Author Archive: tyunglebower

How the Day After the Super Bowl is Symbolic for Writers

It’s possible to be a writer and also watch football. I am such a person. As such, I am still annoyed that such an atrocious call was made by Seattle at the end of the game last night to cost them the championship. (Which it almost certainly did.) Yet this is not a football blog. …

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Confessions of Nervousness

As I take the final steps toward publishing my novel, Flowers to Dionysus I admit I am a bit nervous. A certain nervousness I wouldn’t have experienced before I published Thank You For Ten last year. Last year when I launched my first ever self-published experience with that short anthology of short fiction, I had what I …

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Inspiration in a Hospital?

Not everyone that goes into a hospital is in grave danger, of course. Good things happens in hospitals too. Yet that doesn’t mean anyone particularly enjoys being a patient. Or waiting for a patient. Yet I found myself in that situation yesterday for several hours as a family member had an outpatient procedure performed. Still, …

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The Fear of Shelving

Last night is as close as I have come to shelving my current novel in progress. It may yet come to that. To begin with I started thinking that if I keep asking the question about continuing with this story at this time, that’s probably a strong indication that I shouldn’t continue. For more than …

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Yes, Out, No In, On and On

A few weeks ago I was at a chain restaurant. I was seated near the swinging double doors to the kitchen. From my angle I could only see one of them at first. Someone had posted the word “NO” on one of the doors with mail box letters. If I had to guess, I’d say …

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