PERSONAL WEBSITE[S]:
www.thbthttt.com
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drinkthenewwine.blogspot.com/
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INTERESTS:
I once fancied myself a potential author and even saved up all my money
from my first full-time job to take a year and a half off and write a novel.
Twenty years later, and I’m still stalled somewhere in Chapter
9.
Most of all, I think, the experience
left me with an enduring affection for the short, short bits of writing I could
polish off in a few hours, although even with these, I could still make things
difficult for myself by constructing elaborate postcards around my stories and
sending them to my friends.
Today, I
participate in 100words, but only sporadically, and even add to my problems
here by creating a few of my own rules: (i) I generally don’t write about
what happened to me today, since I’d much rather write about
something I’ve had some time to think about or something I’ve
made up entirely. (ii) I do not write about writing, and especially about writing
100 words, since I generally find reading such things tedious. (iii) I
occasionally write to an arbitrary theme I choose to carry me through the
month.
I’m pretty sure that
I’ve broken my own rules, and I know that I’ve broken
Jeff’s, but if it’s any consolation, the whole experience has
frequently compelled me to reduce short story ideas and even entire novels to
one-hundred word summaries . . . and make me wonder if things might be
better if they stay forever in that
form.
For those who might care, I
write in Tex-Edit on my Macintosh and use it to curl my quotes, lengthen my
dashes, and occasionally add a bit of emphasis to my pieces. Tex-Edit counts
my words, and Spell Catcher corrects my spelling.
EMAIL:
roy_schulze@mac.com