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leftbrainwrite leftbrainwrite monday may 25 2009 in memory my dell laptop six years of faithful service this morning booting resulted in nothing but a grey quiet screen no signs or symptoms of impending demise just a peaceful passing something nudged at me this saturday though i did a complete backup onto my external hard drive gotta listen to those gut feelings peace linda posted by blogger at 1 54 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels без рубрики friday may 22 2009 achtung great article in defense of distraction comps of new york magazine on the thrills and perils of twitter adderal texting and all the other multi tasks we conduct the bad news you can t be happy all the time the good news you can pretty much focus all the time the future 30 minute secular attention workouts right there along with our daily dose of treadmill happy long weekend much needed myself i m writing for a great flash fiction contest with prizes money print potential over at editor unleashed and catching up on middlemarch and just hanging with the family peace linda posted by blogger at 7 32 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels без рубрики friday may 15 2009 apologize apologize i grew up on martha s vineyard in a house as big and loud as a parade the clamor resonated along the entire new england coastline calliope whistling batons soaring trumpets bleating everything tapping and humming orchestrated chaos but we could afford it my mother was rich her father s money falling from the sky like ticker tape gently suppressing the ordinary consequences of all that noise lovely huh one phrase best describes may s debut novel pick by elizabeth kelly twelve over the top the writing the characters and story line are among the most flamboyant i ve come across in some time in this story of redemption young collie flanagan serves as the plain vanilla center in the midst of his fabulously wealthy and eccentric family his adulterous boozing father his cruel commie mother a pigeon racing uncle his morally upright prep school failure of a younger brother and the falcon collie s newspaper baron grandfather whose largesse enables them all in the midst of such a flamboyant family collie s only wish is to be ordinary he manages sane stability until a tragic accident leaves him reeling forcing him to figure out what it means to be a man apologize apologize is a comi tragedy unwieldy in places yet elegaic in others the first half of the story rips along with humorous alacrity then takes a sudden turn toward darksome when the tragedy occurs for me this fulcrum is when the story comes alive the first half seems a getting to know you dance filled with anecdotes of growing up flanagan that left me itchy for substance my prickliness was enhanced by the somewhat superficial and stereotypical sketches of some characters must all irish be rip roaring drunks and the somewhat unbelievable events but the second half builds empathy for the protagonist who until then seemed pallid in comparison to his crazy kin indeed i found collie upstaged by his more colorful and likable brother bingo one of the saddest funny books i ve read the story and the characters haunted me for several days and made me reflect on the graces of being less than superordinary the author elizabeth kelly is a canadian journalist and former magazine editor she lives in an old house in a small village in eastern ontario with her husband four children dogs cats and fish the press eh i know as an imprint of the hatchett book group twelve is quasi indy press but i ve wanted to read a book published by twelve for some time due to their mission of publishing one book a month in order to focus on the editorial and marketing attention such books deserve apologize apologize is one of its rare fiction offerings take a gander at this fine debut piece o fiction if for no other reason than the sheer joy of reading the elegant prose peace linda posted by blogger at 3 07 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels без рубрики tuesday may 12 2009 bloody tuesday what i saw this morning on my way to work red rohrshach blotches splattering the sidewalk like breadcrumbs i followed the drops trickling smaller wetter trailing four blocks past sylvie s pawn and check cashing the bus stop across from seven eleven where my friend now dead once worked jaywalking across to stearns fine jewelry starbuck s the hippodrome past nurses and docs scrubbed blue and green i followed hound hungry ruby drops sparkling in fine spatter to emergency then bought a latte went to work so what did you see on your way to work the reading middlemarch by george eliot a dense but fascinating read glad i m reading this with the project 100 fill in the gaps crew it s tough going in spots finished my may debut novel pick look for my review later this week the writing working on chapter 2 of pure putting my brain cells through this novel also readying shorts and poems for flight into the world miscellaneous once reason why those pre publication reviews are often so vicious from the chronicle and hint fiction makes history and gets an agent and a deal yoo hoo posted by blogger at 10 13 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels без рубрики tuesday may 5 2009 you are what you write nathan bransford blogged a provocative post about writers and the way they self identify as writers he notes people don t tend to define themselves by their hobbies rather people tend to identify themselves by their work as he states you can see this in the way people talk about writing some people compare it to oxygen i e something that they can t live without they don t say i like to write it s fun i enjoy it they say unequivocally i am a writer it s who i am i m going to be honest here and say that while i don t judge people when they define themselves as writer whatever their publication status i find it a little unsettling when they make it an overly intrinsic part of their identity first of all people just don t tend to define themselves by their hobbies you don t hear anyone shout to the rafters i am stamp collector or i am a connoisseur of reality television and until you re making a living at it writing is a hobby it s something you do in your spare time right righty oh my hobby in my spare time oh between 5 and 7 am every day a good friend one of my writing buddies received his lay off notice today the subject line on his email pop the champagne you see he s been wanting more time to write to pursue his hobby but the day job has drained him for years i for one am rather tired of this culture that emphasis self identity based upon the position one holds in a paid work force that favors the size of the paycheck and the length of the title i want to live in a world that values art and craft meaning and beauty that treasures the creative spirit that resides in every one of us who am i i am what i write i am writer mother wife sister lover reader singer gardener poet potter sculptor jeweler daughter photographer lampworker mentor professor who are you peace linda posted by blogger at 9 31 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels без рубрики friday may 1 2009 does anyone else feel that bittersweet twinge of sadness now that april month of poetry is over a fabulous 30 days journeyed with fellow poets at poetic asides take time to peruse the more than 25 000 poems posted over the month i m exhausted from writing and reading what will may bring i sense middlemarch a debut book review maybe some good publication news and writing focused on pure even before the acrid sweet smell of urine and cedar assaulted me i knew no usual scurry and rustle of rodents swarming to greet me their provider of food water and amphetamine i dropped my bags at the door cracking it open my eyes adjusted to the crimson glow bathing the room intended to keep the animals in a preternatural state of sleepy calm on the left counter caged white mice deepak s last four metabolic syndrome controls plump from gorging three times their weight every day bumped up sleepily against the plexiglas but not my mice even in the diffused light i could see all eight anorexic manic rodents curled into each other shuddering with shallow exhalations of sleep but when my gaze traveled to the second cage i couldn t discern any shadowy humps or sleeping forms just smaller shapes chunks larger than droppings and food pellets but smaller than animals back to business peace linda posted by blogger at 6 43 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels без рубрики monday april 27 2009 tuesday tidbits the month winds down grant proposals in students dissertations read and passed a pound of asparagus from the garden picked and roasted every day the lilacs scent my garden along with viburnum the restlessness dissipates three more poems to write hallaluah this year napowrimo exhausted me too much going on and stupidly i commenced running pure through my nudgers at the same time and my heart s in pure not the poems so that said i have a few poems with decent bones words i can turn over when i m more engaged and the practice itself the diligence of writing in response to a prompt is a phenomenal opportunity like this in response to the prompt regret a snowy day spent otherwise your eyes scrunch from sun casting icicle rainbows on blank pages under eyelids rebuking you a high pitched whinny snakes through walls under skin despite the frantic looping mantra focus on the word focus on the a pencil slams clatters to the floor feet stomp down the hall to parted curtains the yard gleams in treacherous beauty a snowball shatters glass through melt smear a pink cheeked child slides down crystalline hills whooping joy what is more important than the visceral act of throwing limbs against slatted wood feeling air and icy shards smack against chin and nose your daughter your only born pounce on you at ride s end her face lights up she spies you at the darkened window the muse hisses in your ear your eyes scrunch i remember the day a rare snow day the kids off from school the sun glittering on the icy hill the kids laughing and i chose to work me bad cindy pon s debut silver phoenix beyond the kingdom of xia hits the shelves today young adult fantasy with an asian flair buy it if you re looking for reading inspiration check out this new blog fill in the gaps 100 project fifty of us writers readers editors all passionate about books listed our top to be read lists along with reviews a special yay to emily cross for organizing what started as a comment thread over at editorial ass accepted into lesley university writing workshop for late july in cambridge ma very excited great faculty including julia glass imagine an entire week of writing workshopping and talking about writing in my old stomping ground yippee keep on writing and reading peace linda posted by blogger at 9 23 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels без рубрики older posts home subscribe to posts atom my blog list uzax com rss feed 3 people killed after missile strike on oryol facility in russia three people were killed after a missile strike hit a civilian enterprise in the russian city of oryol regional governor andrey klychkov confirmed on satu 1 hour ago followers blog archive 2009 10 may 6 in memory achtung apologize apologize bloody tuesday you are what you write does anyone else feel that bittersweet twinge april 4 picture window theme powered by blogger