by PJColando | Oct 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
I call my short story writing genre “loose with the truth” because there is always, always, always a kernel of truth in the fiction I flash. Some in my crit group have become confused after they read one of my short stories, certain it was a personal essay despite my...
by PJColando | Aug 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
Here I sit, in front of my Mac, where, a few moments ago, I was transported, like a famous movie in reverse, back to the past. High school reunion via Skype, an innovation that wasn’t featured in http://www.backtothefuture.com It was great fun. It was a blast!...
by PJColando | Oct 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Writing is my ‘encore career’, a phrase I discovered today on a Baby Boomer ‘life transitions’ site. Applause, please, from the audience!!!! I’ve written thousands of clinical reports…and some of them contained fabulous fiction,...
by PJColando | Aug 19, 2013 | Purpose
hyperbolic MEANING: adjective: 1. Of or pertaining to hyperbole. 2. Of or pertaining to hyperbola. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek hyperbole (excess), from hyperballein (to exceed), from hyper- + ballein (to throw). Earliest documented use: 1646, 1676. (wow – before there...
by PJColando | Jul 3, 2013 | Purpose
“I am a star!” This statement of self-respect has knocked a few people off their axis. Relatively speaking, I’m thought to be prideful and/or addled by some – I see it in their squinty stink eyes. I do not fit into the more regular shapes of...
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