Just For Fun Friday 03/28/2014
I have a ‘day job’ in the transportation industry. Just For Fun, I started this list recently… Trucking is a lot like Writing….. …you hope you get to your destination without any trouble. Sometimes it’s a long and winding road! …diversion is just part of the job. …there are a lot of unscheduled stops. …just […]
Only Seven Plots?
Have you, like me, always heard there are only 7 stories in literature? Here’s the list I was given a long time ago – and I don’t know where it originated: Love Money Power Revenge Survival Glory Self-Awareness Christopher Booker’s The Seven Basic Plots gives us 700 pages of detailed explanation of a different set […]
Rooting for the Bad Guy
Remember the days of the movie serial? When the good guys all wore white hats and were clean-shaven? The bad guys wore black and had rough faces? Suddenly the lines blurred. Batman wore dark colors and hid his face. So did The Shadow. And they were heroes, but sometimes worked outside the law. What happened? […]
Just For Fun Friday 03/07/2014
Alas, I strayed from my original intention of always having a reference to Lewis Carroll’s works in this blog. In truth, it was harder than I thought! But therein lies a challenge – and I’m always up for those. So here’s a bit of trivia….. Jabberwocky , from Through the Looking Glass, is a seemingly […]
In the Mood
During the winter months, I find myself channeling my bear relatives and hibernating. I stay in my cave, and watch old movies and write. A friend attributes it to SAD – Seasonal Affective Disorder – something about sunlight deprivation. Yeah, I’m feelin’ that. During those months, my poetry is sometimes pretty depressing. Getting out those feelings helps, […]
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