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Transitioning…
Posted on June 29, 2025 Leave a Comment
Things and stuff in the world of literature are chaotic, exhausting, and impossible. I saw a post the other day that if you want to “break into” traditional publishing, you need at least 60K followers on some social media platform. Fuck that! Fuck that to hell! I spent the better part of this past winter […]
Here Comes the Pitch…
Posted on January 14, 2024 Leave a Comment
As the story goes, my sophomore history teacher, Mr. Chamberlin, singled out my mother and father on parent’s night to announce that I was, “an exceptional writer,” and “should be encouraged to write more.” This was news to them. This was breaking news to me. Up to that point in my life, I’d only considered […]
Finding Fidelity—Demolition man
Posted on September 3, 2021 Leave a Comment
Just as spring arrived none-too-soon, Brandon and I were putting the kitchen back together and restoring the powder room to functional status. Everyone was thankful for the simple luxury of no longer having to run upstairs (or outside) to pee or eat. By the time summer was patiently waiting backstage, we managed to wrap up […]
Finding Fidelity, the emails
Posted on July 18, 2021 Leave a Comment
As Drew simulated an earthquake causing some of the trains to derail and dangle over the edge of the stage, I mean cliff, I selected the first catastrophe in my inbox to tackle. This morning, it was scheduling a lunch with the sales dude from our main ECM software vendor. I always found these charades […]
Lipstick Sunset – The Redux
Posted on July 19, 2020 Leave a Comment
If I lay here forever, this can’t end, she thought, in vain. If I never give up this room, it will be mine, forever. She pulled the covers over her face. If I stay here, who will miss me? But he’d have to stay with me… The thought scored her heart. She felt like she was bleeding […]
The Dance
Posted on July 13, 2020 1 Comment
It’s weird. It’s surprising. It’s nearly paradoxical. But there is a whole heap of fear and loathing among writers about the act of writing. As creative writing instructor Larry Donner says in the epic Throw Mama From the Train, Remember, a writer writes, always. This seems so evident as to be absurd, and yet it […]
Blake Charles Donley 