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09.15.08

Covers Magazine, Fall 2008 Writing | (1)
The latest issue of Covers Magazine is out, featuring a couple articles by me (i.e., Conlan). You can read the issue online by clicking the Covers Digital Edition link on their home page. If you would like your very own physical copy, you can buy one somewhere around Fresno, probably. And no, I don't know why it's called Covers. I should ask. It's probably because it "covers" stuff, not because it's full of covers. Most of it is actually made of pages. There's only one cover per issue, as far as I can tell. Irregardlessness: the cover story, which I wrote, is ...
04.03.08

Why I Am Not As Good As Hemingway Internets, Writing | (2)
For years I've wondered why I'm not a famous writer. I mean, I seem to have all the ingredients: proficiency with language and sincerity of emotion, a romantic worldview coupled with a healthy disdain for humanity, and of course the crippling depression. The formula has worked for so many others. Faulkner and Fitzgerald are universal. Even Hemingway and Plath were able to produce volumes of work and chum-buckets of praise before getting sick of it all. Why not me? OK, granted, I haven't really given alcoholism a fair shake. I admit that, and I promise to try harder in the ...
11.08.07

10,000 words Writing | (7)
This one feels good. Here are the sentences that make up words 9,983 through 10,000: At home I stick the coffee warmer into the mirror hanging on the back of my bedroom door. I sit on my bed and stare at it. Pretty sloppy writing, if you ask me. No revising during November, thank you.
11.07.07

8,537 words Writing | (0)
Nothing.
11.05.07

8,180 words Writing | (2)
Slow day for noveling. But I feel my loyal readers deserve a little excerpt action. Bearing in mind this is in first draft form, I present to you the world's first taste of Untitled Novel: “That is absolutely right,” I say. “Really?” She opens her eyes. “Sure.” “Ha,” she says. She doesn’t laugh; she says the word “ha”. You're welcome.

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