Cedar's Mountain

Squeal Like A Pig, But Don't Forget To Add A Little Rhythm

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:56:00 +0000

Yes boys and girls, it's time to squeal like a pig. And no I don't mean like the scene from Deliverance, but more like when your friendly neighborhood bill collector comes by and says, "My friend, you are very late with your payment, so I must introduce you to my little cousin Wilbur." and Wilbur happens to be six foot five and built like a freight train. Only in this case, the bill collector...

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Who Reads What And Why

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:12:00 +0000

The Wall Street Journal is read by people who run the country. The New York Times is read by people who think they run the country. The Washington Post is read by people who think they should run the country. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't really understand the Washington Post. They do, however, like their smog statistics shown in pie...

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Not Writey Tighty?

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:53:00 +0000

It's funny how the old adage "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't" gets hammered home repeatedly when you're a writer. Doesn't matter if you're a newbie, a semi-newbie like myself or even an established writer, we all have come across items/companies that on the surface, look to be good/legit, but upon further research, really aren't. This particular point was reaffirmed...

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A Chuckle A Day Keeps The Doldrums Away!

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:30:00 +0000

No real post to speak of today, since I'll be one of the multitude watching Stupor Bowl XLVI and rooting for the Patriots to kick some Giant ass. However, since I won't be watching the pre-pre-pre-pre or pre-pre-pre or pre-pre or pre game show, I'll be needing something to occupy my time. In other words, writing. Since I'll be attempting to do some writing and thus being...

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Crazy Driver, But A Damn Good Joe

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:12:00 +0000

Back in the day when I was but a lad of sixteen, I had an incredible adventure, the likes of which no one with any kind of brains had ever experienced before. And get your mind out of the gutter. Since we torpedoed the obvious, you're now left scratching your head wondering what exactly was that incredible adventure that I had. Well, that adventure was....drum roll please. Getting my...

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This Needs Editing?

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:19:00 +0000

My particular problem that I need a little help on has to do with editing, specifically, my novel "Line 21", of which you will find at my other blog, the chapter in question, all five pages of it. I finally found some free time over the weekend to pull out the chapter in question and briefly skim through the parts that the editor had some questions on, and to be honest with everyone, I'm a...

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Sometimes, The Best Laid Plans...

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:29:00 +0000

...Are laid to waste much in the same manner as Sherman's March to the Sea. Take this weekend for example (please, take it off my hands). I decided to do the following writing oriented things: 1} finish novella 2} work on the suggested edits to my novel Line 21 Had all the prep work set. I was going to do another round of edits on the novella with the main idea of continuing where I had...

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Friends? What Are These "Friends" That People Talk About?

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:46:00 +0000

Disclaimer: The post that you're about to read is strictly a general observational post as it applies to me. You should not assume otherwise, because you know, I really want you to be my neighbor. Hi neighbor! I officially walked into the cyber world and started my second life as a majorly skewed life form in February 2007. I can't tell you the exact day was because I actually have no...

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The Story Of One Bull Pup

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:13:00 +0000

While the basement was going through a little housecleaning, I happened to find a copy of an old newspaper story that I had photocopied during my days working at the library, which I would like to share with everyone today. The story was first published back in 1901 and its a perfect example of what passed for humor back then. Hope you find it as funny as I originally did back when I'd first...

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Rejection! But Wait, There's More!

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:36:00 +0000

I don't handle rejection very well. However, when you're executing the craft of writing to the best of your ability, rejection is one key component of that craft. So over the course of the past five years, I've learned to develop a very thick skin when it comes to someone (usually an editor) rejecting a story of mine. As most other writers have stated time and time again, the rejection is...

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And Your Excuse Is What?

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:52:00 +0000

Well, ya see, my excuse for not writing what you expect to see here, which is mainly a post of substance, is that I had a pretty busy and slightly messed up week. To whit: 1} Computer was out of commission from Monday thru Wednesday, as I finally gave in and bought 2GB's worth of memory. The only computer I had at my disposal was the household, and in two days, reverted back to my old habit...

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Exploring Rhythm And Melody

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:24:00 +0000

No, we're not exploring Big Audio Dynamite today, but we are exploring rhythm and melody. For those of you who have been seriously long term readers of this blog (like since 2009), you may remember my very first foray into writing fiction with blatant sex in it. The story itself was inspired by the song Dani California by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Now, even though the Peppers came to...

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What's The Word Of Today?

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:51:00 +0000

The word of today is "progress". It may be only incremental, but it's progress just the same. So let's talk about the types of progress that I've made in the past month with my writing. Blackness In The White Sand I've made only minimal progress on this particular novella, in that I'd only gotten about three pages written in the past three weeks. On the positive side, I finally figured...

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Riddle Me This And Riddle Me That

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:18:00 +0000

I had a very brutal five days this week, so the only thing I was able to come up with was this moldy oldy e-mail from eight years ago. After the long, miserable spring we had here in the great Northeast, we finally had a nice sunny, warm day. It happened to coincide with my 12 year old son being home from school on summer vacation. I asked him if he wanted to go for a ride, and he said, "Not...

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Without The Attitude Adjustment, "Customer Service" Is Simply Two Nouns Strung Together

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:59:00 +0000

Customer service. It's a topic that's near and dear to me and it's one that I've touched upon in the past three and a half years on this blog. Usually I talk about the bad and never about the good. This time, I would like to talk about how a large business can produce both good and bad at the same time. "G, that's completely impossible. How can you have good and bad at the same...

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Moving At The Fantastic Speed Of Slow

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:40:00 +0000

This post was inspired by this post written by this kewl blogger Flashback time. Early 80's, when I had hair, gas was about $1.25 per gallon, there were three grades of gas: regular, no lead and super and I was a newbie driver at the tender age of 22 (yes, I got my driver's license late. It also took me three tries, but that's another story for another time). Car of...

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New Music Does A Body Good

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:31:00 +0000

Over the long holiday weekend, I picked up three c.d.'s with my B&N gift card: "Swordfishtrombones" by Tom Waits; "El Camino" and "Chulahoma" by The Black Keys. "El Camino" will be the focus of today's music review. I was first introduced to this group and this particular c.d. by noted writer/musician (click here for a song by his group American Falcon)/blogger Chris LaTray, who had posted...

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To Be Continued

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:11:00 +0000

"Hi ho! Allow me to introduce myself! I is Brown Bear, and I's be the official spokesman for the owner of this blog, G. Without further ado, let's get down to the main purpose of this post." "What should I do next with my blog?" was the question that G had asked himself in last Friday's (12/30) post, and of which he spent the long holiday weekend thinking about. To refresh everyone's memory, G...

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What Is The Word That I'm Looking For?

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:20:00 +0000

What is the word that I'm looking for? It's.....right there, not quite on the tip of my tongue, but definitely right there at the tip of my frontal lobe. Wait a minute....wait a minute...let me just pick up this two by four and...now for my best interpretation of a t.v. character, may I present to you.....drum roll please.... Colonel Flagg! WHACK! WHACK! WHACK! WHACK! There we go, a nice...

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A Most Refreshing Bath Was Had By All

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:51:00 +0000

Boy was that an overly long soak. Five days spent in the bathtub and I is the pruniest prune that you'd even seen. Anyways, it was a most refreshing break from the blogging world and since I need to fill up this space with excess verbiage, to quote Ralph Kiner, let's go to the happy recrap. Christmas was interesting simply because I didn't get any clothes this year. What I did get was the...

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It's Cuervo Time!

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:16:00 +0000

It is rare that I complain about a plethora of things all in one shot. Usually I complain about one thing at a time on this blog, then move on. However, this week has been, to put it bluntly, a bitch. Between being on pins and needles about waiting for a positive result from something I did last week and dealing with the fruition of Monday's post (Monday thru Wednesday I answered about 75...

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No Longer A Newbie, But He's Making Strides

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:28:00 +0000

Betrayed! A few weeks ago, I brought a dozen copies of my self-pubbed chapbook to work so that I could kick off a new sales/marketing campaign for the new year and thus sell a few copies. There are two reasons as to why I'm doing this: 1) enough time has gone by and I believe that most people have forgotten about my first self-pubbed book, and 2) I'm slowly re-tooling and re-loading...

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Y times Z times 1 1/2 equals 0

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:08:00 +0000

No, this isn't some new math formula pulled from one of my daughter's homework assignments. This is a math formula that was pulled from this year's state budget. For those of you who are unfortunate enough to live in Connecticut, what I'm about to say is depressingly familiar, so please bear with me as I bring everyone else up to speed. This year we elected a Democratic guv'nor who...

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Question

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:48:00 +0000

Yup, it's a rare Saturday post. Well, not so much a post as simply a question for you the reader. I've been thinking about developing the very last disposable camera that I used for Shooting Suburbia and posting it. However, there are a couple of things that you should know. 1} I have no clue what's on it. 2} The pictures were shot sometime when the temperatures were between 60 and 90...

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Daddy?

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:53:00 +0000

"Daddy?" "Yes, sweetie. What's Up?" "Can I ask you a question?" He pauses for a moment, then says, "Sure." "Why did that driver give you the finger?" "What driver was that?" "The one that you cut off when you were pulling out of the parking lot." "Sweetie, I didn't cut anyone off." "You didn't?" "No. I was simply going around another car who was undecided on which way to go." "So...

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