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International Biodiversity Day. This year, the theme is "Biodiversity, Development and Poverty Alleviation." Good luck, I say. Good luck. Here we stand, in the latter days of the Holocene Extinction Event, at the dawn of the Anthropocene. It's hard to hold out much hope for the preservation of biodiversity. We're losing too many species
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It's good to see you more and more comfortable with Providence and the Northeast. I read your blog your entire previous length of time in Atlanta, and I didn't sense comfort with the place. (Plus there's no threat of pink houses populated by Paris Hilton in Providence!)
Rewrites: Another sign you're not standing still as an artist. It can be an annoying tendency -- It's never 'right' enough! Argh! -- but I hope it makes you feel better when you manage to rewrite something in a more elegant way. There needs to be some satisfaction from that.
Ever tempted to significantly or completely change the incidents of an older story? New endings and such?
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It's good to see you more and more comfortable with Providence and the Northeast. I read your blog your entire previous length of time in Atlanta, and I didn't sense comfort with the place.
It's good to be somewhere I feel comfortable. Though, as much as it hated me, I do find myself homesick for the South, from time to time. Then again, I am an admitted masochist.
There needs to be some satisfaction from that.
Agreed.
Ever tempted to significantly or completely change the incidents of an older story? New endings and such?
I has occurred to me. So far, I've resisted.
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The South got you writing and got you singing. Putting yourself out there in more than one way, Not Being Fucking Quiet, so it had some positive impact on your life. And almost any place you'd been for 20-30 years is going to have some positive associations. (The one place I've been that I honestly say "I don't miss it" is my junior high school in Northern Virginia. I was only there two years, but even that had positive connotations: it was there that I really got into article writing and Monty Python, for two examples. So there's still something cool that came for me out of that experience, as miserable as it was.)
Ever tempted to significantly or completely change the incidents of an older story? New endings and such?
It has occurred to me. So far, I've resisted.Ask Harlan Ellison if he'd hand off any of his need-to-be-rewritten old-old stories and see what you'd do with them if you rewrote them. Like that ( ... )
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With the proper offering, I'm sure Hubero would be willing to approve...
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What does the cover look like for the touched up Silk?
This is the revised fourth edition, the one I was referring to yesterday, the heavily revised one.
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