Unwritten Sequels

Posted on November 19, 2011 by Joe Clifford Faust

I don’t know where you come down on the idea of sequels. Cinematically, I’m really tired of them… it’s like proof once again that Hollywood is officially out of ideas. Not that I haven’t been tempted. With every novel I’ve published (or, as in the case of The Mushroom Shift, am about to publish), I [...]

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To Thine Own Writing Be True

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Joe Clifford Faust

It’s been an interesting experience getting The Mushroom Shift ready for publication. I mean, here is a novel I wrote almost 25 years ago, and as I’m reading it, and as I’m having my Kindle read it to me as part of the proofreading process, I’m discovering something about it that I hadn’t expected. It’s [...]

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Oh, Fudge!

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Joe Clifford Faust

Where to come down on the idea of cussin’ in one’s books? I’ve gotten away from it for the most part, mostly because I’m a Christian and try hard not to use it myself. But I’ve also sat through enough TV versions of films where the language is softened, and for the most part the [...]

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A Chat About Place

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Joe Clifford Faust

I’m going to try something here. A few days ago, a friend of mine who has decided to try and write a novel popped up in my chat window to ask a couple of questions. Instead of writing at length about the subject, I’m going to just put the transcript here and see what happens. [...]

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Something is Happening

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Joe Clifford Faust

Okay, it’s finally time to say something because it’s all getting close. I’m in for a writing career reboot here, and it’ll likely all start happening by the end of the month. The retooling of this web site some months ago was the first step, but now there are others. I’ve slowly been putting things [...]

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Because I’m A Lousy Friend

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Joe Clifford Faust

Tonight we wrapped up my VBS play “The Amazing Secret of the Castle Omi La” (except for an encore performance on Sunday night for those who missed episodes or want to see it again). Now I can now turn my attention back to some other pending literary projects – picking up work on converting A [...]

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The Literary Spouse

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Joe Clifford Faust

Every writer has, or ought to have, a more or less special first reader. For me it is my wife. My wife is the first person to see every article I write for The Economist and every draft of my book manuscript. (I don't show her my blog posts or emails, obviously, which may explain [...]

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Just Another Night at Wal-Mart

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Joe Clifford Faust

Finished episode two of The Amazing Secret of Omi La, after struggling against weeks of interruptions and time burners. Two more and we’ll have us a VBS play. Meantime, here’s an excerpt from the novel I’m on the verge of finishing up, …and that’s the end of the news (except when I’m calling it Drawing [...]

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The Kindle Blues

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Joe Clifford Faust

I thought that people who did a lot of reading were supposed to be smart. See, at the end of 2008 I ordered an Amazon Kindle, and it arrived at the end of February in 2009. I love it. It’s a brilliant device that does one thing – let you read – really, really, really [...]

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Interruption of Service Alert

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Joe Clifford Faust

Things are going to be a mess here for a while. I just found out near the end of last week that Blogger is going to discontinue support of sites using FTP to custom templates. Guess what this site is. According to Blogger, they’ve had this up for months, but it kind of reminds me [...]

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