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Yesterday I was staring at five gigantic volcanoes. Today, I'm back at a desk... 

I'm back from Guatemala. I know you missed me. I'll be posting photos and other goodies over the next few weeks, but today I'll be a little slow. Here's a post to get us started.

I come home to find Ed Champion re-designed his whole site, but he's still posting quality stuff. Here's a little community writing exercise that he discovered for all the novelists out there. Check it out:

"Turn to page 123 in your work-in-progress. (If you haven’t gotten to page 123 yet, then turn to page 23. If you haven’t gotten there yet, then get busy and write page 23.) Count down four sentences and then instead of just the fifth sentence, give us the whole paragraph."

Just follow that simple recipe, and then listen to David Lynch explain his own work to Mister Champion.