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Today on FLASH BOULEVARD, the wonderful Tom Hedt. Enjoy. flashboulevard.wordpress.com/blog/

Sentences that made me stop reading - A Series. "In the 5th inning of the last game of the Series, I checked the telephone book to see if she {a prostitute, his 1st sexual experience] was still listed. She was still at the same address. I dialed the number." From Vegas, by John Gregory Dunne

About to do a research deep dive into a special interest so I had to take my autism pills

I've got a new flash in the inaugural issue of Rawhead, which is political-ish? rawheadjournal.org/issue-one/ma...

New substack, wherein I excavate my writing past. whenimwriting.substack.com/p/digging-up...

Top lies told on AO3: 1. I finished this draft before I started posting chapters. 2. I won't post anything else until I finish this story. 3. I'm going to update more regularly from now on, guys! ... adorable.

Just was notified that the NEA creative writing fellowships program has been cancelled. #morebadnews

James Baldwin’s message was simple: we’re afraid of love, because we’re afraid of exposing our true selves. To manage that fear, we “other” the groups we don’t belong to in order to avoid a reckoning with ourselves.

Sentences that made me stop reading - A Series. In this case, a phrase: "her long strawberry blonde hair clean and loose..." from The Ink Black Heart. (I distrust a story or a novel that has a description of a female character's hair on the first page."

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Sunday morning writing mantra, via DeLillo, from inside my cocoon of dimmed lights, closed doors, and noise-cancelling headphones: "A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it."

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Sentences that enchanted me -- A Series: "'When I carefully wipe my china cups for a long time,' she said, 'I feel myself growing old.'" from Sido, a reminiscence of her mother, by Colette

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Sentences that made me stop reading - A Series. "In this delightfully absorbing novel, an isolated house in the middle of a menacing desert landscape serves as the backdrop of a reality-TV competition." From a review of The Compound in the New Yorker.

Every day, I am reminded that I live in a society that will believe absolutely anything about a woman to ignore the obvious about men.

Sentences that made me stop reading - A Series: "Patiently shouldering what must have been wearying domestic obligations, he remained a distant figure." (About P D James's father having to take care of his own children, from a piece by Dinah Birch in the London Review of Books)

Novelist, short story writer and screenwriter Raymond Chandler, born 137 years ago today on July 23, 1888. One of the original architects of the hardboiled detective genre. #RaymondChandler #crimefiction #detectivefiction #hardboileddetective #amreading #amwriting

Summer substacking: what we talk about when we talk about writing on vacation. whenimwriting.substack.com/p/free-range...

New substack with complaining about writing. whenimwriting.substack.com/p/writing-is...

New substack - why I listened to 16 covers of God Only Knows, kind of. whenimwriting.substack.com/p/god-only-k...

New substack: sometimes you're writing and sometimes you're writing about writing. whenimwriting.substack.com/p/revisiting...

New substack! whenimwriting.substack.com/p/bridal-wre...

New substack! whenimwriting.substack.com/p/on-taking-...

Sherrod Brown: What Worries Me Most About Trump’s Failing Economy www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/o...

I've got a new flash story up at @newworldwriting.bsky.social. newworldwriting.net/mary-grimm-t...

“A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building—it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.” John Irving

Substacking: writing about the future. open.substack.com/pub/whenimwr...

In the current moment we need to fight for visions of healthy societies based on solidarity economies. ussen.org/2025/01/30/o...

Substacking again. open.substack.com/pub/whenimwr...

Some very kinds words from PW on my upper-MG coming April 1 "...a suspenseful exploration of morality; particularly compelling is perceptive Amber's questioning of truth and loyalty". Whoot! #EduSky

January substack: reading list for when your knee has been taken apart and put together again. open.substack.com/pub/whenimwr...

New substack - in which I ponder the congruence of knee surgery and book publication. open.substack.com/pub/whenimwr...

after 25 years I finally figured out the formula for writing a good poem: you just say what you want to say, cut all the boring stuff, thwack it with a thesaurus, then you grow wings out of your back, oh no they’re bat wings, oh god will your loved ones still love you, time to fly to the moon

I'm about to have knee surgery - more time to write, right?

New to bluesky - looking for writers and readers! Here's a link to my new substack post: whenimwriting.substack.com/p/when-im-wr...