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Reading: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Music: Jim Croce's Photographs and Memories
TV/Movie: Friends season one DVD set (love that Chandler!)
Link o' the Day: The New Yorker’s online fiction page
One of my favorite cartoons was published in a magazine sometime in the late 70s--maybe around ‘79 or so. It featured an old couple sitting on a porch. The old man sez, “Martha... I think we’re the only two people in the world who haven’t seen Star Wars yet.” He takes out a gun and shoots her, then looks wickedly at the reader. “Heh,” he sez, “Now I’m the only one!”
As alert readers may have noted from above, I’ve just started Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone at long last. I’ve not really been putting it off. More, I didn’t have any great yen to read them yet. Sure, the movies are entertaining and it looks like a rich set of tales, but I have plenty of other books to read. So why start this now?
I saw the previws for the third movie and I was very inpressed. Intrigued, even. I decided it was time to see wot all the fuss was about. (That, and Pretty Maggie has been trying to get me to read them for almost two years now.) I’m about 75 pages into it, and already I know I’m going to finish it--probably before the weekend’s out. (Yes, I know these books generally take a day to read, but I’m a busy man these days.) Anyway... I’ll read this. I’ll probably read the ones that follow.
Another one bites the dust. No need to shoot.
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I’m not sure why I am still getting Writer’s Digest magazine. I decided not to renew my subscription after deciding that, while the articles weren’t all that bad, it didn’t encourage writing for professional rates as much as I thought it should. It’s market listing often included publications that paid in copies. Now it seems that they’re taking a more serious approach toward high-paying markets. I’ve even gotten some good writing ideas out of this latest issue, and wrote a short nonfiction article I may try selling to one of their listed markets.
I may have to reconsider this whole resubscription thing.
* * *
So I have one of those little hand-held tape recorders. I have it to record writing ideas. But will I ever play the tape back? I’ve tried this before, but to no avail. I read an article in which Kevin Anderson (whose Dune books with Brian Herbert have been best-sellers) composes solely on these little tape recorders. It sounds like a good idea, but the transcription process seems like it would be a pain in the ass.
My usual method for noting ideas is to write them on scraps of paper. But then I lose the scraps of paper amidst the chaos that is my office.
Herm
* * *
Today’s link leads to The New Yorker’s online fiction page. Always worth checking out. Very often worth reading. (I admit--some of the fiction doesn’t do much for me, but much of it does.)
Enjoy!
Music: Jim Croce's Photographs and Memories
TV/Movie: Friends season one DVD set (love that Chandler!)
Link o' the Day: The New Yorker’s online fiction page
One of my favorite cartoons was published in a magazine sometime in the late 70s--maybe around ‘79 or so. It featured an old couple sitting on a porch. The old man sez, “Martha... I think we’re the only two people in the world who haven’t seen Star Wars yet.” He takes out a gun and shoots her, then looks wickedly at the reader. “Heh,” he sez, “Now I’m the only one!”
As alert readers may have noted from above, I’ve just started Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone at long last. I’ve not really been putting it off. More, I didn’t have any great yen to read them yet. Sure, the movies are entertaining and it looks like a rich set of tales, but I have plenty of other books to read. So why start this now?
I saw the previws for the third movie and I was very inpressed. Intrigued, even. I decided it was time to see wot all the fuss was about. (That, and Pretty Maggie has been trying to get me to read them for almost two years now.) I’m about 75 pages into it, and already I know I’m going to finish it--probably before the weekend’s out. (Yes, I know these books generally take a day to read, but I’m a busy man these days.) Anyway... I’ll read this. I’ll probably read the ones that follow.
Another one bites the dust. No need to shoot.
* * *
I’m not sure why I am still getting Writer’s Digest magazine. I decided not to renew my subscription after deciding that, while the articles weren’t all that bad, it didn’t encourage writing for professional rates as much as I thought it should. It’s market listing often included publications that paid in copies. Now it seems that they’re taking a more serious approach toward high-paying markets. I’ve even gotten some good writing ideas out of this latest issue, and wrote a short nonfiction article I may try selling to one of their listed markets.
I may have to reconsider this whole resubscription thing.
* * *
So I have one of those little hand-held tape recorders. I have it to record writing ideas. But will I ever play the tape back? I’ve tried this before, but to no avail. I read an article in which Kevin Anderson (whose Dune books with Brian Herbert have been best-sellers) composes solely on these little tape recorders. It sounds like a good idea, but the transcription process seems like it would be a pain in the ass.
My usual method for noting ideas is to write them on scraps of paper. But then I lose the scraps of paper amidst the chaos that is my office.
Herm
* * *
Today’s link leads to The New Yorker’s online fiction page. Always worth checking out. Very often worth reading. (I admit--some of the fiction doesn’t do much for me, but much of it does.)
Enjoy!
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