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it's an old story

While going through some of my dad's boxes, I found one of my own. 
The box was mostly junk, but there was a hidden folder of old negatives from the days when I wanted to be a photographer, notes for scripts that I wanted to write for shows that no longer exist (remember Get A Life?), and some stories that will never see the light of day.

These are not hidden gems or diamonds in the rough. Luckily, most weren't anything serious, but writing assignments, completed. Rarely anything I would a...

I feel good being a number

because it's a low number, relatively.
I signed up for The Grid last year, and it can't come soon enough.



I got a message that I've been put on the short list to test things early, likely because I jumped on each and every survey they sent out pretty quickly.  
...and I'm so handsome.
It's scheduled to go live in late Spring, so I'm happy I won't have to wait as long. I'm feeling pretty good about this.

If you're looking to start a new site in the next few months, check out The Grid and becom...

Stop writing ebooks!

In the olden days, there were just books. Then came the pdf, and the ebook was born.

Publishers did not produce PDFs or ebooks, so only self-published writers wrote ebooks.

Today, there is the Kindle, the Nook, the Kobo, and a variety of other ebook reading devices and apps.

Ebooks are, today, as real a book as a physical book.

A book is the content. It's the words you write. ...and sometimes the design or  the experience. It's no longer just the 'thing' you are holding.

The best publishers a...

Pride and Prejudice and Webcams

I feel pretty late to the party, here, but I just found out about a fun webshow called The Lizzie Bennet Diaries.



I'm not really sure how an Emmy can go to a show that was broadcast online, since the Emmys go to television shows, but the show won a Prime Time Emmy in 2013 nevertheless.



The show is a modern take* on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, with Elizabeth Bennet as a young grad student, moving back home to her old room in her parents' house.

I've tried to read P&P before. Twice. Bor...

Heard in 3 coffee houses over the weekend...

‎...so I must post it. 
It's a favorite anyway. 
"You are my sweetest downfall"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62rfW...

The best paranormal tv is stupid

I love the idea of angsty paranormal tv better than the shows themselves
The netflix blurbs are promising; angst, love, loves lost, and plenty of paranormal action, but two or three episodes in, things always start to go stupid. I'll forgive the crappy special effects, but if they are so bad that you can't pull it off, write another script. Don't they give the writers an idea of what they've got in the CGI prop room?

Haven
I'm watching, but I have to push on through things like abandoned dogs tu...

Better

My favorite. Sorry.

If you make a promise

and no one's listening... 
As I've said before, my intention is, and has long been, to move things here to a new site, but the question is 'why?' ...and why haven't I?

The other question is why did I stop posting just because I haven't moved? Is there such a thing as "fresh start syndrome," and if so, do I have it?

This place, little dog lost...
...started off as a personal blog, morphed more toward fitness, and then got all but abandoned when I joined fitness forces with my wife over on Eat...

Confession

Father Martin slid the confessional screen open, revealing the dark shadow of a woman on the other side. As he sat back, the old priest smelled a spicy, oriental scented perfume. He tried not to be curious as he waited for her to begin.

"Forgive me Father, for I have sinned," she said. "It has been 200 years since my last confession."

Make some art

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