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leftbrainwrite
http://linda-leftbrainwrite.blogspot.com
Musings on writing and the mind...
- Added on: Aug 11th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Linda Simoni Wastila
- Listed in: Fiction Science
- Tags: fiction writing creativity psychiatry mind substance abuse
Recent Posts
Silver Bullet
I sit in back, behind your sycophants. Schizophrenic mouse brain cross-sections fill the projection screen. Your nasal drone bores me, so I surf the net. Of course, I know these data -- this is my work, my compound of which you talk. Spit gathers in ...
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, Part Deux: The Dzanc Write-a-Thon
I started off this year challenging you to put your money where your mouth is and read debut books published by independent presses. I walked my talk and bought, read, and reviewed 9 debut indy-pubbed books here on my wee bloggo. Along the way, I rea...
Stuff Those Stockings!
There's still some time to boost this year's economy, and what better way than buying a book for your favorite curmudgeon -- or yourself. Here's my top ten picks published this year.Indy Debut Fiction--Peter Selgin marries schizophrenia, filmography,...
End of the Line - #fridayflash
Eyes twitching from the wipers smearing snowflakes on the windshield, I leaned forward, following the head beams piercing a path through the dusk. At last I saw the mailbox marking our property. My economy rental turned up the gravel drive toward the...
His Name Was Bill
Too much work. Too many patients to keep track of. Three still in Infusion to see now, Number 72 first. Sure could use a coffee, something to eat, but that new nurse keeps paging me. So I’m late? Everyone here in the hospital is late. Not my fault ...
What I have learned this past week...
--Making up a hospital bed with a terminally ill person lying in it is a science--Managing pain is an art--Writing 50,000 words in one month is easy--Writing 50,000 words worth their paper is not--Eating meatballs and spaghetti on Thanksgiving Day is...
