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Fear - This quote struck me deeply	Posted:Apr 28, 2024 4:41 am Last Updated:Apr 29, 2024 2:50 pm 157 Views
"He was afraid. He had always been afraid. Forever at the margin of his mind there was something to be afraid of, something to fear. He did not know what it was, but it was always there, real, imminent, unimaginable." (From House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday)
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A Slump- Updated 4/29/24	Posted:Apr 27, 2024 9:16 pm Last Updated:Apr 29, 2024 10:14 am 207 Views
I am in a slump. I can't thinks of ways to move my stories forward, I can't think of interesting "scenes", and I have less and less energy to visit rooms and make an effort at a connection of any kind. I am sure this well pass - but for the moment - well, there's no resolve here. Update - I got a couple of bits added to two of my stories. Not the best of my writing but not the not the worst, either. One more to go.
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Klezmer Music - My new obsession	Posted:Apr 26, 2024 4:43 pm Last Updated:Apr 28, 2024 4:42 am 296 Views
I admit to not knowing a lot about the history of and influences on klezmer music. Indeed, I have always and only associated it with music of the Jews in central and eastern Europe. But I have always enjoyed listening to it and am grateful for groups such as the Klezmer Conservatory Band and artists such as Itzhak Perlman for playing and promoting klezmer. I mention this because the last time I was at the music store where I have my instruments tended to, one of the staff enthusiastically recommended a book of easy klezmer tunes for the violin. I bought it and have been playing the tunes ever since. When I get adventurous, I see if I can play them also on the viola. It is nice to discover something new as we age - and this is a discovery that I am more than a little grateful for. (4/28/24-- I posted a video of me playing a little klezmer tune. Hope you like it.)
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Happy Passover	Posted:Apr 22, 2024 8:41 am Last Updated:Apr 23, 2024 7:36 pm 817 Views
Hope you find the afikomen (and not the Kofi Annan).
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Now Available - Sequel to The Wrong Side of Town - Her Story - 7	Posted:Apr 21, 2024 3:51 pm Last Updated:Apr 21, 2024 4:16 pm 901 Views
On the discussion board at NNFU's Fantasy Writing Room
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Note to "Soon to be Inactive Members" of my Writing Room	Posted:Apr 21, 2024 9:26 am Last Updated:Apr 29, 2024 2:50 pm 922 Views
Thanks for spending time in my Fantasy Writing Room - and you are always welcome to rejoin.
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Blog Views - Bots?	Posted:Apr 21, 2024 9:22 am Last Updated:Apr 22, 2024 4:58 am 966 Views
I noticed recently a stunning uptick in the number of views of my blog. At first I thought - cool, people are looking at what I have written - and then the skeptic in me thought/wondered - are these views generated by bots crawling the site?
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Here's the Opening Line - A Story in Progress - (And Finished)	Posted:Apr 17, 2024 6:58 am Last Updated:Apr 19, 2024 6:34 am 3097 Views
There is an interesting story in progress at the discussion board at NNFU's Fantasy Writing Room. It would be a fun thought experiment to see how two women or a man and woman would build the story given the same opening line. (Yes, that is an invitation to do so.) 4/19/24 - Story is over.
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New Story - A Hitchhiker Story - Parts 1, 2, and 3	Posted:Apr 16, 2024 3:38 pm Last Updated:Apr 21, 2024 5:51 am 3881 Views
All three parts are available on the discussion board at "ed fantasy kidnapped" - Ideas for plot development always accepted.
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A Story - Part 5 - A Dark Turn	Posted:Apr 15, 2024 10:31 am Last Updated:Apr 15, 2024 1:34 pm 3974 Views
At NNFU's Fantasy Writing Room Discussion Board.
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