Marion Blackburn

WELCOME TO FICTION DAILY!

Marion's WordPress blog is here

 These daily 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

The previous Fiction Daily blog was hosted by Yahoo, and appeared here.

As of July 2009, that link will no longer work. The good news is that because I've moved all those entries to WordPress, you can search for them more more easily.

 If you're looking for posts on Jack Kerouac, you'll find most of them in February 2008.

 A note about the archive blog: For some reason the first page is garbled. otherwise, it's fine.

The links below probably won't work but they give you an idea of the topics covered. It is my goal and honest intention to fix them one day.

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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

Koi in pond

Photo by Greg Eans/ www.gregeans.com