Category Archives: Fiction

Jul
04
2006

Paradise - Chapter 5

Alrighty then.
I finished up the fifth chapter of my dystopian, post-nuclear, romantic, darkly comedic, dramatic psychological thriller of a book, also called Paradise. The chapter is… Kind of large. Let’s imagine, for the sake of argument, that it’s in the range of eight-thousand some words long. That’s purely a hypothetical estimate, of course, but if [...]

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May
29
2006

The Writing Process (For Me, Anyway)

I was actually asked a few times about the writing process in general. I make absolutely no claim that anything I do in terms of writing this book is “correct,” or even any semblance of “right,” but this is just my personal process. I know my friend, who is probably a far more serious writer [...]

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May
28
2006

Paradise Chapter 4

Well, I actually followed through with my own mandate to myself today and finished up the fourth chapter of my beloved Paradise today. I probably started at about 2:00pm and by 5:30pm I had written a solid seven pages of content and brought the lengthy chapter to a close at about fourteen pages (with 1.5 [...]

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May
28
2006

How To Save A Life

I’m beginning to realize that Michigan’s seemingly-schizophrenic weather patterns actually do follow some kind of predictable logic. Not in when things occur, of course, but there are definite “seasons” that begin and end, honestly, whenever the Elder Michiganians Up High designate that the season in question starts and terminates. For instance, summer is just now [...]

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May
16
2006

Paradise - Chapter 3

Since I got the majority of my work done for my fulltime job of a summer class that they call Intensive Second-Year Spanish, I figured I’d pretty much just go ahead and enjoy the day fully. And oh, let me tell you, it’s been an enjoyable day. Between EG and I going to a hole-in-the-wall [...]

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