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 [...]
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Why I Am Not As Good As Hemingway
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. [...]
10,000 words
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.
8,537 words
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