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WRITING ROOM: FROM FAMILY ROOM TO SICK ROOM AND BACK

March 10, 2021 by David Gillaspie

A writing room is any room where writing is done. It’s a bedroom, a classroom, or living room. It could be a bar or coffee house; a bus or train. Some writing rooms belong to writers who need ‘consistency of place’ to be productive. How can you be sure your writing room is right for […]

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INDEPENDENT BLOGGERS: SENSE AND NONSENSE

October 23, 2020 by David Gillaspie

Independent bloggers, stand alone writers who post non-viral content, look at numbers. Without the numbers, the follows, the likes and comments, they feel worthless. If you’ve ever spent time around a whiny blogger, you know the story. Not enough hits, not enough social engagement, not enough validation for them to continue. Eventually, they give their […]

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BASIC WRITER QUESTION: WHY BOTHER

July 13, 2020 by David Gillaspie

The best writer question is the one they ask themselves before starting their daily word haul. It’s a question writers never want readers to ask, so they ask themselves: Why bother? Here’s why:

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WRITERS WORK TO EXPLAIN WITHOUT BEING A JERK

May 29, 2020 by David Gillaspie

Writers work, readers read, and somewhere between the two an agreement happens. Sometimes the agreement includes a reader who stops reading while the writer keeps writing. That’s what writers do. Readers look for the next story, something more worthy of their time. Then this happened:

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WRITING LIFE LOOKS FOR SMOKING WRITERS

May 5, 2020 by David Gillaspie

Do people in the writing life smoke to show they’d rather die than change bad habits? Or maybe they secretly want to lose a few pounds, although Joan Didion may disagree. The writing life? Please. I hear that and think of droopy people sitting around typewriters with a pipe or cigarette stuck in their face. […]

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LOVE RULES ON PORTLAND PARK BLOCKS AND BLACK HEARTS

March 4, 2020 by David Gillaspie

It was a dark and stormy night for love rules? No, not stormy, but dark, and I was in a certain space somewhere between regret and remorse. So maybe it was stormy after all, my own little shower of despair. It started with a conversation inside a Willamette Writers meeting, which is always a challenge. […]

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DECADE ENDS IN SOFT TALK, HARD TRUTHS

December 26, 2019 by David Gillaspie

Me: This decade ends the best of times and worst of times. Them: Did you just make that up, or are you finally going to admit to stealing from Charles Dickens? Me: Writers don’t steal, they borrow. Them: Like the time you borrowed a notebook from Payless in Pony Village?

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CALIFORNIA JAM FROM 18 TO 62

August 25, 2019 by David Gillaspie

What was the hot ticket in 1974? California Jam. Just ask anyone who says they were there. It was the West Coast Woodstock without the brown acid, Altamont without the murder. Just a nice gathering after all the dust settled and music took a turn. My wife found her ticket to […]

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THE BOOK OF YOU THIS TIME

March 5, 2019 by David Gillaspie

Who can predict the future? There’s no book that tells the tale. If you know someone who says they can predict the future, feel free to ignore them. This blog doesn’t come from the future, it’s right now. Maybe a little history of days past mixed in, but it always circles back to today. Now. […]

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Dylan Song For 2018 Mid-Term Elections

August 17, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don’t stand in the doorway Don’t block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There’s a battle outside And it is ragin’. It’ll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin’.

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WRITING ROOM: FROM FAMILY ROOM TO SICK ROOM AND BACK

BASIC WRITER QUESTION: WHY BOTHER

WRITING LIFE LOOKS FOR SMOKING WRITERS

LOVE RULES ON PORTLAND PARK BLOCKS AND BLACK HEARTS

DECADE ENDS IN SOFT TALK, HARD TRUTHS

CALIFORNIA JAM FROM 18 TO 62

THE BOOK OF YOU THIS TIME

Dylan Song For 2018 Mid-Term Elections

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