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I've Moved

1120 days ago

Find me at http://rebekahlynn.wordpress.com or http://thoughtprovoked.com

Ignorance is NOT Bliss.

1127 days ago

"Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know." - Ayn Rand I've been thinking alot about ignorance lately. Someone asked a question on q&A last month about the "gap" in the world today, and my immediate response was: Ignorance. Everyone agreed with my statement, but there wasn't much satisfaction, because just knowing that ignorance exists, doesn't make it easy to fight. As tensions have continued to grow in the middle east and militant islam extremists are being compared to Nazi automotons, whose children are bred with a sole purpose of furthering their cause, my frustrations have only grown. When the president of Pakistan writes a book and is forced two days later to retract his accounting of bounties paid his country by the CIA for capturing key members or Al-qa'eda, my ...

Accepted!

1129 days ago

I've been accepted as one of ten participants in this years Ghost Ranch Writing Retreat in Oracle this summer, I'm quite excited to workshop the novel version of "Butterflies" there and they seemed really positive about the marketability of the concept, so hopefully the week working with editors and agents will nab me a sale. It gives me a deadline to have the manuscript ready, if nothing else and all I have to worry about now is paying to get there. lol. The week has been a blur of pain, labcoats and cat naps. I had all my medical tests finished up this week, so hopefully I'll have some answers on Wednesday. Let's just cross our fingers. I've been busy working on my websites. I'm doing a very extensive Literary Calendar for thedailymuse.net which is time consuming, but I think will ultimately be a big draw to the site, and I've already gotten emails from people wanting to be notified when the launch of aurelmontgomery.com happens, so things are ...

Editor for WritingNews.org and other minutae.

1133 days ago

I've been accepted as the newest Editor at writingnews.org a news information source for writers. This will be my first official endeavor under my nom de plume, Aurel Montgomery and along with preparing for Nano in November I'm striving for an official Nov. 1st launch date of thedailymuse.net, my inspiration and resoure site for authors, also edited cheifly by Aurel. Beyond that I'm shooting for a Jan. 1st launch date for aurelmontgomery.com. I've met a very talented graphic designer that I'm excited to be working with for that project. My novel for Nano, The Twelve, is undergoing daily structural and character changes which I hope to have ironed out by Nov. 1st. I'm also applying for the Akademie Schloss Solitude fellowship, a 6-12 month artists residency program in Germany, so I'm working on getting my application materials polished for that. Wish me luck.

Vindication

1138 days ago

Lest I forget why I love to hear Stephen King talk about writing, a timely quote: "Dig this: The so-called "writing life" is basically sitting on your ass." Read the full article from the Washington Post here.