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Bill Bowling

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Krypton, (no joke, fact), The United States

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Poetry, Nonfiction, Fantasy

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The first hurdle this writer had to clear was embracing the notion: "I am a writer; a writer is what I want to be, and what I was meant to be." That one was fairly easy, and has been cleared, sometimes self-esteem falters. Second was following through, and doing it--just doing it, that's all there is to it; we want it to be more than that, unfortunately. He's still working on that one. There's starting to be a trickle of water out of the dam. Third, he had to face the terrifying process of actually putting something out there. He started shipping 'stuff' with Perturbance, and there's definitely more to follow. Fourthly, he's continually mystified and confounded by the process of selling the 'stuff'. All he's really looking for is some brave ...more

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the lost novel

Well, I reached another milestone today. Writers do that, whether by intent or accident.

It's gone; gone for good I guess. I've still got the most important things, all those things based on love and belonging.

IT. . . was a nearly finished novel—wiped out completely. I did something stupid, and it disappeared never to be seen again. I'm assuming it was my stupidity. What is my stupid is that I hadn Read more of this blog post »

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Battle of the Round House (Magic & Mystery, #6)

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“We need to stop viewing our food as an industrial project and renew our view of it as a natural sustaining force.”
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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

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“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

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“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

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“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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