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STORY BUILDING FROM THE BOTTOM UP

February 9, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Story building is something you learn through trial and error? Or learn from graduate programs and writing conferences? Or reading? Lots of Reading? Don’t be shocked to think it’s all of that and more. But, where to start? Why not the beginning?

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DEATH WISH? IT’S JUST A STAGE

February 7, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Death wish yourself into being a better person? “If I can’t be who I think I am I’d rather die.” Is that a wish, or a condition? I don’t know, but what I do know is ‘the end’ is the end. Most of the time.

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SURRENDER CELEBRATION FOR GIVING UP

February 5, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Surrender celebration starts after you’re done. Whatever it was you were working on, when it’s done, you’re done. You’re not going to make anything better at some point. That’s when you need to know how to walk away.

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WRITE POORLY FIRST, THEN WHAT?

January 31, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Write poorly on purpose? That’s the goal. Sounds foolish, but not if you do it with enthusiasm. Do it long enough and something happens. Let’s ask an expert what happens:

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SHOPPING INSPIRATIONS: THE RIGHT TIME

January 29, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Shopping inspirations happen, if you’re lucky, when you have money in your pocket. My shopping inspiration: ‘Buy one bottle of gas station champagne, get the second bottle half-price.’ That did it. Along with a box of hard seltzer with a six of trial-cider. What was I shopping for? A hangover?

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SHIFT TALKERS WORK OVERTIME

January 26, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Shift talkers like to mix it up, change things. Some do it for the better, some for the worse. They all have one thing in common: Not knowing how and when to shut up. For that we should be thankful?

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ANXIETY TODAY: WHAT IF . . . ?

January 22, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Anxiety today is nothing new, but plenty of new people experience it. First it’s one thing, then another, until it’s everything all the time. And it never slows down, never stops. Then what?

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SPORTS FAN HISTORY: SING IT OUT

January 17, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Sports fan used to be a grubby, sweaty, man who enjoyed watching other men do what they couldn’t do. His observations made him an expert to those who didn’t know sports, and an annoyance to those who did. Those were the good old days when men dressed in suits and ties, wore a hat, and […]

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WINNING NOW: PHIL KNIGHT vs JERRY JONES

January 16, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Winning now, right now, is more important the older you get. It’s like that when you have more seasons behind you than you do ahead. Phil Knight is eighty-five; Jerry Jones is eighty-one. Would it be too much to ask that they go out winners? First for the Ducks:

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DOWNER BEACH PLASTIC FOR BEACH TOWN

January 12, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Downer Beach shouldn’t be pretty. Neither should the beach town next to it. Whose problem is the plastic on a downer beach near a nice little tourist town? Whose problem?

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