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    Emotional Rescue

    By Cole Matthews

    Ahhhh!  The plot is thickening.  The characters have developed perfectly.  You have balanced your pace so there is riveting action, informative scene setting, and a richness to your tableau.  Everything seems to be going so well, and yet, your beta reader drops a bomb on you.  "It's just falling flat."   What are you supposed to do?  Where do you turn?  How can you enrich and round out your characters?  How about a little emotional rescue?  Let's try filling in the back story of y
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jamessavik's Blog

Mercury Messenger

NASA's Messenger (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging) probe made its first fly-by of Mercury today and over the next few months will settle into orbit for an extended study of the planet.   Messenger is the first probe to visit Mercury since Mariner 10 back in 1975.   Because of its position in the solar system, Mercury is very unique planet. Constantly seared by heat and radiation from the sun, the chemistry of Mercury has been skewed. All of the volitile elements
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Duane's Depressed

I don't know how many of you have read Larry McMurtry's final installment of the Thalia trilogy, which began with The Last Picture Show and Texasville, but like Duane Moore, I am now sans motor vehicle.   I will not be driving for at least the next month; or, until the little green men stop jumping out in front of the vehicle.   I went to a therapist today and I'm on the road to recovery, yet again.   The Celexa is causing a lot of yawning and drowsiness and I'm only taking a half dose. I'
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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Viv's Blog

so, at dinner tonight...

We were eating, and my son does this snap thing with his fingers while having some ridiculous, but harmless, one-upping contest with my daughter and Rich says, "Was that a gay snap? Like, is that one of his OGT's?"   So this is me tattling on him for using an acronym properly and knowing what it means   Then we had to discuss the difference in snaps, like 50's jive snapping versus the 'FABULOUS' snap... and it was just really f**king funny!   Besides that... Steve got irate on my behalf
viv

viv

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blogage

Finding the Good

I lie to myself, with all my assertions that i am happy. Do not get me wrong I am for the most part, but saying I am happy and not mentioning some of the things that really bother me is, in itself, a form of fibbing no? I'm currently sitting in a broom closet of an office at a Job I have grown to dispise over the last several months. There where promises, and then out right lies.   Evrything has boiled down to the point where everything I, or the rest of the management team, do is second gues
shadowgod

shadowgod

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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Still depressed

So, this is the deal, "I'm still depressed."   Also, "I'm not driving."   If we need to go anywhere, the wife does the driving. Quite frankly, I'm scared to death I might veer off and do something stupid.   I'm going to a therapist Monday morning. Hopefully, we'll be able to determine whether I should stay away from the big trucks for awhile.   I'm also very tired and I'm having trouble writing on the Kevin project, which I need to be working on because The Pastel Cowboy is almost finish
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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Blog Archive

Constitution v Law

In seeking to find out information concerning the legal status of an immigrant to the united states who marries someone of the same sex in Massachusetts, I came across this section of the US legal code which rather perplexed me....  
Demetz

Demetz in Demetz

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Vic's Blog

Wow...Annoying

Wow, during all my time here at GA, I don't think I've ever felt this annoyed about the number of posts that have been appearing that don't add any value to the threads they're part of.   I'm no saint, and I'm sure I've been guilty of a post going off topic or one that really doesn't add value, but the amount of chaff nowadays is overwhelming what little wheat there is hidden in the threads.   When I'd hear complaints in the past about other posts or posters, I'd usually tell other members
NaperVic

NaperVic

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Joe's Blog

Redneck Cheesehead?

So I've decided to move back to Missouri once again at the end of the school year. I talked to my mom and told her I was basically miserable here and couldn't stand going to a school that I hated where I didn't learn anything. She agreed to let me go to UMKC next year and major in Computer Science instead. The only downside is that I'll have to live at home for at least a little while until I can save up enough to move out. Of course, I'm not going to tell her I plan on moving out until I do it,
JSmith

JSmith

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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Down

I hate being between antidepressants. It's so depressing.   I have no energy. I have little interest.   Yet, I did work on my first 2008 anthology story. It's almost done. I wanted to get it out of the way. I think most of it was done when the Wellbutrin was still active. It's gone, now, and I've been on Celexa for two days, but not long enough to make a difference.   The Kevin project has turned in a practical rewrite. I wrote a prologue that redefines the character and I think makes him
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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Viv's Blog

getting textual and save a horse, ride a cowboy...

So Joey is the man today. My hero! The one with the gigantic... brain that he uses for good and not evil... mostly I made a myspace a while back so I could see pictures of my nephew, but I hardly ever use it, and when I showed it to Jeff, he said it was girly... which I am, and it was... so anyway, I tried to make it cooler looking and ended up screwing it all up... big surprise so I talked my cowboy into fixing it for me. Then he said, "lol what the hell did you do to this?" Which goes to sh
viv

viv

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jamessavik's Blog

Movie Madness

Once upon a time movies were original. Many were adaptations of novels, short stories or plays. Sadly- times have changed.   Many of todays movies are regurgitations of successful movies of yesterday.   This Christmas season, there were four BIG movies that were re-writes in part or in total. The one that did the best, Will Smith's I Am Legend was a post-apocalyptic horror story, re-did Charlton Heston's Omega Man of the seventies which was in turn based on a novel. Wil Smith's version of th
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Back to Celexa

I called my doctor today and we had a telephone consultation because he's the best doctor in the clinic and you have to be practically bleeding from several wounds to get a same day appointment with him. I figure we could do all the necessary shit over the phone. It helps, too, that, while he is probably only a few years older than me, he's not all that cute, but he isn't uncute either, but he's not my kind of guy, sort of.   Okay, I don't have the hots for my doctor, but I could, maybe.   H
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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Chronicles of My Life

Prejudice

I do not see you as a colour.   I do not care where you were born.   I respect your religion but I will not think about you in terms of it.   I do not judge you based on the neighbourhood you live in.   I am sensitive of your disability but I will not exclude you because of it, nor will I allow you to use it as a permanent excuse.   I will not respect you any more or less solely because of your education level.   I will assume responsibility of exactly one half of all communica
AFriendlyFace

AFriendlyFace

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Skywriting

A little black rain cloud

A few entries ago, I identified California's seasons as being: Tourist, Fire, Holiday Shopping, and Mudslide. Lo and behold, a mere week after the last throes of shopping had faded, the sky opens up and drops more rain on us in two days than we've had in the last six months.   I was supposed to go visit my parents this "weekend" (which, this week, was today and yesterday), but tmy parents live in a rural area. An area that is pristine in its natural beauty, and has roads that flood out at the
B1ue

B1ue

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jamessavik's Blog

Jokes in really bad taste

Q: What was the last thing to go through Pakistani oppisition leader Benazir Bhutto's mind when she was killed by a suicide bomber?   A: Her hubcaps.     A man was riding in the back of his limousine when he saw a man eating grass by the roadside. He ordered his driver to stop and he got out to investigate. "Why are you eating grass?" he asked the man.   "I don't have any money for food," the poor man replied.   "Oh, please come to my house!"   "But sir, I have a wife and four
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

The lost blog

Yesterday morning before leaving Corning, CA, I wrote a blog entry, but when I checked last night it wasn't here.   So, either I didn't hit the right button and zoned out or the entry went to that place commonly referred to by techies as, "it's not supposed to do that." When you don't know blame the machine.   Frankly, I think, due to my current state of unmind, that I destroyed the entry on my own. Things are not as they should be. I'm beginning to lose track of time. And, my decision makin
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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What once was is now lost.

Thought I'd Share!

*note* I'm easily amused when im stressed out and tired... Proof? Read below! Warning use of bad wors below, all Jack's fault!     Me: Now go finish writing your story asshole   Me: I demand more Me: DEMAND Me: Pretty please Jack : hehe its on my desktop Jack: waiting...   Me : I'll bake you cookies Me : yummy yummy cookies..... Jack : buy me a car   Me : Buy me a house Jack : buy me a cock   Me : Love to Me : size? Me : Cut or uncut?   Me : hmm color? Jack : hmmm   Jac
Meeko

Meeko

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Nymphetamine Abuse

MSN, Finances, And Villainy

Okay, so how's it going, guys? My MSN list is officially a wasteland. Once upon a time, I could sign in and have wondrously meaningful and interesting or at least just random funny conversations at any time of day or night. Now... there is never a soul online. I have like five people that I ever speak to, and everyone else is just... gone. My solution: greeneyeliner39429@hotmail.com, come entertain me sometime. Yah, random, but I like having people to talk to and I like being social someti
Razor

Razor

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jamessavik's Blog

US vs Canada

Head to head, the US can't stand on the same field as Canada.   For health care, human rights, progressive vision, a population that understands and supports the value of diversity and dismisses religious fanatics and bigotry: Canada has it all over the US.   This is one match the US had better sleaze its way out of of they'll be reminded what an embarrassment that they really are: the spoiled wretched weak children of strong parents who deserved better: trading freedom for fear, looting the
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Myr's Corner

2008 already?

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had fun. Is it really 2008 so soon? I am really starting to feel old! I'm now only 4 months out from turning 31. Yikes! I never figured I'd get this far.   There are a great number of things that I would like to get to this year. There is just so much stuff to do. Writing, site stuff, work, looking for work...   I'm getting a little tired of the same old boring routine. But I'm not sure I want to get out of the routine either.   Ugh.   Here's to
Myr

Myr in Life

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Chronicles of My Life

Still together but alone again

So I've been having a really wonderful few weeks!!   Incredibly awesome actually! Everything's going well and I've been having a blast!   Something interesting happened yesterday that made me feel a bit like I was in a sitcom. As I mentioned in my comments in the last blog, my best friend had kinda sorta started seeing this guy. It was confusing, and the other guy didn't really know what he wanted. Meanwhile, I'd been kinda, sorta seeing this cute Japanese boy *cues Vapors song* Actual
AFriendlyFace

AFriendlyFace

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