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In 2001, near the end of her two-hour extravaganza at the FleetCenter, Janet Jackson left the stage for five unforgivable minutes before returning to perform an encore. Was she having zipper trouble? Was she topping off her chakra with fan love as required by her life coach or choreographer? A novice concertgoer would have been led to believe that if only the fans clapped loudly enough, if the urgent desire for a few more sublime notes were made plain, the pop star would be compelled to reward the impassioned throngs with the spontaneous gift of extra song. Of course, there […]

We were very interested in the National Endowment for the Arts’s project focusing on writing projects for soldiers involved in the Iraq war. The NEA has expanded its Operation Homecoming project and has expanded its workshops to more military bases: “The program has been an overwhelming success. I don’t think the NEA fully appreciated the need and demand for the program when we first launched it,” [Dana] Gioia said. “We have doubled the size of the program.” NEA Expands Writing Project for Returning Veterans

Kevin was understandably thrilled to learn he was villain number one as we fight against the clock. And, yes, there was some discussion about whether the clock might also be working against us, but we see it as more a plot device. A villain surely counts as something designed to destroy the calm, linear progression of writing an entire novel in a single month. Knowing we’ve been thrown off our stride emboldened him, and now we find we must be more devious than ever before. This is difficult when going up against a master villain. We started by stumbling home

If you’re looking for a bit of a reality check, continue reading. If you prefer to live in blissful ignorance (and we cannot blame you), skip to the next item. Take our word for it. We often joke that we’re the only person in the greater Los Angeles area who is not working on a screenplay. It could be so cliche, and we can’t have that. Plus we don’t have cinematic vision, whatever that might be. Writing and submitting novels is rough. Writing for motion pictures? Something tells us that people look at all that lovely white space and think

There was a song in our heart when we awoke this morning (“Miss Santa Cruz County”. Cracker). We thought, without a doubt, this would be a normal day. Oh sure, we’d hedged our bets, sending security emails to certain clients, all of whom religiously occupy their desks by eight a.m.. By 9:01, not a single “we need you” email was received. We believed normalcy ruled the day and headed off for yoga. Sure, our teacher tried to kill us, but this was good. We got to meditate on something we wanted to heal and/or improve. We chose writing. Joy and

There is pretty much no news value in reporting on a lawsuit filed by James Patterson’s ex-girlfriend. Sure, when the case goes to court, we might have thoughts, but the fact that a lawsuit is permitted to proceed shouldn’t fascinate us. But it does. This probably has something do with one of our personality flaws. Or maybe it’s Patterson’s lack of interest in things like research and details. That probably rankled more than it should have, and we apparently bear grudges against people who don’t know we exist. {Via Publisher’s Lunch) Ex-Girlfriend Can Press Claims Against Best-Selling Author The Details