Tag: #ReunionCoda
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On Writing & Storytelling: My Tentative Plans for Writing Today…and Other Related Matters
I’m a writer. I have been a writer for a long time. I may not be commercially successful yet, but I have two published books on Amazon, and I have gotten paid for my work on various websites, and my blogs both bring in ad revenue. But…for those people out there who insist otherwise, here’s…
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On Writing & Storytelling: My Novel-Writing Journey Continues…Slowly but Surely
Late Afternoon, Monday, August 14, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. I’m back to give you a quick update on my daily writing journey and the progress of my first novel, Reunion: Coda. First, as expected, the weather was typical “Florida mean season” stuff. It was sunny and hot for much of the morning, then turned…
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, August 14, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Third – and My Writing Plan for Today
Late Morning, Monday, August 14, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. It’s yet another simmering midsummer day here in the Tampa Bay area. According to my computer’s Weather app, the temperature outside is 87°F/31°C under sunny conditions. With humidity at a sticky 70% and a south-southeasterly breeze blowing at 6 MPH/10 KMH, the heat index is…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, August 13, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second – Hot as Hell Edition
Midday/Early Afternoon, Sunday, August 13, 2023, Lithia, Florida “An’ the dawn comes up like thunder outer China ‘crost the Bay!” – Rudyard Kipling, The Road to Mandalay The Tampa Bay area is nowhere near Mandalay, Burma. Nor is it across the Bay from China, for that matter. But summers here – as well as in…
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, August 12, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the First – Hellishly Hot Edition
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Amazon Music, Amazon Prime Video, Computer and Video Games, Creative Writing, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, MicroProse Software, Movies, Personal Thoughts, Regiments (2022), Regiments: Iron Curtain, Reunion Duology, Reunion: Coda, Summer in FloridaLate Morning/Early Afternoon, Saturday, August 12, 2023, Lithia, Florida Another Hellishly Sweltering Day in the Summer of ‘23 Hi, there. Well, here we are again, on a stifling midsummer day in Florida, starting one of those weird “meh” weekends where I must figure out if I’m going to take the day off from working on…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Looks Like Today is Editing & Revising Day!
Afternoon, Friday, August 11, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, Dear Reader. I’m off to a distressingly late start to the last working day of the week. I didn’t sleep late; I woke up between 6:30 and 7:30 in the morning, and I usually publish my daily WordPress blog around noon. But I went to bed later…
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On Writing & Storytelling: ‘Reunion: A Story’ – The Naming of Characters, and Musical Influences
Questions & Answers about Reunion: A Story Since I self-published my novella Reunion: A Story five summers ago, I am sometimes asked by readers whether the story of Jim and Marty (and Mark!) is based on real events, who Marty really was based on, what inspired me to write Reunion, and whether there will be…
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On Writing & Storytelling: The Facts Behind the Fiction in ‘Reunion: A Story’
Five summers ago – seems like it was a lifetime ago – I decided to self-publish Reunion: A Story, a novella I wrote in stages between 1986 and 1998, through Amazon’s CreateSpace Independent Publishing division (now Kindle Direct Publishing). It wasn’t my first self-published work; that would be my collection of movie reviews originally written…
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, August 7, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Third (and… Some Remarks About My Writing for the Day)
Late Morning, Monday, August 7, 2023, Lithia Hi, everyone. Well, here I am, still bleary-eyed, sleepy, and unusually tired on another simmering midsummer day in the Tampa Bay area. And, of course, it’s Monday, which means that after taking it easy for the entire weekend – at least as far as working on Reunion: Coda…
A Certain Point of View, Too 