Month: May 2019
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Editing is Better Than Writing, Fight Me!
Yeah! I said it. Editing is better than writing. Deal with it!Seriously though, writing a first draft is like pulling teeth. Coaxing words from the lump of gray matter up there is torture. I’m sure most writers love the serendipitous fuzzy feeling they get from the act of creation, and I’ve gotten it occasionally as…
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Joe Reviews: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson is a legend. Just like every other teenager in high school English, and well before I ever had serious aspirations for writing, I’d read her short story, The Lottery. At the time I didn’t thing much of it. It was just another thing I had to read for class, and I made it…
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By Golly, The PNW is Awesome! And Here’s Why – Part 2: The Olympic Peninsula
I think it is time for another post on why it is so awesome to live in the Pacific Northwest. In my other post I filled you all in on the stupendous weather of the region. This time I want to talk about a personal obsession: The Olympic Peninsula.I’ve talked about the Olympic Peninsula a…