Master of Public Administration
Novelist, Writer
Technical, Medical Writing, Researcher
Info (at) marionblackurn.net
Greenville, NC
Marion's WordPress blog is here
This blog features intimate thoughts about writing, running, Jack Kerouac, and Buddhism. I've tried to categorize entries but they have become jumbled with WordPress updates. I'll revise as I can.
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These posts meander through topics tangentially related to writing. The tragedy of the death of David Foster Wallace, the scandal of bad writing, the lonely pursuit of good -- colored and shaped by spiritual matters, tap dancing, running and hiking, and all through the eyes and mind of a writer.
Special weekly features include Tech Thursday and Figuratively Speaking Friday.
About WordPress
WordPress is an open source format, like Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird. That means the programs are open and able to be modified and if your changes are good enough, they are added to the programs.
Of course, you don't need to know anything about programming to enjoy WordPress. It is a readable format that allows anyone to comment.
Categories will direct you to past blogs on Jack Kerouac, tap dancing and writing.
The old blog
Archives of the previous Fiction Daily blog can be found here.
If you're looking for posts on Jack Kerouac, you'll find most of them in February 2008.
The good news is that because those entries are hosted by WordPress, you can search for them more more easily. You can also comment on them.
The previous Fiction Daily blog was hosted by Yahoo, and appears here. These are the same entries, but although you can read them, it's no longer possible to comment on them.
The links below give you an idea of the topics covered. You can also look up the entry on the WordPress blog and comment if you'd like.
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Because of the interest in entries on Jack Kerouac and especially about his time in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, below are links to related posts. They cover Jack Kerouac's original manuscript scroll for "On the Road," which was on view at the New York Public Library in early 2008. They also take a look at Kerouac's time in Rocky Mount where he lived with his sister, Caroline, in Big Easonburg Woods, today known as West Mount.
They are listed by post number.
Finding Kerouac in Rocky Mount 335, 325, 267, 254,
Kerouac and "literature" 324, 318, 317, 314, 313
Reading On the Road 289
Personal notebooks, drawings and New York city 269, 218, 212, 208, 207, 206, 205, 204, 203, 202, 201, 200, 199, 197, 192, 189, 184, 181
Those entries also appear on the Word Press format at these links, in descending order:
Kerouac in N.C., June 4, 2008
John Dorfner, June 2, 2008
Kerouac in Rocky Mount
Reading “On the Road”
Plot, or not?
Reading “On the Road”
“On the Road”
Tibet update
Some of the Dharma
Mythical Scroll audio diary
The Mythical Scroll
Kerouac Images, Drawings, Notes
Kerouac
The Mythical Scroll (Five Parts)
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