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Friday, December 31, 2021

Ghost Stories for Christmas

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  “His ghost stories transformed the genre like a galvanic shock. His universe — the one which made him famous as a first-rate writer of gho...
Sunday, December 5, 2021

Ten Things I Learned from National Novel Writing Month 2021

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  “Finish things.” - Neil Gaiman This year was my fourth year participating in November’s National Novel Writing Month. I had three goals th...
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Sunday, November 28, 2021

The Dying Earth by Jack Vance

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  “I lived beside the ocean – in a white villa among poplar trees. Across Tenebrosa Bay the Cape of Sad Remembrance reached into the ocean, ...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Thoughts on National Novel Writing Month

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  “The truth is that there’s always a gap between the story as you imagined it - compelling, insightful, rich with subtle nuance - and what...
Sunday, October 31, 2021

Scary Movies

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“When we pay our four or five bucks and seat ourselves at tenth-row center in a theater showing a horror movie, we are daring the nightmare....
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Berserk: Sword and Sorcery Manga as Nietzschean Tragedy?

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  “...to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.” - Gordon W. Allport Berserk is the story of Guts, a mercenary ...
Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Fear by L. Ron Hubbard

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"The state of being 'grown up' was a state beset by as many worries, and just as false, as those of childhood." - from Fea...
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Jim Reddy
Book lover, comic book and movie fan. Haunter of used bookstores. I love to write but I don’t do enough of it. This blog is my attempt to change that.
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