out here, I … Continue reading

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In Praise of Friends – Chuck Dixon

Sometimes you run across a writer who consistently entertains you, so much so that you are finally moved to write a letter of appreciation to that person. That’s what happened to me in reading Chuck Dixon’s work in comics. Chuck … Continue reading

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