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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

The Writer's Life 3/17 - Blarney

Erin Go Bragh to our Irish friends. I don’t miss riding the subway to and from work, especially on St. Patrick’s Day, the worst time to be underground, as post-parade revelers pile onto trains. Halloween was a distant second. Kiss the blarney stone.



I just filled out my March Madness brackets at ESPN and Yahoo. It’s free, so I took a shot, even though I follow basketball only in the newspaper and will probably not watch more than few minutes of any game. My picks are pedestrian, Kentucky defeating Virginia in the final, 70-65, in both pools. In the Yahoo pool I changed a few picks in the earlier rounds in order to increase my odds. My great nephew is a freshman at UK. I wonder if he will venture to Indianapolis for the championship game -- should the team, as expected, make it that far.


For the second straight season the Mets have lost a young stud pitching prospect to season ending Tommy John elbow surgery. This has become an epidemic in MLB. The Rangers’ Yu Darvish is a victim, and the Phillies Cliff Lee is weighing rehab vs. surgery. I have no idea what’s causing this. Because of today’s humongous contracts, players are babied. Can that have led to a weakening of pitching arms? Other than the split finger fastball, what is different about the mechanics of pitching these days vs. 30 years ago? Have PED’s weakened the tendons? This is a baffling and sad development.

I continue to be embarrassed by the number of spelling errors I'm finding in the file for Close to the Edge, which I copied directly from the e-book. At least half involve whether certain words have a single or double letter, such as the "l" in traveling. Another large portion are the failure to drop an "e", such as in desirable. I wouldn't be surprised if there were as many as 100 misspellings. What a comeuppance. At least the book will be better in its second incarnation. I don't know why anyone but family or friends would have picked up anything else of mine after reading Edge.

No luck selling books on the street today.
Vic's 5th Novel: http://tinyurl.com/okxkwh5Vic's 4th novel: tinyurl.com/bszwlxh
Vic's 3rd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/7e9jty3
Vic's Short Story on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/k95k3nx
Vic's Short Story Collection: http://www.tiny.cc/Oycgb
Vic's 2nd Novel: http://tiny.cc/0iHLb Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/kx3d3uf
Vic's 1st Novel: http://tinyurl.com/pdxwsnt
Vic's Rom-Com Screenplay: http://tinyurl.com/kny5llp
Vic's Horror Screenplay: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3f

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