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Colin Fleming
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Many Moments More


Thoroughness
Sunday 7/17/22 * I awoke not in pain, but with soreness under my arms from the push-ups. I'll have to continue to do the reps until that...
Jul 17, 20227 min read


"So Ugly," short story excerpt
Sunday 7/17/22 “Incredible, absolutely incredible,” people were known to say when they saw just how ugly Gaely was. Some would exclaim...
Jul 17, 20223 min read


...and the smell of gunsmoke!
Sunday 7/17/22 I'm going to discuss Gunsmoke the radio show in general and the following five episodes in particular on the radio on...
Jul 17, 20222 min read


Controlling the rodent population
Saturday 7/16/22 Something I've learned and live: It takes a truly good and honorable person to do right by a person of greatness when...
Jul 16, 20228 min read


Easier
Saturday 7/16/22 Put together a proposal for a book on Thoreau Friday morning. I have two different ideas for Thoreau books. I will write...
Jul 16, 202213 min read


Okay work
Thursday 7/14/22 Okay work today. Formal work on the short stories "Carlyle," "I Don't Think We Should Be Doing This," "White Wizard...
Jul 14, 20224 min read


"The Number One Cause of Death," short story excerpt
Thursday 7/14/22 The number one cause of death for beavers are falling trees. The number one cause of death for squirrels is getting run...
Jul 14, 20225 min read


"I Don't Think We Should Be Doing This," short story excerpt
Thursday 7/14/22 I don't think we should be doing this. Heart beats, shirt moves. Could throw up. I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD BE DOING THIS....
Jul 14, 20223 min read


"White Wizard Summer," short story excerpt
Thursday 7/14/22 There was a wizard who wrote a song called "Ugly Girls Have Vaginas 2." He titled it that way because he loved Prince....
Jul 14, 20224 min read


This blog kills frauds, bigots, sexists, racists, and cowards
Thursday 7/14/22 Remember how Woody Guthrie painted This Machine Kills Fascists on his guitar? I liked that. Wrote a story Monday morning...
Jul 14, 20229 min read


Vanity Fair texts
Thursday 7/14/22 C: See this? It's from Vanity Fair. Just a random spot where my eyes fell. C: See the double "to her"? That's bad...
Jul 14, 20221 min read


Annoyances
Thursday 7/14/22 I had a nightmare last night. I was in college, about to graduate. My father was still alive. There were so many books...
Jul 14, 20224 min read


Sports stopgap
Wednesday 7/13/22 I have far more important things to get up on here, which are in various stages of development, but I don't want to...
Jul 13, 20224 min read


Saws
Saturday 7/9/22 * Was pointed out to me today that I have large circles under my eyes, which this person attributed to lack of sleep. I...
Jul 9, 20223 min read


Be a tree, not a stump
Saturday 7/9/22 * On Facebook, people who are bad at writing post screenshots of their book deals. These screenshots contain the...
Jul 9, 20229 min read


Regather
Friday 7/8/22 * Let's wrap things up here for the week, get ready to create and fight next week. * This morning I wrote an entire 3000...
Jul 8, 20222 min read


Novel excerpt: from The Year of Doing Nothing and Everything
Thursday 7/7/22 *** Saturday, January 1. Someone once said (don’t ask me who) that to stare at a white page upon which you intend to...
Jul 7, 202214 min read


Still some tense people
Wednesday 7/6/22 Have a headache, but the News section is finally up to date. Hooray. That was a pain. Go to the News section on the...
Jul 6, 20223 min read


Morning letter
Wednesday 7/6/22 Colin: I read the "Guns, publishing, graves" post on the blog. The blog is savage and beautiful fire lately. "Fitty"...
Jul 6, 20221 min read


Travels with C-Dawg
Tuesday 7/5/22 I have been working on updating the News section, which has been slow going. There is just a lot to get up. Nowhere near...
Jul 5, 20224 min read


Guns, publishing, graves
Tuesday 7/5/22 A few things very quickly before I give myself over to my work and the war I am in. Yesterday as I was coming back from...
Jul 5, 202212 min read


"The Difference Between," short story excerpt
Monday 7/4/22 The difference between being a pussy and a bitch is if the pussy gets beat up—and we’re being metaphorical here, and not...
Jul 4, 20225 min read


Hit
Monday 7/4/22 Get yourself a box seat. Lance Olsen, Bradford Morrow, Anitra Budd and Lizzie Davis of Coffee House Press, Sarah Gorham of...
Jul 4, 20227 min read


Everything wrong with publishing: Kara Rota of Chicago Review Press
Monday 7/4/22 Chicago Review Press is a mid-level press in, as one would expect, Chicago. They have an editor named Kara Rota who...
Jul 4, 20223 min read
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