Tag: Summer 2023
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On Writing & Storytelling: Looks Like the Fixes to ‘Reunion: A Story’ Are In! (An Update on the Updates)
A Soggy, Hot End to a Short Workweek It’s now midafternoon on Friday, July 7, 2023. It’s both hot (91°F/33°C) and rainy outside – the forecast was 100% accurate today – so even though it’s dark outside, I still feel the heat seeping through the wall at my stocking feet as I write this. I…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, July 2, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Third*
* Alternatively: On Writing & Storytelling: Grappling with Revisions and Uploads to Kindle Direct Publishing Hi there! It’s Sunday, July 2, 2023, and here in Lithia, Florida, it’s late morning. It’s also – no surprise there – a hot early summer day, and the second day of the long (and for me, dull and somewhat…
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On Writing & Storytelling: A Writer’s SITREP for a Busy Tuesday in June
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Blogging, CreateSpace Independent Publishing, Creative Writing, John Williams (Composer), John Williams: Greatest Hits 1969-1999, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, Music Reviews, Personal Thoughts, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Summer in Florida“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” ― Muriel Rukeyser It’s late afternoon in Lithia, Florida, on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Outside, it is a scorcher of an early summer day in the Tampa Bay area; as I start this, my second post for today, the temperature is 92°F/33°C, although with mostly sunny…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, June 25, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second*
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, All the Things You Are (Kern and Hammerstein), Amazon, Blogging, CreateSpace Independent Publishing, Creative Writing, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, Life in the Tampa Bay area, Life in the United States, Music, Personal Thoughts, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Summer in Florida* Also counts as an entry in the On Writing & Storytelling category with the title A Writer’s Dilemma – Solved! Hey, there! Well, it’s early afternoon here in Lithia, Florida, on Sunday, June 25, 2023 – the 73rd anniversary of the start of the Korean War (1950-53). Since it’s early summer (meteorological summer started…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Sorry, Folks…Working on the Novel Was Postponed on Account of Rain*
*And other mitigating factors. Rain, Pancakes, and Royalties It’s now late afternoon here in Lithia, Florida, on this dark, rainy, and even stormy Summer Solstice 2023. Currently, the temperature is 86°F/30°C with rain showers affecting our neighborhood. It’s so dark outside that I’ve had to turn on my bedroom lamp so I can see my…
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Musings & Thoughts for Wednesday, June 21, 2023, or: On Writing, Weather, and the Summer Solstice*
* Not necessarily in that order. Thunder in the Morning, Sunshine in the Afternoon Hi, there, Dear Reader. It’s late morning – almost midday, actually – here in Lithia, Florida, on Wednesday, June 21, 2023. It’s a warm (82°F/26°C) and soggy day in my corner of the Tampa Bay area. It’s also the summer solstice…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, June 18, 2023, or: Weekend Wrap-up, Part the First
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Amazon Music, Blogging, CreateSpace Independent Publishing, Creative Writing, Depression, East Wind Lake Village, Florida Weather, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, Life in the Tampa Bay area, Personal History, Personal Thoughts, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Summer in Florida, UncategorizedHi, there, Dear Reader. It’s midday (or almost midday) here in Lithia, Florida, on Sunday, June 18, 2023. As I begin this – my 240th blog post for 2023 and 1,140th overall – it is a hot (83°F/28°C) early summer day in the Tampa Bay area. Right now, there’s not a heckuva lot of sun…
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Musings & Thoughts for Wednesday, May 31, 2023: Adieu, Spring – And a Writer’s Anxieties Come to the Fore
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in 4K UHD Blu-rays, Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Atlantic Hurricane Season 2021, Blu-ray Collection, Books, CreateSpace Independent Publishing, Creative Writing, Family History, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, Love, Sex, & Relationships, Movies, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Personal History, Personal Thoughts, Reunion: A Story, Spring in Florida, Star Trek: The Original 6-Movie Collection, The New StoryAdieu to Spring 2023 “Is it so small a thing To have enjoy’d the sun, To have liv’d light in the spring, To have lov’d, to have thought, to have done; To have advanc’d true friends, and beat down baffling foes…?” ― Matthew Arnold, Empedocles On Etna and Other Poems It’s late morning here in…
A Certain Point of View, Too 