Internal Consistency

Well, it seems that the administrator's account is gone forever. I have no idea what this means but I'm not the only one with this issue and Google is so far of NO HELP. A pox upon their "campus"... unless they come through. And I'll be fair if that's the case.

We read more of Jeremy's Debris. He was already inhouse when I arrived after bocce. I simply walked up to him, hugged him, and told him he was going to be our next member to be published. Speaking of which, Nick continues to share insider bookseller buzz on Nami Mun's book. And indeed there is a buzz.

But back to Jeremy. I would say Jen levied the deepest critique. It started with, "Anytime some guy wants to beat his daughter, I'm fine with it, but..."

This is what happens with fiction. It doesn't have to be morally acceptable as long as its internally consistent.

In other news, Jen has written 100 pages. She fears that the pages are not 100 pages toward a novel but 100 pages toward writing toward a novel. You know when you have to write and write and write in order to figure out what to write about?

Both she and Nick are in the queue, but we first anticipate reading words from our newbie. Meanwhile, does anyone want to read my personal essay for b-school?

Welcome New Member / Solutions to Writer's Block

I probably shouldn't say anything until we find out if he really does plan to return, but it looks as if we have a new member. Okay, now I won't say anything more, but the reviews are in and it's good.

I will invite him to contribute to the blog just as soon as I remember the administrator's password. Does anyone have it? I've totally lost it and the password to the email address too, which means I have to call AT&T and that will be just a barrel of monkeys.

I also have to add Nami Mun's new book to the sidebar. Have you all seen her dishy promotion photographs? In Christian's words, she looks HAWT. If that doesn't sell books...

A note on writer's block. There are several ways to solve it. Here are two ideas:

1. Attend groop and ask Nick what to do.

2. Make a several-hundred dollar bet with a friend. The bet is that you won't be able to write 50 pages in a month. Send the check in advance. Your friend cashes it if she doesn't see the pages.

Jen and I will report back on which works better. So far, Jen's solution, #2, seems to be winning.

Horrific marketing campaign

Sorry to use our poor blog to promote my food-related interests, but I just saw a commercial that promoted High Fructose Corn Syrup.

That's right. That lovely highly-processed product that actually makes you CRAVE other calories is getting its own marketing campaign, which promotes it as "natural." If natural is growing high-calorie, low flavor corn and then processing it within every inch of its life, well...

And where is the marketing campaign for honey, raw sugar, apples, berries, etc.?