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Write Like a Gangster, Class 15: Plot
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “Darkness of Slinger Middle School Part 2” chapter from Teardrop Road Writing Assignment for this class: The assignment from Class 12 is due today. Send it to jesseteller (at) yahoo (dot) com. Remember to rate and review your performance at the bottom of the assignment. Plot’s…
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 13: Setting
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “Pop” and “Mrs. Galvin” chapters from Teardrop Road Donald Maass, he’s a New York agent, teaches writing all over the country. Said no two settings are the same. He’s right. Think about cities. Every city you have ever lived in has had at least one thing…
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My Apocrypha 15: Limbs, Anger, a Phone Call, and Siblings
“Come,” X said over the phone, “now!” Then he hung up. Usually we screened calls by letting the answering machine get them first. When I heard X’s voice, I ran and grabbed the phone. “X, X, are you okay?” I was near panicking because I had never heard that sound to his voice before. “X?”…
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My Apocrypha 14: The Reunion of Two Monsters
Didn’t get much sleep that night. Allenton was a bit of a maze when you wanted it to be, and after dodging the State Troopers in the helpful dark of the reluctant dawn, X and I barely got home without cherry lights and the searchlight. It took us a while to get started that night,…
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The Sin Eater 13: Hand After Hand Part 1
There were so many things going on at this time in my life that I really can’t nail any of it down. I’m going to throw a few things around. Let’s call it a few hands of poker. Some are wins where I pull in the pot. A lot of them are losses, times I…
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The Sin Eater 12: Aunt Easy Part 2
“I heard that you have a new friend,” Uncle Ball said to Shadow. Shadow had no idea who this person was except that he was important, and that he was fun, and that he was dangerous. Nothing scared Shadow, and after a few hours of this guy talking to Rose, Shadow found himself in the…
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The Kingdom 22: Halloween
Here we go again. Welcome to the blog blast of the section that I call The Kingdom from the book Reality of the Unreal Mind, Vol. 3: The Keep. The Kingdom is an explanation of the work itself. You can’t understand any writer unless you know their work. So Friday we began at 6 p.m. and I will release…
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The Round Table 26: Turner
Here we are again. In a fantasy book I haven’t published yet, these two young warriors are escaping an enemy, and they approach a bridge, and the leader yells out, “I’m gonna do it again!” The other one says, “You won’t be happy til you get us killed.” And then they both jump over the…
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The Round Table 22: Savior
Friday was release day for a book I wrote called Beacon, book one of the Nation of Five series. The book is about young men and an impossible task they set before themselves. Well, I know a lot about impossible tasks. I’m a DID survivor who suffers from hallucinations. I have bipolar and Non-24-Hour Sleep-Wake Disorder. Getting…
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Rise of the Storyteller 34: One Last Bite
There was a pounding on my door that didn’t wake me from my stupor. Its suddenness, its violence didn’t alarm me or cause me to jump. I took it as easy as the next breath. And though the pounding on my door was oppressive and angry, it was almost as if I had been expecting…
Jesse Teller 