NOT KEEPING SCORE

When someone dies, there are so many things you don’t think you have to think about; and of course you have no capacity to think. This is the stuff I have been trying to think about.
The coroner’s office was closed for the Thanksgiving weekend, so for the first few days all we did was stumble […]

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Sometimes there is nothing to say. Sometimes there is nothing to write.
My brother died suddenly this past week.
He didn’t call Tuesday for my father’s birthday; I made a mental note to chide him when I saw him later that week. When Thursday arrived, I called to ask him when he thought he would make […]

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An update on the progress of my novel for National Novel Writing Month, where I aim to write 50,000 words in 30 days:
Wordcount = 0!
That’s right… aside from a power-driven first day of 1100 words, which I subsequently erased with writerly desperation in the next, there has been no progress whatsoever in my attempt at […]

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and I’m giving it another go this year. Wanna join me? Click here.
And, in the meantime, while I’m trying to make 1,700 words per day and get over jetlag, I’ll be posting more stories from Vietnam.
Cheers.

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