Due to some serious life changes (work related & recent family size expansion, for the most part) I’ve fallen off the blogging wagon; though I doubt that I’ll ever go back to blogging on a daily basis, with the possible exception of the dog mushing race season, I’m back to “steady” writing. This includes frequent […]
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Ten in the Hole
August 20, 2011 
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A rough draft excerpt from my current project The Book of Ten, where we find the young hero of the story in a most dire situation… *** …I took a deep breath and forced myself to look down at my feet. They were both engorged to nearly twice their normal size, and black from blood […]
Continue readingI saw Sasquatch on the ’93 Iditarod #3
August 7, 2011 0 Comments
Part 3 I had never seen this country before, and as Ophir disappeared in the rear-view mirror, I forgot about the competition for a while and gazed in awe at the surrounding panorama. Viewed from the top of the highest point, stunted spruce mixed with a scrub of grizzled birch and alder furred the lower […]
Continue readingApocalypto & Other Hits
August 2, 2011 0 Comments
Here are five movies that over the years have shaped my sense of drama & thematic design to a very powerful degree: All five of these films feature a strong male protagonist unafraid of shedding copious quantities of blood in order to accomplish their quests–always righteous, naturally–epic orchestral scores that make you feel like you’re […]
Continue readingAfter the bar shooting incident…
July 30, 2011 0 Comments
From The Book of Ten–Act I: A Company of Wolves (very rough draft). …I swam up through a fog of pain and sleep and saw bent over my bed a man with an oiled black pompadour and sweat running down his face. He wore little wire rimmed spectacles and one of the lenses was dotted […]
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