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so you want to be a writer? if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or [...] SAGE FRANCIS – THE BEST OF TIMES It’s been a long and lonely trip but I’m glad that I took it because it was well worth it. I got to read a couple books and do some research before I reached my verdict. Never thought that I was perfect. Always thought that I had [...] Back in the mid 1990s, I interviewed for an associate editor gig at the old Bicycle Guide magazine. Grant Petersen, at Rivendell Bicycle Works (for whom I was the web guy at the time), helped out with an introduction to Garrett Lai, who was the senior editor of the magazine. Part of the interview [...] IN VAIN The stars in the sky In vain The tragedy of Hamlet In vain The key in the lock In vain The sleeping mother In vain The lamp in the corner In vain The lamp in the corner unlit In vain Abraham Lincoln In vain The Aztec empire In vain The writing hand: in [...] TONES ON TAIL – RAIN ooh the rain ooh the rain she said, time to crush this feeling writing very long letters as soon as it rains ooh the rain ooh the rain to dance the night away he watches topless pin-up faces a million different jackpots with a thousand different gazes ooh the [...] ADVENTURES IN INK Fountain pen, an adventure in ink. Words drip from the nib’s caress ——— Strokes flow across the page, swooping letters, sweeping serifs. A poet composes, filling the page with images culled from the mind’s recess. Copyright © 2008, Steven L. Sheffield Picked up a link from Joe Lindsey over at the Boulder Report yesterday. I met Joe a couple of times back in 1995 or 1996, when I interviewed for an associate editor gig at the old Bicycle Guide magazine. Grant Petersen, at Rivendell Bicycle Works (for whom I was the web guy at the time), [...] When it really comes down to it, what is the difference between a scribbler and a scribe? As I’m sure many of my readers have noticed, I have a fascination with words … with reading them, with typing them, and with writing them … and what better way to write than with a really nice [...] |
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