paint by numbers

Why is there a cotton candy flavor in Dum Dum Pops? What flavor is cotton candy? I am similarly stumped by the bubble gum flavor. An entire bag of Dum Dum Pops will run you about a buck fifty and contains mostly flavors that are not cream soda, which is my favorite Dum Dum Pops flavor. I broke my longish streak of not losing anything. I lost the little Moleskine Cahier notebook I rely on at work. It sucks, but it’s gone and I have to deal. Okay, that was way too mature and calm. I lost my effing work notebook!!!1!!111 The weather has been glorious, the kind of glorious that makes me want to take up a sport. For about five minutes. Then I come to my senses. Still: spring! The only thing wrong with “BtVS” is that there are only seven...

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Posted on 19 Apr 2006 | 4 comments

blocked

I am experiencing writer’s block right now, but more than that: I want to write, I make time to write, I sit down to write, and instead of nothing coming out, a whole bunch of crap comes out, pages and pages of it, and I don’t transcribe it from notebook to disk because it’s That Bad. I have read books that are supposed to help me with this, like Bird by Bird, On Writing, The War of Art, and Writing from the Inside Out. I even started to re-read The Art of Fiction. I’ve meditated, I’ve exercised, I’ve gotten up early, I’ve stayed up late, I’ve stuck to a routine, I’ve been flexible. It boils down to this: I cannot finish a story. I cannot end something. I do not have a logical place for it to go, a path, a...

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Posted on 19 Apr 2006 | 1 comment