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Rewrite or don't rewrite?
I usually rework drastically whatever i write. Stories i reduce to 2/3 their first-draft wordage; poems i hack, bully and warp into a form completely different from what i started with. Words sidle to… more →
The Travel Hopefully Slog
Half a hundred thousand
mand wrote 3 weeks ago: It’s stop-start, but it’s not all stop. Three hundred and twenty-five words this morning … more →
No, you are not required to do anything.
weinberg wrote 3 weeks ago: That’s a line from a recent online chat with a Bank of America representative, assuring me tha … more →
It's all happening (again) - yay!
mand wrote 1 month ago: In the last just-over-a-week i, tubigripped, dressing-gowned and mixedpollened, have done 17 handwri … more →
Memory Block
katrohr wrote 1 month ago: I have been having memory problems, and I can’t remember why. I can usually recall personal relatio … more →
GUD magazine
mand wrote 1 month ago: Submitted five poems and a 285-word story to GUD, a magazine i’m liking a lot. I recently read … more →
Four measly hundred
mand wrote 3 months ago: Yesterday i put in a few hours of solid work on a (writing) thing i owe someone, and couldn’t … more →
hoist ourselves atop the oblongs
weinberg wrote 3 months ago: I just got totally Gmail-ad-snatched by this blurb: “Isn’t it time you started reading T … more →
Something's shifting
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mand wrote 3 months ago: It didn’t feel like block. That’s not the name that came to mind. It doesn’t feel … more →
Say What You Mean!
Shweta wrote 3 months ago: Your Welcome-You owe me We can do what you want to do-Notice how selfless I’m being so if we d … more →
sputter sputter
weinberg wrote 3 months ago: Today, during yoga, the Random Rhyme Generator turns on again, and hands this over: “marzipan- … more →
I once read it's common to clog up around 30,000 words.
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mand wrote 3 months ago: [Wrote this three days ago, and somehow managed to save it as a draft only. So here it is - not out … more →
There Are Different Names For The Same Thing
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Shweta wrote 4 months ago: Death Cab says it like it is. Here are different names for the same thing. Confident-Cocky Yellow- … more →
Made it to Chapter Six!
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mand wrote 4 months ago: Heading towards 39,000 words. Which is nice, as it’s a bit like being nearly at 40,000. My han … more →
Scary
mand wrote 4 months ago: Marvin has asked me why it scares me submitting work to The New Yorker. I can’t explain. But l … more →
Submitted something
mand wrote 4 months ago: Sounds a sensible plan to aim high – submit everywhere starting with the top, meaning most pre … more →
these porno names will never exist
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Shweta wrote 5 months ago: I Reluctantly post for you the names of pornos that will never exist, and google as you might, you w … more →
A turn in the path, dull though it is
mand wrote 5 months ago: The 500 plus 1,500 i thought i’d scribbled turned out to be a total of about 1,400 when typed … more →
It's getting exciting again
mand wrote 5 months ago: Been putting off the confession that not much has been scribbled. Then yesterday i got back in harne … more →
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