Monday, January 4, 2010 - Prescott AZ
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Dawn at the Corral, Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu NM, December 24, 2009
RV is on fire! RV is on fire!
Those words, yelled with urgency, will blow you right out of the sack! They'll make you a tad grumpy too, once the adrenaline wears off and the kid who yelled them is long gone....
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Prescott AZ
Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #1417, 3050 North Hwy 69, Prescott, AZ 86301 - (928) 445-1113
- Nice level parking lot
- Verizon cell phone service - excellent
- Verizon EVDO service - excellent
- Locate this Walmart on my Night Camps map
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Writing From the Inside Out
A young writer, if he is unknown, can be at a party and watch what everyone is doing. If he has a marveluos ear for dialog, he can wake up the next morning and remember all that was said and how it was said. He is a bird on a branch. Sees like a bird and writes books that are extraordinarily well observed. But once he is successful, especially if that happens quickly, it's as if the bird were now an emu. It cannot fly. It grows haunches and foreshoulders and a mane: lo and behold, it is a lion. And everyone is looking at the lion, including the birds. But it is a lion with the heart of a bird and the mind of a bird. So there is a terrible period when the transmogrified emu is trying to live like a lion and has little talent for it. Then the beast begins to experiment. When it runs, it now sees other animals scamper. It takes a while - often years - for the writer to get to appreaciate his effect on others, and even longer to begin to understand human beings again. In the old days, he could write about friends, enemies, and strangers by intuition, by induction; now he puts it together by deduction. Of course, he does have more material on which to work his deductions.