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Posted on August 7, 2013August 7, 2013

The Secret: I Can’t Write Right Handed

  Full of optimism and hope, I submitted some poems to a literary magazine. Long before deadline! Hot damn, I accomplished something! Hot damn, these are good poems!!  Then I get an email from the editor from the mag saying: I just wanted to send you a quick note because, after logging in all of …

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Posted on August 6, 2013

Alaska Stories — Land Shark (formerly Crazy)

When I can't write, I become like a badger and start digging around. Maybe there's something in the past I can revisit/improve since I can't think of anything new. To me, that counts as exercise. Literary calisthenics. Years ago, I worked on a fishing processor in Alaska. Instead of taking photographs, I wrote a lot. …

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