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Travel light
In the days when I did some backpacking in the Colorado mountains — where the air is much thinner than a flatlander such as myself is used to — a novice backpacking friend of mine spent da… more →
Lucky Rabbit's Foot
Travel light
paullamb wrote 1 day ago: In the days when I did some backpacking in the Colorado mountains — where the air is much thin … more →
Plugging along
paullamb wrote 6 days ago: I wish I had something interesting or astonishing to report here about my life in writing. The fact … more →
No name left unchanged
paullamb wrote 1 week ago: I don’t think there is now a single character in my novel-in-progress who still has his or her … more →
Chapter One is completed
paullamb wrote 1 week ago: Here I go again, giving a chapter-by-chapter account of my progress through yet another rewrite of m … more →
A report on the rewrite rewrite
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paullamb wrote 1 week ago: I’ve barely begun on the rewriting of my novel to have a third-person narrator and I already … more →
"Moron Saturday" on Friday
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paullamb wrote 2 weeks ago: The commedia issue of Danse Macabre (“the premier online literary magazine in Nevada”) i … more →
The rewrite is complete
paullamb wrote 2 weeks ago: I have done it. I have finished the final rewrite of my novel-in-progress, The Sleep of Reason. Now … more →
The rewrite still progresses
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paullamb wrote 3 weeks ago: I continue on my rewrite of The Sleep of Reason, taking far more time at this pass through than I ha … more →
Not on my schedule, but fine anyway
paullamb wrote 3 weeks ago: I’ve spoken here before about how I don’t understand the murky operations of my creative … more →
Making progress in Sleep
paullamb wrote 4 weeks ago: I am now nearly halfway through the final rewrite of my novel-in-progress, The Sleep of Reason. When … more →
Rebecca finds a home
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paullamb wrote 1 month ago: I just learned this evening that another short story of mine, “Rebecca finds her way,” h … more →
Where matters stand
paullamb wrote 1 month ago: I continue to make slow but careful progress on the current pass through of the draft of my novel Th … more →
Close reading
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paullamb wrote 1 month ago: I’ve given names to my characters in The Sleep of Reason with careful consideration. Their nam … more →
First rewrite pass is complete
paullamb wrote 1 month ago: I finally made it through the first pass at rewriting the woolly beast that is my novel-in-progress, … more →
First sentences
paullamb wrote 1 month ago: I’ve seen this meme a bit recently on the many, many, many writing blogs I visit, but they alw … more →
1st rewrite approaches the finish line
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paullamb wrote 1 month ago: Well, I’ve made it through all but the last two chapters of the first rewrite of my novel-in-p … more →
More releases to the wild
paullamb wrote 1 month ago: In the last week I have sent two of my short stories to publications that I think are suitable for t … more →
Something came to mind
paullamb wrote 2 months ago: I don’t know where all of these unbidden thoughts I have come from, and I don’t want to … more →
What was lost is now found
paullamb wrote 2 months ago: I thought I might have been losing my mind, but fear not, gentle reader, I have not. I’ve ment … more →
