Twice-told tales

What do you do with a story that keeps revealing itself, even when you think you're done with it? I understand that stories — not unlike paintings or sculpture or filmmaking or any kind of artistic endeavor — start out with a rough sketch that, with time, smooths into a recognizable structure and ideally, becomes…

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Registration completed!

Registration Seal I have been legitimized! It's been just under two full months since I sent my story off to the U.S. Copyright Office (I know, it's copyrighted as soon as I create it, but I feel safer and more legit this way) and the wheels of bureaucracy have finally turned far enough to grant…

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Rights hook

The Big C So, it's taken about a month since I finished the book — and several delays, not excepting a need to rewrite part of the last quarter, my own procrastination and the fact that "American Idol" is now on — but the synopsis is done. It's 13,000 long. It has to be 1,400…

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