http://writingandreading.today.com The Unforgivable Rantings of a Wretched Writer! Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:10:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You wouldn't believe it (given how rock-hard, scuzzy cool I am!), but I am a bit of a..."schoolboy"! Here at the Taco Supreme 55.5, just like Mr. W.W. I love being in jammies and cute slippers, sitting in my room and daydreaming! (sighs) Daydreaming about all things that have to ... http://writingandreading.today.com/2009/11/12/sleeping-schoolboy-freak-quincy/ Just as an homage to one of my little girl's favorite characters on "Strawberry Shortcake", I've titled this post in honor of the indomitable Rainbow Dash. I don't know who she is, though. I only hear her name about upteenth million times a day-- "See Rainbow Dash, Daddy? Daddy! Daddy! Rainbow ... http://writingandreading.today.com/2009/11/01/rainbow-em-dash/ A long, long, long, long, long time in coming for another one of these fun-filled posts, and it is definitely about that time--while I wait for my chicken fingers to cook in the microwave in the middle of the night--to get one of these posts in. Not to mention I'm as ... http://writingandreading.today.com/2009/10/19/the-mic-has-been-reborn-cut-the-umbilical-cord/ This is a very special segment of "Eloquence", in that these clips aren't necessarily famous 'clips'. No. What they are, are.... INTROS!!!! You know what I'm talkin' about. When you sit down in the movie theatre, and the movie studio logo rolls in, and you hear the build-up of the beginning ... http://writingandreading.today.com/2009/10/07/eloquence-of-words-intros/ Welcome! Been a long time since I posted a video on here. Nothing has changed much. I promised a review on here, so here it is. Getting into the genre of vampires, vampire novels, we have Chris Marie Green's NIGHT RISING. Enjoy! http://writingandreading.today.com/2009/10/02/video-book-review-night-rising/ Check this: long time comin' that I post a slam poem on here. Many, many slam poets bleed through the walls like angel mold and color everything with the prettiest blues and reds, their scents of succulence thickening the air and everywhere on chairs, stairs and all outside in county fairs ... http://writingandreading.today.com/2009/09/30/slam-duh-duuuh-duh-duh-duuuh-duh/ No, I have not grown a tumor inside the language center of my brain. No, I have not shoved a couple dozen cottonballs inside my mouth. I promise you, I'm in my right mind (at least my definition of a 'right mind'). And the title to this article does have a point. Yes, ... http://writingandreading.today.com/2009/09/30/reputed-pitarder/ It was a lot of fun putting out a contest and actually giving a real person, a person I never met who--as far as I can gather--is NOT majorly involved in the literary industry, an actual copy of my debut novel. It was an existential, exhilarating feeling to e-mail that ... http://writingandreading.today.com/2009/09/25/winner-of-the-facebook-contest-for-the-cain-letters/ It's go time now, people. Time to show the money. Not 'actual' money, mind you. It's a figure of speech. It's that good ol' fashioned Jerry Maguire talk. What I mean by the 'money' is that I now have my ARC, courtesy of Eirelander Publishing. Final edit is done. The final ... http://writingandreading.today.com/2009/09/19/facebook-contest-for-the-cain-letters/ And this, my friends, is a testament to what it means to dive headfirst into the publishing industry, swim with the sharks, drown a little bit and then be proverbially resuscitated by the literary desire gods that keep us writers going through the deep blue sea of rejection jellyfishes and nasty octopus ... http://writingandreading.today.com/2009/09/12/nathan-bransford-and-the-wonderbar-stone/