writing rants
If I Won the Lottery
Image via WikipediaAnother blog I linked up to thru Twitter put up a cool question, surely one of the generic but eternally interesting ones. What if you won ten million dollars? Every one who buys a lottery ticket buys the chance to run down that pleasant mental lane, at least until they check the numbers. … Continue reading
February Start Up – 2008
I used to write every day. Sometimes whether I liked it or not, I would put pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, or work up some lyrics in my head. Got this tune in my head, sir Got this tune in my head, Only way to get it out is to write it down instead… … Continue reading
Toys
Toys Almost every place I ever visited as a child is defined in some ways by the toys that were there for me to play with. Every relative’s home, office I visited, restaurant, even schools and churches, had their own set of toys to play with. Maybe it is part of my generation, or an … Continue reading
Nanowrimo 2007
It was only a couple days ago that I realized Nanowrimo was coming up, meaning it is almost November, and that I need to begin deciding what I want to attempt to write a novel about this time. Right now, I am thinking about writing one around the theme and characters of The Mark of … Continue reading
Funeral Parties
A few weeks ago I wrote this out about going to funerals, in a stretch where I am probably beginning to face mortality. Right now, in the wake of several deaths of my peers, I am looking hard at life, and crazy-grateful for the turn it has taken over the last few years. For the … Continue reading
Alcohol…Good for the Writer’s Soul
Alcohol, and the way we drink it, or don’t drink it, or observe it, is one of the most important character traits for a writer to notice. Is this true? For many years, as I’ve pushed through troubles caused by alcohol, been forced to get treatement for alcohol consumption, and am still reminded daily of … Continue reading
Cho Seung-Hui, Poster Boy for Censorship?
Cho Seung-Hui, I won’t commit his name to memory or learn to pronounce it, but everyone knows who he is, at least for a month or two, the psychopath that killed more than 30 people in Blacksburg Virginia, on the Virginia Tech campus. As this tragedy is dissected in the national media, including the countless … Continue reading
Welcome to Meta4man’s Blog
Hi, if this is your first time here, how ya doin’? If you know me, glad you finally made it here, told ya, if you don’, you will. This page is for my fiction. Read it all. If you’re not up for full on creepy fiction, I have a different web page, Meta4worlds on Blogger … Continue reading
And the Train Takes Another…
There is a train track running straight through the heart of my hometown. Put there during the steel age it might once have been a center of commerce, a contact to the coast of Lake Michigan and all the wealth it brought to the mid-west through Chicago. – the start of a the Steel Serpent … Continue reading
2007 – A Year For Writing
I guess my Nano hangover lasted a month. I’ve been writing, just not here. All things considered, I still want to keep up this blog, which is the heart of my writing. Lately I have drug out some old characters, which remain only in my mind. Jonathan Brinkman, the misfit that solved the riddle of … Continue reading
Nanowrimo
