Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Temporary Removal of Excerpts – The Sunshine Line
The Sunshine Line is published! How exciting it that??? I have enrolled The Sunshine Line in Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing Select program, which requires that no more than 10% of a work be published anywhere else. I will be participating in the program for 90 days, after which I will make the book available in a…
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It’s almost time for The Sunshine Line!!
After some delays on the cover art, The Sunshine Line is almost ready to go! Some time in the next few days I will be posting (to Google+ and facebook) the excerpts previously published on this blog, counting down to publication! The Sunshine Line will initially be offered exclusively through Amazon, where I can do promotional days…
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The Larval Stage of an Outline
Every story has to start somewhere. Truthfully, this isn’t especially vague for me for an intial outline. Got to get the ideas I have down, and go from there. Still, this is pretty funny stuff. I hope you enjoy! Oh, and I’m not going to try to adjust the formatting, it just isn’t worth it. I…
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Letter to Dean Pomeroy and Patient Relations, UC Davis
July 25, 2012 Claire Pomeroy, M.D., M.B.A Dean, School of Medicine UC Davis Education Building 4610 X Street, Suite 3101 Sacramento, CA 95817 Re: Treatment at UC Davis Medical Center Dean Pomeroy: I am writing to bring to your attention evidence of the poor education your school is providing its doctors and the resulting impact…
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Spoilers and Sequels and Prequels, Oh My!
If I ever get my cover, I’ll be able to publish The Sunshine Line… So far, I’ve written two sequels and a short story that takes place between the first and second books. And now I’m starting to put together a prequel short story. I was careful in writing the short story mentioned above to…
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Becalmed
I’m still feeling a little bit at sea (thus the title) about what, exactly, I should be working on right now. I think I overloaded myself working on so many different projects more or less simultaneously. I can’t let this go on too long.
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Writing as a Calling?
Thinking up what to write about here today brought to mind an odd analogy. When I was in labor with my second child, my labor went so fast that I was forced to do it “naturally”. With my first child I had an epidural and never felt that “urge to push” that I’d heard of.…
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The Bare-Bones Outline
I’ve been doing a lot of editing and publishing research and all that less-fun stuff a writer has to do in order to become an author. I’ve started to feel desperate to write something, but with all the stuff I’m trying to push out the door I don’t think I should attempt another novel until…
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A Failure with Potential
Last November I failed at NaNoWriMo. I had a seed of an idea that very grudgingly allowed me to create an outline, but when I started to write, it turned wrong. I was writing in the first person and my narrator’s kid was kidnapped. It was awful. Not bad writing; it was awful to write.…
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Excerpt (Un-named) Sequel to The Sunshine Line
From late in the July 2, 1992, chapter Angelina introduced her companion, “This is Amanda, my half sister. She came along because she wanted to meet you.” My face must have shown how puzzled I felt, because Angelina said, “we are both Leo’s daughters, so we know a little about you already. Amanda is very…
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