Category: articles
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New Stories, Poems, and Menu (Downloads to Follow)
Hey gang, Added a few new stories and poems. I also nested the fantasy stories from my Gergia world under the stories tab. Soon to come : downloadable versions (.pdf; .mobi; .epub) of new stories and poems. But first I have to transfer everything to WordPress.org – that’ll take awhile, but hopefully by winter you can download singles for free.…
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For the Fear of Christian Art
:: long story short :: I have yet to meet somebody who, deep down, wanted to become something other than a good person. Or at least a good citizen. Though I’m directing this post at the Christians in the room, I think anyone will find it valuable if they swap out “Christian” for “good citizen”…
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Comics that Nourish
People keep tucking away all kinds of imagination-based encouragement into the nooks of the internet, you simply have to dig a bit to find it all. Thanks to Meghan for pointing this one out. Stephen McCrane over at Doodle Alley started drawing comics that nourish for people like you and me. He took the principles that helped him develop his…
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Paris Review Art of Fiction List
Nothing in the last two years has taught me more about storytelling, fiction, and great reading habits than the Art of Fiction series by The Paris Review. I read around two dozen of them before I decided to work systematically from number one until the end. You can just click here to jump ahead to the complete list of over 230 Art…
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New Stories and Poems
Hey all you vagabonds and wild people, quick note: I’ve updated the bibliography with some recent sales, added some new poems and a fairly old Gergian fantasy story about pirates. Hopefully I’ll have some of my new literary fiction to put up here soon. See some of you tonight at drDoctor. Carry on. Join this…
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The Secret to Breakthrough is the Community You Left
When an artist gets blocked, he finds breakthrough by returning to those creative limitations as sources of inspiration
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In Good Humor and Craft: The drDOCTOR readings
In my experience, I’ve found one of two problems in many literary crowds and clubs: they either take themselves too seriously or not seriously enough. The former never approach their craft with a healthy dose of self-depreciation and humor – let’s just be honest, creative writing is a strange thing to do in 21st-century America. The latter seldom try…
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What is markdown formatting?
As one final note – to encourage colorful comments, I have enabled Markdown formatting. Here is the cheat sheet, copied from WordPress support: Markdown quick reference trick Markdown code When processed Emphasis *Emphasize* _emphasize_ **Strong** __Strong__ Emphasize Strong Some WordPress.com themes may have different formatting for these styles Inline Links A [link](http://example.com “Title”). Most browsers show…
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Artists Thriving and Recovering Imagination
I’m busy helping people who have lost something magical and are desperate to find their way back: artists who have lost the art and non-artists who have tied their imaginations up with crappy plastic cuffs, shoved them into the basement of lost souls, and stuffed their ears to the whimpers.
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The Vagabond Librarian: a pledge
I wanted to create a bit of a bookend to that last season of blogging for those of you that have followed consistently. And honestly for my own closure, I needed a way to say a good goodbye to that particular season. I made a little pledge for us. I’m calling it The Vagabond Librarian pledge – it pretty much…
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Wheel Well with a Rope Inside
One Hour Ago: Driving up a tight curve on Murphy Blvd, which cuts across Joplin, I hear a thunk-thunk-thunk-thunk in my front right wheel well. Still driving, I glance out the widow and see something long catching the yellow light. Long like rope, and it’s stretching from front wheel to back window in its spin…
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Notes from Heschel: The Architecture of Time • from 54 poems at 27
Techno-civilization / breaks existence – time for space – / more objective(s), more to place. / Having more ain’t being more, / might of space still dies at time’s / borders. Existence beats its / heart not in spaces, but times.