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gh cough i don t think so well i was key in the inciting incident no i think you were key in comic relief stop hitting me you started it did not did too did not can you all be quiet i m trying to get some sleep whisper see what you did now you pissed her off what do you mean me you were the one who said we needed to do more yeah well i think she missed some opportunities this manuscript could really do well except for your portrayal my portrayal my portrayal i just don t think you re sympathetic enough i m sympathetic you re deeply flawed deeply flawed if you guys can t shut up i will write you both out of this book you hear me this is all your fault your fault your fault what s that sound uh oh she s going over to her computer she s typing hey we re sor_ please don t arrrrggg_ ah blessed silence being an author is much more pleasant without characters posted by orion at 6 52 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday march 12 2014 due to popular demand it is time the walrus said paraphrasing to speak of many things i chose to have the walrus talk about revival revival restoration comeback resurgence after much procrastination i have finally decided to begin blogging again steve this one s for you i m a bit rusty of course i have no time but here s the thing i miss all my blogger compatriots and then there s facebook weeeelllll hmmmm let s not get into trashing facebook oh heck let s the advertisements thumbs down the creeeeeeepy friend requests double thumbs down the insidious ways it has of forcing you to play stupid games and waste massive amounts of time it s not like i have any control over what i do i lost that a long time ago when i installed my first dial up internet connection back in the day i digress we were talking about blogging capital b i was thinking i didn t have the time i was thinking that i needed help i realized this morning that i do have help my characters wasn t it e l doctorow who said writing is socially acceptable schizophrenia i have a ton of them in my head i will draw on their help to create posts that i hope will be worth reading i know they will be worth writing so open the comments section start your engines let the blogging begin now this first blog post is dedicated to chris the church lady rip posted by orion at 7 55 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday november 11 2012 light of paris posted by orion at 9 35 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday april 12 2012 keeping mum about the lottery or no use shutting the barn door after all the horses have escaped i was asked by cnn to do an op ed piece on winning the lottery and staying anonymous the responses in the comments section were quite interesting some thought i was a blatant promoter of my book trust me cnn was the one who put the links in some offered their own so called expert opinions well i think you have to win or be related to a winner to be considered an expert some thought by doing the op ed piece i was contradicting my advice um no as i noted above it s too late to keep quiet about it after it s been in all the papers and others made observations about my looks to my intelligence not sure what any of that had to do about my opinion piece it wasn t meant to be news but it was fun to write and that s what we writers enjoy stringing those words together posted by orion at 8 34 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday december 07 2011 blogging about what s really important i got to thinking during apec you know when they rounded up all the homeless so the state of hawaii wasn t embarrassed why is it out of sight out of mind not sure what i can do about this but i guess i can change my attitude for me it s now there but for fortune is there a path we can take or is this something we learn to accept as part of society what do you think posted by orion at 2 08 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday september 12 2011 a brand new start introducing tootooloose i good bot cat i playz hard i learning manerz from granma i slepz wher i want yup lif is gud posted by orion at 10 53 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday august 08 2011 tooloose 2000 2011 the last will and testament of tooloose wood 1 i lev my toyz to girl kittee 2 i lev my ideaz to pat wood author even tho she will nut du justiz to them 3 i lev peeze to the wurld i d rather be ashes than dust he lived his life to the fullest what is there to say cardio myopathy is the leading cause of sudden death in otherwise healthy cats we miss him horribly tooloose was well known in the harbor as a bow guard he was an escape artiste and a writer his opus revenge of the alien space monkeez remains a testament to his talent and is unfinished like truman capote i can only find paragraphs and vague outlines there was a detailed plan on his future book tour and interview with barbara walters and the photos he wanted in people magazine i offer this all as a memorial posted by orion at 7 45 am 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday august 02 2011 hooray for poland the polish edition of lottery was released and i had great fun googling and translating reviews i surely am a glutton for flattery in any language posted by orion at 6 12 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday june 04 2011 tms too much stuff sometimes more seems like better this sailboat has a case of the i gotta have and the can t throw away it s tempting to think two kayaks are better than one that you will save on that 24 gallon jug of olive oil or shampoo or mouthwash there was a reason i posted this photograph you see it s just exactly like writing a novel you start out with a nice clean idea and then you start to add things i m writing a simple coming of age story about a young man who s looking for his father and turns into a vampire who saves the world and then there s this sidekick who dabbles in real estate and i need the history of the financial meltdown of 2008 in there and of course the vampire back story of all 357 years and then they get sent forward in time and arrive at a space station well you get it posted by orion at 9 31 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday june 03 2011 sunset a bust and thou so gw and i hung out on the deck and watched the sunset after a day full of thunder lightening rain and hail suddenly four police cars and an ambulance pull up amid shouting of get off my f ing boat ah the ambiance of a harbor posted by orion at 7 29 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday october 10 2010 the golden rule as taken from bambi if you can t say something nice don t say nothing at all every book does not appeal to every reader i just read a post about an author trashing another author s book why would an author do this after reading the adversarial exchanges between some authors and reviewers i have to shake my head it seems facebook and the internet gives us the anonymity so we are able to feel entitled to take those cheap shots would people say the same things face to face i wonder i m going to take a page from tooloose s book as a cat and being easily distracted he learns from them and then lets these things go so tooloose do you have any wise words for us my bok alien spaze monkeeze is nut fer everyone it is hard to writ ezpecially with no apozable thumbs al i cin say iz be nize to each uther i guess that s it in a nutshell be nice posted by orion at 6 05 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday august 28 2010 you can t get something for nothing people think another email came into my author account big sigh a victim of this scam and it is a scam it has nothing to do with my spanish publisher or me or my novel lottery patricia wood award program corporate office madrid spain reference es 99 82 70 batch no pw 23 51 ap lucky no 36 64 19 11 dear beneficiary on behalf of spanish patricia wood awards staffs wishes to congratulate you on your success as one of our four lucky winner of the online award held on 1th july 2010 in spain this makes you the proud owner of a prize of 350 000 00 euros three hundred and fifty thousand euro in cash all 4 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50 000 000 international email addresses and your email was among the first four 4 lucky winners therefore you do not need to buy ticket to enter for it your winnings will be issued to you as soon as our spanish claims department verifies your winning after you might have filled this payment processing form that is below fill and send to the assigned claims agent via email full name age occupation address country phone no mobile no fax if any winning email address assigned claims agent dr eduardo pablo e mail claims_unit11 hotmail com for more info call tel 34 622 646 594 yours sincerely spinazzola karen online coordinator don t be sucked in i have received several emails from people chastising me for being a part of this and trust me i am not a part of this i m hoping this blog post will come up on google when people research this before they send money lesson here if it seems to good to be true it is posted by orion at 7 16 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday august 18 2010 bread loaf bonfire and thou you must imagine the fire the shivering bodies the mosquitos the bears and ticks hidden just in the shadows what i have learned so far optimism in critiquing analyzing a story helps find the center or core and the themes that traverse your narrative creative pieces are worth being created there is a humbleness here that i embrace more later much more later posted by orion at 5 57 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday august 16 2010 this is my brain this is my brain on bread loaf re think so i started walking every morning picked up the crumb which is the bread loaf daily paper i m in the middle of a meadow on the edge of the woods when i read this sentence do not pet the baby bears or baby moose as their mothers will probably most likely with certainty attack you well it may have been worded not quite so strongly but that s what i thought i read i took off running back to the campus then i screeched to a stop don t bears take running away as a sign of weakness i started to tip toe away then i heard a sound a moose sound well a bird really but it could have been a moose i decided to jog really really fast when i reached safety i mentioned my fears to hardy and forest smart vermonters pooh they said we ve not seen any bear or moose around here i breathed a sigh of relief but you have to be on the look out for ticks they said those pests will get into anything ticks my voice got all squeaky and i started peeling up my pants leg and examining anything that looked tick like it was hard as i haven t ever seen a tick most of what i picked off myself was fluff balls from my black socks one can t be too careful i don t walk in the woods in the mornings anymore instead i m walking along highway 125 large diesel spewing trucks i can handle ticks i can t posted by orion at 5 17 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday august 15 2010 a chair by the fire exhausted after the dance in the barn the halfway point after lectures and craft classes and workshops we needed a break what happened exactly after i found myself dancing between andrea barrett and margot livesey i ll never tell what goes on at bread loaf stays in bread loaf posted by orion at 6 30 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday august 13 2010 happymaking joyous day what i learned today poets kick ass solitude is critical for recharging and a quote provided from jane hirschfield insight is not achieved by domestication posted by orion at 5 01 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday august 11 2010 bread loaf pastoral so here s the thing bread loaf writers conference is magic i m under its spell already and i ve only been here a day i m meeting writers of all types kinds and sizes and getting inspired by their stories today i heard readings by linda gregerson and jim shepard and was in awe i have my alarm set for 6 30 am and plan to wander the property and visualize what it was like to meet robert frost willa cather and all the other authors who have strolled the grounds i will answer any questions that my blogging buddies may have write on posted by orion at 5 16 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday august 08 2010 yippee skippee on my way to bread loaf back in may i found out i was accepted to the bread loaf writers conference and then i immediately damaged myself to celebrate not really but that s the way it appeared so then i ve now gotten my workshop assignment jim shephard and received my fellow workshopper manuscripts what are we called anyway not sure and i have packed necessary items like my kindle ipod notebooks mosquito repellent rain poncho and a few clothes gotten my boarding pass and am counting down the minutes before leaving for the airport so i will try to sneak off and post plaintive bulletins cries for help or effusive rantings so my pain and joy can be felt vicariously isn t that what writers do anyway wish me luck posted by orion at 10 42 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday august 02 2010 sorry blogger i have sinned okay so the time got away from me being wounded and all and i must admit that blogger wasn t the first thing on my mind when i woke up each morning trying to get my knee or hand to work insert violin music here so i decided to make an effort to post regularly again there is no better means of procrastination for a writer than blogger anyway i also decided to do some short story writing and flash fiction just for giggles and snorts and anything else that tooloose the cat thinks would be useful or recent altercations with the non writing world such as friday night i went for a walk down the quay fancy name for a dock when you are writing a story and need to use the word dock a lot and find you used it like twenty times in one paragraph so you need to figure out all the different ways to say dock like finger pier and wharf and um well dock anyway a boat owner down the way had been indulging in spirits a fancy way to say drunk blotto wasted inebriated he collapsed on my shoulder and said in my ear you re the author lady it was a statement i...