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Form v Content

Posted in Culture, tagged , , , , , , on 30 Nov 2012| 6 Comments »

Simple LivingThe holiday season always brings out my Inner Curmudgeon.

I won’t bore you with a crabby, cliché-riddled tirade against materialism and the mania that infects our nation during the calendar’s final months. You’ve heard that many times by now, and you’re either down with it or you’re down at the mall.

But there are other things we do, sabotaging our own best interests in the name of Holiday Spirit. We do them unconsciously. We never question them. To do so would be heresy. So that’s what I aim to do.

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Vacation, Writer-Style

Posted in Fallen Cloud Saga, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , on 15 Oct 2012| 4 Comments »

Kurt R.A. GiambastianiI’m on vacation, so naturally, I am working on my book(s).

My wife chides me. Work has been in a furor for over a month and I haven’t had a day off in three solid weeks, so what do I do on my first day off? I finish the edit on FC:III and start the copy-edit/formatting process. This is fun? This is gearing down? This is taking time off from work to…work?

Actually, yes, it is.

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Hitting the 30k Wall

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , on 01 Oct 2012| 1 Comment »

Kurt R.A. GiambastianiI know I’m not alone. I am pretty sure most writers suffer from it. It presents itself with many symptoms, but the cause is the same. At some point, we lose confidence. Without warning, we are sure that we can’t write, that everything we write is crap, and everything we’ve ever written is crap.

For me, this condition crops up at regular, predictable intervals. I’ll be writing along, and suddenly it all seems so much dross. The outline sounds stupid, juvenile, uninteresting. The story is just so much blathering. I hate what I’ve written, I’m sure everyone will hate what I’ve written, and I can see no point in continuing.

I’ve hit it. I’ve hit the 30k wall. (more…)

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OLB Award

Posted in Culture, tagged , , on 20 Sep 2012| 7 Comments »

The One Lovely Blog Award has come my way. It’s another way for bloggers to show appreciation and bring notice to blogs that we find intriguing.

Sarah over at Musings of a Steampunk—one of my favorite blogs to follow—has nominated this blog for the award! Thanks, Sarah! It’s truly a pleasure to know that this blog reaches and touches other writers and readers.

The Rules for nominees are simple:

  1. Copy and paste the award logo onto a post.
  2. Thank and link back to the person who nominated you.
  3. List seven things about yourself.
  4. Nominate five other blogs.

See? Easy peasy.

My nominees (in no particular order) are:

  1. Mike and Robert vs. the Movies (irreverent, insightful movie guys)
  2. Untitled*United (movies, books, writing, everything)
  3. The Wildflower Scout (I love this blog! Beautiful photos, great hiking)
  4. Paige Nolley (enthusiastic writer/blogger)
  5. Jumping from Cliffs (passionate novelist)

 My 7 things:

  1. I worked as a pressman in a small newspaper, did everything from paste-up to delivery, and nearly earned the nickname “Lefty”.
  2. Every year I try brie cheese to see if it still tastes awful to me (20 yrs so far, still “ick”)
  3. I’ve been reading Proust for five years; I can only handle the prose for 2 weeks at a time, but when I pick it back up, it’s like I never put it down.
  4. I’m related to Eleanor of Aquitaine.
  5. I can only write humorous non-fiction. Humorous fiction (to date) is beyond my capabilities.
  6. I can’t draw worth spit.
  7. I have a thing for old British cars.

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Are We Reaching?

Posted in Culture, Hi Tech, Writing, tagged , , , , on 17 Sep 2012| 2 Comments »

Fifty followers. Fifty.

That may not sound like a lot to you, but it does to me. I’m not even 100 days into this experiment, and already there are 50 of you who found it interesting enough to click the “follow” button. Not bad, in my estimation, especially since most of you 50 (if not all of you) are new to (the thing that is) KRAG. That’s a pretty good reach, in my book.

Mostly, though, it proves a point: Blogging is powerful.

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Searching for Brightness

Posted in Fallen Cloud Saga, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 13 Sep 2012| Leave a Comment »

There were several topics in my head this morning, all vying for attention.

Yesterday was a bad day—personally, nationally, internationally—and the opinions, the frustrations, the anger built until, about 9PM, the dreaded pall of futility and depression began to creep upon me. How to battle not only the news of terrible events, but the rash and unwise reactions that predominated the blogosphere? After so many years, after so many trials, have we learned nothing?

I tried to shake it and turned back to my work prepping The Year the Cloud Fell for re-release. Editing—even a quick review edit like I’m giving these books—may seem like an odd method for lifting one’s mood, but it paid off, for out of the blackness of my mood, there came a warm and friendly light. (more…)

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Liebster Award

Posted in Culture, Writing, tagged , , , on 30 Aug 2012| 6 Comments »

Obey the Kitty!Yesterday, Paige Nolley nominated this blog for a Liebster Award (Thanks, Paige!) The award is really sort of a vox populi way of shining a light on newer blogs (those with followers < 200), which means I most certainly qualify.

The procedure for award nominees is:

  1. Thank and link back to the giver.
  2. Answer the giver’s questions.
  3. ‘Nominate’ five other blogs with fewer than 200 followers.
  4. Ask five questions for one’s nominees to answer.
  5. Post it all on one’s blog!

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