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Achievement Unlocked: Adobe InDesign (plus a Sneak Peek at Some Illustrations and Cover Designs)
What it was like to learn InDesign: You walk into a craft store simply knowing that you want to have a pretty house. You feel your eyes get big as your wallet gasps and then you find yourself in the clearance section at the back of the store maybe picking out some beads. Are you frightened? Strangely, yes. Do you feel inadequate? You bet.
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The Gift of Isolation (or How I Wrote 200k Words in 3 Years)
If it wasn’t a text it was a phone call. And if it was neither, it was an email. Are you working on it yet? Tell me when you start. I see you online, where are you? I don’t see you online, where are you? My dad was a benevolent taskmaster; some days it was easy to forget he was also my client.
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He’s a Grin and a Frown, He’s a Skull in a Crown: My Brother the Artist Saint Down
You're perched on the shelf wherever the last reader decided to place you, always in the miscellaneous section.
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Writing The Music Of Pedro: Weaving Truth with Fiction
The story is fictional but very much based on true events. It reveals much about me, my life experiences, and a wistfulness for how I wish some things could have been. --Sergio A.C. Pizano
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I Suspect My Dad Raised Me to Rewrite His Book: On Harnessing Words of Dis/Encouragement
Much of what I was reading voraciously at the time could be called uninspired, but it scratched an itch, gave me something to mimic, and it was published. I wanted more than anything to do what those authors had done and smell my own words mixed with that pulp potpourri.
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La Mordida: Francesco Pays the Price to Spare His Son
Francesco stood outside his store inspecting a delivery when Diego Cordoba appeared down the road astride a horse, leading a man behind him at a slow walk--Joaquin, stumbling drunkenly and tied to a rope that was looped around Cordoba’s saddle horn.
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I Told My Dad I Could Never Love His Novel Like He Did (I Was Wrong)
I get it, Dad. It’s your baby, I said. He’d just finished the most current of several iterations of his novel and now he was trying to persuade me to edit it.
