Author: jesseteller
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 2: Inspiration
Hey, ho, let’s go! Welcome back! This week we’re gonna talk about inspiration. Not why we write, but how we get ourselves ready to write. You all have a reason why you write that I’m not gonna understand, and you don’t necessarily have time to tell. Reading Assignment for this class: “Savior” In today’s reading,…
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Seeds of Revenge: Chapter 1
SNIP Forty-Five Years Before The Escape The blade of her instructor was quick. Her father told her this man was the greatest field medic in his army, and though her instructor was well over sixty, and Cat heard that was old for a human, his hands never shook and he was not infirmed at all.…
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 1: Syllabus
This course is going to be called Write Like A Gangster. I figured out through the course of my career so far that a lot of people will tell you so many hard, fast rules of what you should and shouldn’t do when you’re writing. I don’t believe in those. I’ve broken the rules too…
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Seeds of Juniper: Chapter 1
AND SO IT ENDS Before Recorded Time “Well, what is it?” Tralaesh asked. Juniper looked at the object in her hand and grinned. She held it out to her best friend. “What does it look like?” “No fair,” Tralaesh said. “No games.” Juniper’s friend was beautiful the way only a breaking heart could be beautiful.…
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My Apocrypha 26: The White Pipe
And here we are. The White Pipe story. I have been dreading this one. I didn’t really have a plan for this chapter, except that I needed to drop on a sword for a manager that didn’t respect me. I need to stab Mary’s eyes out. Needed to be scared to death by a blood-curdling…
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My Apocrypha 25: Bubbly
Bubbly was not hot. Business liked to hire beautiful waitresses and waiters so that, one, the restaurant had a charm to it and two, the waitresses and waiters made a considerable amount of tips. Bubbly had been a waitress and had moved her way up to assistant manager. She was not just hot. Which is…
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My Apocrypha 24: Jackie
It started in Uncle Savior’s garage, I guess. He showed me his project car. It was a Nova, and we were off. I remember mentioning it to a guy who, in this series, I have called Nova. Then Trashy. She is watching me and Bekah get together one night, when Bekah has drank too much…
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My Apocrypha 23: Pocket Change
I don’t remember how the idea was posed to me. I was six, and it is in the nature of a Mocking Man to collect things. I started with matchbox cars, but there were far too many of these to get them all. Then I moved to books. I wanted books about magic. And I…
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My Apocrypha 22: Tiger Tracks
I guess now we have to talk about the Freedom of Press. It’s a powerful thing. A person with no qualifications can start up a paper or a TV channel and force their way into the lives of everyone willing to read or watch. If radio, listen to any bit of information that can be…
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My Apocrypha 21: Ziti
Well, I guess it started with a sandwich and a book. Book first, or sandwich? Well, I got ten votes for sandwich, so here we go. It was after a horrific session of therapy. Bekah picked me up, tried to talk to me for a while, and I just stared out the window and watched…
Jesse Teller 