ice rivers's blog

Lost twenty bucks in scratchoffs and watched Nasa perfect a landing on Mars....ya know the usual. In between I wrote another story that I like a lot. It's about my niece Kourtney and her asshole trigger which eventually gets around to Trump.

Thanks to everybody who collaborated with me to reach this milestone. I realize that 100,000 reads is about the same as the rreads I get from a lletter to the editor but here in ABC, it somehow feels more significant. I pretty regularly get about 200 reads a day now even though my new stuff usually connects with a couple dozen or so who I truly appreciate and keep in mind every time that I go to the keyboard. You keep reading and I'll keep...

This is the beginning of the big one. This is my greatest story because it's true. I've told this story hundreds of times but I've never written it. Other writers have taken a shot at ti and done allright but no one can tell it like I can because I was there for every second of it. I've been holding off on the writing because I wanted to keep growning my writing skills before I even attempted it. The problem is, I'm starting to lose some of my...

I am compelled to write. I get the angle. I come upstairs. The light goes on. I type in the light. All of a sudden something exists that didn't exist before.The writing isn't seeking readers but the writer is surprised by the ongoing reduction of readership. Sometimes I think, well maybe I'm wating my time when I write. Pretty sure my wife feels the same way based on her level of support. Then the angle, then the climb, then the light, then the...

I'm proud to reach this milestone. I was lingering on 49 for awhile. I know these awards are subjective and not supposed to mean much but they mean a lot to me and it makes every story much less lonely. On to 100

I'm getting fewer and fewer readers every day. I'm wondering if it makes a difference how I categorize my stories in terms of age? Since my work is okay for all ages, I just rate it as suitable for fifteen and assume that means it's suitable for all ages. Is that correct? Really surprised at the lack of readers and figure I must be doing something wrong. The last tne or so have been much better than the number of readers would indicate.

I'm in a no cherry streak and it's hitting me at a time of prolificity. I'm kinda into it. I'm getting a lot of reads which is in the end what writing is all about after the joy of creating. I am more familiar with my mortality than ever before. I want to get as much down as I can and leave this whole thing to my kids. I don't think my work is getting worse. Don't see how it could as I'm using everything I have every day and I didn't get here...

How can Anita Ekberg draw such little attention. I KNOW she got mine at the time and pretty sure she got Old Uncle Bill's attention as well. The story of Anita and Uncle Bill is the continuatiuon of Learning to Misinterpret Sex which won an award. The usual frustration with continuyity in composition. If you read the second one without the first, it doesn't make as much sense as if you read the second one after the first. It's like getting to...

A million years really goes quickly when there is no such thing as time. When there is no such thing as time 1o minutes underwater might as well be ten light years in space. When there is no time, there can be no answers so Gambar didn't bother to provide one as that would be hypocrisy. It's not the destination that Gambar illuminates, it's the journey so those along for the whole ride might be happier than those who read the last page first...

Today looked like the conclusion of Gambar but when I sat down at my desk to wap things up three unexpected things happened. I realized that today was May the Fourth which led to the creation of an Intergalactic Holiday. Second I remembered something from my past and caught it. Third was finding a draft that had been hanging around and needed to be finished. Got' em done. Thanks to you 80 folks who began to catch up with Gambar. I'm gonna finish...