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Before the Trier, there was Tripio

  Writing books Would you buy a book from the guy behind that table? I hope not. I wouldn’t, even if it were me. But it was me at a Half-Priced Books south of Indy back when my first novel Tripio had been published early spring 2019. Yuck.   I look at that photo now and see that I have come a long, long way. But that is such a boring thing to type. Yuck.   What I remember most about that day was…

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Exlpain this

“For after all the great religions have been preached and expounded, or have been revealed by brilliant scholars, or have been written in fine books and embellished in fine languages with finer covers, – man-all man-is still confronted with the Great Mystery” -Chief Luther Standing Bear   Oglala Sioux Let’s keep it that way

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Enjoyin' my coffee

Drinking some coffee and listening to the river. Silence is the mother of wisdom.

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Marcus Aurelius forsees social media

        “Do you get sidetracked when external things intrude? Free yourself from them, in favor of learning something new and worthwhile, and stop your purposeless wondering.” -Meditations

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The time given us

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”   The word decide is often used in business, or football, or while shopping. He decided to sell the stock, or he decided to punt the ball on fourth down. I decided on…

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an inconvenient booth

    The lost place In order to finish the first version of the second book of my Trier series I had to start the third. There’s a lot going on in that one short sentence, not the least of which is that it sounds like the start of a word problem from high school math class. However, I did the same when I finished the Trier. I felt like I needed to see how it “landed”. It worked for me. I…

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Black coffee with humor

                                                “One reason I write so slowly is I try to make each joke work.”                                                                                         Kurt Vonnegut       Coffee My personal history with coffee is very serious and very personal. I was one of the few people on this planet who was granted hundreds of shares of Starbucks stock options…

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I am a structure

AThe goal is to commit to a structure that can take on a life of its own, instead of creating only when the mood strikes. – Rick Rubin, music industry superstar. I am a system. – James Harden, NBA superstar.   A structure   I am not sure if there are a lot of similarities shared by Rick Rubin and James Hardin, except for they both sport beards. However, this morning I am bringing getting them…

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Melville foresees the phone

      “There were none of those thousand sources of irritation that the ingenuity of civilized man has created to mar his own felicity.”                                         Herman Melville from Typee  I found the quote in Lapham’s, before I found the cartoon.      

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changing happy to glad

  Happy Everyone now and then I think about revising my first novel, Tripio. I’m guessing that I am not alone in this, especially on one’s first novel. When I actually voiced this over a phone call to my book producer, who I worked with on the Trier, his response was that a lot of authors do feel this way. He told me what was involved from a technical standpoint in order to, as he put, “re-pour”…

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Meet me in St. Louis?

The Trier Tour’24 Gets Underway This Weekend   Meet me in St. Louis? I took the cold winter months off touring to work on the follow up to The Trier, which went really well. But writing the follow up doesn’t help sell the first book, so I’m hitting the road again. Can’t wait to get started on The Trier Tour ’24.

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what's in a label

With the overwhelming amount of information available to us, we are more reliant than ever on categorization, labels and shortcuts- these can bring us a sense of security in shrinking the world to make it more manageable- A writer does not value safety or sameness.   A label This quote from Rick Rubin has been visiting my mind for a while. I think it has to be because I recently sent in my…

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Finding my voice

                          The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state that makes art inevitable.   Finding my voice This morning I am reviewing my 5th Chakra. You heard me right. It is snowing and cold. I just wrote in my journal that the wind is literally rattling the windowpanes of this 112 year old house. So, why not brew some coffee and see how I’m doing in good ol’…

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Tripio

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My writing practice

 Writing practice   I spent several hours yesterday morning actually writing. Sitting on my chair at my laptop grinding away on some plot points on my follow up to The Trier. For the record the working title is The Trier goes to London. It is set in 1675, or thereabouts, because that was the year Charles II of England issued a proclamation that ordered the closing of all of London’s coffee…

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That wonderful state

That Wonderful State   The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in That wonderful state that makes art inevitable.                                                                                 -Robert Henri There it was. I read the above quote from some guy I had never heard of.  It is on the first page of Rick Rubin’s book, The Creative Act- A Way of Being. Not sure if you’ve ever heard of…

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You can go home again

BuYou can go home again   Trying to go home I think I was being selfish. But it worked out. I discovered that you can go home again, provided you are paying attention. I had been trying for months to get a book signing and selling event in my hometown of Dayton, Ohio. It was one of my first intentions made when I decided to take my novel The Trier on its book launch tour. The tour has covered…