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Five Poetry Lessons You Can Learn from Star Wars

“That’s no moon. It’s a space station.”
One of the mistakes many beginners make is that they try to emulate someone else’s voice. It is fine to love a certain poet or style, but when it comes to writing poetry, you have to realize that the only voice that will work for you is your own [...]

Recommended Reading 5-June-2007

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Do you see the multi-colored letters that form my name at the top of the page. I did that on purpose. I was trying to recreate the look and feel of an early nineteen sixties cocktail bar sign, the sort of thing you would find in a Rock Hudson / Doris Day [...]

Five Reasons Why I Stopped Going to Movies

Back in the eighties and the nineties, a typical weekend for me included seeing at least one and as many as three movies. I wasn’t particularly picky about what movies I went to see. I saw almost any comedy, most action movies, plenty of dramas and a smattering of foreign films. I had plenty of [...]