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What? Two blog posts in a week? Tom's on a roll, baby! Well, sort of. I did some writing today! Was it in either of my WIPs? A new short story, perhaps? No. I wrote a Spenserian sonnet about Olivia Nuzzi falling in love with RFK Jr.'s brain worm. Why are you looking at me like that...? A Canto for Olivia Journalism's femme fatale , Olivia Nuzzi. “I loved his brain. I hated the idea of an intruder therein. Others thought he was a madman; he was not quite mad the way they thoug

For the next two weeks, I am going to present a series of writing prompts. Maybe they'll give you a better idea of who I am and why I write. Maybe I'll learn those things for myself! Let's begin, shall we? Day One: Breaking Up With Writer's Block Dear Writer’s Block, It’s not you, it’s me. See, I don’t believe you really exist. Lots of people talk about how to beat you, how to cope with you, and even how to make you work for them. But I’ve read a bunch of that stuff over the

The word “blog” seems quaint, doesn’t it? And yet, I remember when the word came into the popular vernacular. Am I old? That’s it, isn’t it? Sigh. Anyway, I do remember a time when blogs were considered cool. If you had a blog, that meant you were an “online person”. And not many people were online people back in the late 90s and early 2000s. Not all of the blogging platforms were free ( Blogger didn’t come along until 1999 ), so blogging wasn’t something that great numbers o

I mean… this isn’t my first blog post. I don’t remember when I made my first blog post. Way back in the before times, no doubt. So, why this