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Cooking the Hook

Writing about-  Why  I work with vintage cloth.



3.31  the only way to get it done is to dream on it and then get up and do it. No music no TV, just some coffee and the time. I spent the morning with a bully and a thug and one of my main characters committed a stone-cold murder. Let the fun begin.
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3.24_HK, as suggested by a friend (who is a writer) is the just jumping-off point for the novel.  I had a great time getting the bare bones a little fleshy while I was in FL. Now to not let it languish. !
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2.26.14 - submitted "Heaven's Kitchen" to Glimmerpress..now to forget about that and move on.
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I don't know when I'll be able to write for public consumption again. Who wants to read about someone's grief and loss? It's hard enough answering the emails and letters of condolence that have been sent. When will it click off?
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Notice 1.2.13 - It's eight o'clock in the morning and I am already awash in fatigue, a rowboat where the one assigned to bail has mysteriously disappeared. Did she fall overboard? Was she gathered to the bosom of the Lord in a one-person Rapture?
The boat is well stocked with shiftless assholes doing nothing and the water is now lapping at the seat planks.

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I have heard from a lot of people about "Night Skating" so from time to time I'll tell other tales here.

When my sons were in elementary school and first came home with assignments asking them to write a story they were typically stymied so I took advantage of a child's naturally base nature and told them "Being a writer is the only job where you get paid to tell lies"
You should have seen the wide eyes and evil smirks as the wheels in their heads began revving at speed!

a pencil and a piece of paper is all you need:
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From the text of “Aspects of the Novel” by E.M. Forster

Story “... is immensely old – goes back to a neolithic time, perhaps paleolithic. The neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around the campfire, fatigued with contending against the mammoth or the Woolly rhinoceros, and only kept awake by suspense. What would happen next? The novelist droned on, and as soon as the audience guessed what happened next, they either fell asleep or killed him”

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“The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly, the dark side is rising. Things could not have been more odd and frightening in the Middle Ages. But the tradition of artists will continue no matter what form the society takes. And this is another reason to write: people need us, to mirror for them and for each other without distortion-not to look around and say, 'Look at yourselves, you idiots!,' but to say, 'This is who we are.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life 

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“I go back to trying to breathe, slowly and calmly, and I finally notice the one-inch picture frame that I put on my desk to remind me of short assignments. It reminds me that all I have to do is to write down as much as I can see through a one-inch picture frame. This is all I have to bite off for the time being.”
 ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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_________ Market Scene_____________...
Quiet, dark house.
A distant dryer rumbles.
Everyone home and sleeping.
Coiled cats mutter over
missed sunning opportunities, paws over their eyes.
In the market today I stood in a shaft of sunlight
glad it was coming over my shoulder,
the better to read the promises and lies
on the bottles of vitamins. After the Cs, Ds and Es,
I closed my eyes and leaned back into the warmth
resigned to indecision.
Leaning out the window of his glass prison,
the elderly pharmacist said "Bella, Signora, bella".
From some other me,I knew to smile and say "Grazie"
then turn and get on with the day, a winter bouquet added to my list.

c.2005 d.lacativa

She is at peace.

I know that the infirmity and illness she struggled with affronted her dignity more than anything. I went to ridiculous lengths to see that she was comfortable for a long time. Now that she is gone, I feel unemployed. 

I am not haunted although I see her out of the corner of my eye everywhere, especially at dusk. A fallen magnolia blossom, a scrap of paper in the weeds - all call my eyes for a second look and a sigh of sadness.

No one is standing in the driveway waiting impatiently for me when I return home in the car. Under all those silky graphics she was never more than seven pounds, such a little cat, but the empty space she left behind is much larger than I expected it to be.

And here are my darlings, together again.