Category: Writing
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An Almost World
What we could have been is lost forever,muted and mangled in unborn time.A darkness, the deepness of false memoryis all that remains of your potential smile.We will never taste of that August sky,shared in a strong and whipping wind,or walk together on that forgotten groundwhere bright minutes tremblingly thrill. What we could have been is…
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Black Mirror’s Bandersnatch is as Bad as Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone Reboot Will Be
The highly anticipated, recently released full-length interactive film from the makers of the provocative and disturbing British sci-fi television series Black Mirror, Bandersnatch, is a failure in many ways. It’s a confusingly, convolutedly, frustratingly, and unnecessarily complicated plot wrapped up in an innovative but disappointing format, where viewers have to make random and only occasionally…
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Who, if I cried out—
Greetings, Lanciverse! I’m Merrill Lee Girardeau, and I’m a writer. [Writers Anonymous, together: Hi, Merrill Lee.] Lance asked me to write about poetry for the site, and here I am. Psyched to be here and connect with y’all. These posts will document my attempts to stick to a writing regimen this year. The plan…
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15 Connecticut literary agents who are looking for new writers
As I’m finishing up my fifth novel, the time has come for me to search once more for literary agents and some of them are Connecticut literary agents. It seems kind of pointless for me to put in all of this work to find Connecticut literary agents and share it with no one. So I…
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15 Colorado literary agents looking for new writers
As I’m finishing up my fifth novel, the time has come for me to search once more for literary agents and some of them are Colorado literary agents. It seems kind of pointless for me to put in all of this work to find Colorado literary agents and share it with no one. So I…
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5 Arizona literary agents
As I’m finishing up my fifth novel, the time has come for me to search once more for literary agents and some of them are Arizona literary agents. It seems kind of pointless for me to put in all of this work to find Arizona literary agents and share it with no one. So I…
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Creative Disciplines : One Resolution for Artists
As I work with artists, innovators, and makers I find that creative disciplines are lacking both among this sector of society AND in the rest of society as well. Both creatives and non-creatives seem to think creative disciplines do not exist. Which is unfortunate because making a habit – a discipline – of creativity is…
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11 Philadelphia literary agents (and Pennsylvania too)
As I’m finishing up my fifth novel, the time has come for me to search once more for literary agents and some of them are Philadelphia literary agents Pennsylvania folk love and use often. It seems kind of pointless for me to put in all of this work to find Philadelphia literary agents Pennsylvania folk…
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66 literary agents California loves
As I’m finishing up my fifth novel, the time has come for me to search once more for literary agents and most of them are literary agents California folk love and use often. It seems kind of pointless for me to put in all of this work to find literary agents California folk prefer and…
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Creative Trust : why artists need a last will and testament
You’re a creative who doesn’t care about details like balancing a budget or keeping a calendar or writing a creative trust in your last will and testament. Except you do, deep down. You care about budgeting because you want to do this for a living for life and so you need to know how to…
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545 literary agents NYC folk use
As I’m finishing up my fifth novel, the time has come for me to search once more for literary agents and most of them are literary agents NYC folk love and use often. It seems kind of pointless for me to put in all of this work to find literary agents NYC folk prefer and…
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Elegy for a Carpenter – 62 @ 31
This elegy for a carpenter is the second tribute I’ll write for my grandpa this week before his funeral. It’s also going to kick off the 62 poems I’ll write at 31 before I turn 32. I tried my best to keep to the 18th century style of elegy, the longer dirge to celebrate a…