Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - Harrisonville MO
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Dock, Blue West Public Boat Ramp, Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, Fritch TX, May 12, 2012
Row, row, row yer boat
It seemed like a good idea at the time...
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Harrisonville MO
Walmart Supercenter Store #96, 1700 N State Route 291, Harrisonville, MO 64701 - (816) 884-5635
- Parking lot access a bit tight and RV unfriendly. Much of the lot is gently sloped.
- Verizon cell phone service- Very good
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service - Good service
- 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.