There’s a recent TV commercial that shows people listening to audiobooks, and as they listen, the story comes to life around them. A woman on the beach listens to a science fiction story and her surroundings alter into an inter-planetary landscape. A young man caught up in a historical novel looks up to see his…
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Let us write, let us write, let us write!
Oh, the weather outside is frightful But the tale inside’s delightful! And since we’re so erudite Let us write, let us write, let us write! ‘Tis the season for holidays and gifts and snowfalls. We just emerged from a powerful storm, and are facing more as we approach the new year. The ski areas are…
Over the Hills and Far Away
A report from South Dakota: Cool Writers, A Controversy and a Rock Star Deadwood, South Dakota is 385 miles north of Denver. You shoot straight through Cheyenne, parallel the eastern border of Wyoming and watch trains tugging their long snakes of coal. The road climbs east through the Black Hills. In late September, gold aspen…