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I have been laying cables for weeks. Got a crane to connect them to the first tower. Figured the load bearing with be quiet adequate. I know the material might seem a bit odd at first by after a while I think the average person with come around. I have an army of pigmies harvesting spigettie trees on the Marin slopes Everything is pasta, if those guys in Indonesia can build stuff out of bamboo why not angle hair. So what ya building Tom? I’m building Suspension to Disbelief Bridge. Thank goodness for that grant from the endowment for the arts.

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Write about what you truly love. Nice idea but I know for a fact the known universe can be easily divided into two groups: people who love cats and people given enough bullets would remove the kittyphiles from the general population. Is it wise business model to exclude half the possible purchasers. I thought about that for the better part of a minute and thought fuck-em. More stories about cat I say. I’m going to write the Great American Cat Novel no no A cat trilogy. The fellowship of the cat, the two litter boxes, return of the cat nip

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Some say an author must speak the truth. I say are you craze, if I wrote down half the stuff I’ve seen I’d be dead by morning and the pack with pitch folk and torches would be my immediate family. Lie, makeup stuff and bury anything some idiot family member thought was cute. I’m amazed in spite of amply warning my brother in law will leap over a river of fire to share something I know for a fact would: MAKE HIM LOOK STUPID. One day I’m just going to put in a book, name names and move to Paraguay

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The patrol car pulled me over. Sir you have been weaving down the road for the last 2 miles. Oh I can explain that I was writing and it’s hard to steer. Writing? I like to write when I drive and I need to get it down on paper or it’s gone. You write it down while your driving. Oh heavens no that would be a bit dangerous, I use a typewriter. It was just then that the highway patrolman saw the smith and corona sitting in the middle of steering wheel. He ticketed me for driving under the influence

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I showed my wife what I had written today. She asked me what I had done with my day. I said I wrote these stories. No, what I meant is what did you accomplish, get done. Done? I finished these. I’m amaze how many just flowed out onto the page. Then the smile appeared, the supportive, but quiet disappointed smile. I made her a bowl of soup. Tended the fire deep into the night until the glow remain even with the door shut. As she slept I found I had a story or two left to type by the firelight.

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If you give me 10 dollars I will draw your portrait. The relancatent spinster agreed. I followed her across Paris and was careful to keep my distance. I recorded the people she greeted and noted the people she avoided. After a time I found she never melted into a crowd. After a time I saw she never wasted a moment. At the end of the day I handed her my handiwork a single sheet of paper with no more that a 100 words. She smiled she sighed she frown and she cried. She opened her purse and handed me a 20.

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I am a thief. I steel bits of soul. I do it when you’re watching, but your not really watching. If you spent the proper amount of time noting me noting you you wouldn’t have time to actually be living. A bit of your soul fills my pages and you never feel the sting or the hurt. You may not recognize yourself if you met eye to eye. You’d chaff at the description, discount the motivation, and be baffled by the internal logic. Why couldn’t you clearly see the you as the you I see. I’m a very good thief.

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If actors are the opposite of people surely writers are the bastard children of accounts and merchant marines Doomed to walk the land in daylight searching for a honest story with a lantern of tin. Success is not in the quality of production it is in the strength to persevere when the quality alludes, when the words swirl like the dry ash of a long forgotten flame. We who live and die by the word are cursed with begins incalculable tightly tethered to the knowledge the ends we construct always fall far short of where we wish them to tower.

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Write what you know that’s the number one on the short list. I know pizza. I can calibrate an oven to 8 tens of a degree. I can tell you the different between Dakota flour to one milled in Texas. I spent six weeks culturing a Mozzarella starter in Palermo. I know Delmontego Inc is the only importer of Seduncken ruby tomatoes. I wrote an article for Pizza Monthly. The editor sent a personal letter back. He wrote: Seek Psychiatric Aid. Now