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A good story is like a motorcycle. All the parts move together and move forward. (7-8-99)
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Woman: A Sometime Thing
by Leonard Bishop The customs of how men regard the women in these Kansas towns are curiously old-world, and quaint. It took me many months to learn how to uphold my more contemporary attitudes without being influenced by the behavior … Continue reading
Say What You Mean
by Leonard Bishop I have been criticized for interrupting people what I believe they are describing themselves with an improper use of language. It is annoying, I know. But the language we speak contains both what we mean to say, … Continue reading
You’re Never Too Old
by Leonard Bishop When a man believe this he is too old for an additional career, he is really too old for an additional career. An opportunity of that type is beginning to happen for me and I intend to … Continue reading
Dying of Health
by Leonard Bishop I’m taking a battery of vitamin pills and I feel drugged with supplementary health. My body is becoming befuddled. It has not yet learned how to assort the power I’m pushing into it. Sometimes the cod liver … Continue reading
Modesty: Bah, Humbug!
by Leonard Bishop When you finish reading this paragraph you will be convinced that I am one of the few absolutely nice guys you have ever read about. For long time now I have wondered why people like me. Although … Continue reading
Small Town Living Lacks Anonymity
by Leonard Bishop Everything has been written about before–but to the innocent( the ignorant, to0), the trite can be original. Living in a small town like Herington is causing me to worry about my family, and I’m beginning to doubt … Continue reading
“Writing” is a Partial Solution
by Leonard Bishop I’m going to view what I write now, through a long-standing memory. Some will be about myself, some about what I have learned. Until I was 18 years old I was just a street punk who only … Continue reading
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Writers Are “Just People” Too
by Leonard Bishop I am often asked, ” What are the really famous writers really like?” People seem to be fascinated more by the private lives of these writers, than by the works that made them famous. Some writers I … Continue reading
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