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Hi, I think you need to check out my blog The Inspiring Blog Award, as I’ve just nominated you for it!! Everything is explained in the blog, enjoy! You’re a great writer!
first….I love your blog. and second, I’m enjoying our conversations. Third, have you read Tom Robbins? What do you think of his writing? He is my second favorite writer.
I haven’t read Tom Robbins, but I will check him out. I need new favorite writers. I no longer read the horror and sci fi stuff I used to read. I’m enjoying our conversations too. You are bright and interesting and fun.
Well, thank you sir! The definition of success, am I right? To win the respect of intelligent people. It must be that we get along because we have so much in common and a similar cadence of thought.
Tom Robbins is my second favorite. He is wonderful. His prose reads with the flow of poetry….without being “ugh…poetry”….I know you know what I mean.
Start with “Villa Incognito” perhaps. Or “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”
Okay, thanks. I do know what you mean. I try to write that way. Sometimes, a poem of mine sneaks into a book as prose. People rarely notice.
what is the difference, Mr. Jones…other than line breaks and stanza separation…and perhaps iambic pentameter
but truly. the only difference is the presentation, or do you think other wise?
No, I agree. The only (spit) poetry writing class I took taught me that modern poets really are attempting to write one-page stories. There is a de-emphasis on grammar rules, punctuation, and the like, but otherwise, lyrical prose and poetry are alike. If either is too flowery, you’ll get trashed.
and trash I will. I am sensitive to poetry.
by the way, how did you find my blog?
Honestly, I can’t remember. I was thinking you found one of my blogs – maybe my photography blog. Or I saw a photo of yours, or fell through a manhole cover, and there you were. I forget so easily.
or the stars collided the right way and shifted down just so.
I miss talking to writers.
OMG this has been SO REFRESHING….can you tell, by my capitalization, that I am excited? My intellect and muse have been thirsty and need to clink glasses with someone else to cheers to good health before drinking
The feeling is MUTUAL.
P.S. I love being called Jones.
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excellent on both accounts!
BTW, I like the title/phrase/idea….”fix your mirror”
Thanks. It actually came from real life. My ex-wife, I met from blogging. I’d stumbled across her blog, reading how she described herself and her life. I didn’t want to reply, because I didn’t know her. So, I wrote an essay on mine with that title, with her in mind.
She found my blog and my essay, and wrote, “I feel like you wrote that for me.” She was overweight (a little) at the time, and hated it. I suggested she go stand in front of a mirror until she could see her beauty. She told me later, she stripped naked, and stood there crying, for hours, until she could. Eventually, she lost 30 pounds, and found the beauty inside.
It all comes down to mirrors in the end.
wowww. Jones, that’s really amazing. A) the part about seeing her beauty and helping her see it but most importantly B) she could FEEL that you wrote it for her.
fascinating you met your wife on a blog!
My photo gallery: http://billjonesjrphotos.wordpress.com/photo-projects/carla/
this is her?
yes
and so what…on the bill@billjonesjr.com….that’s an email? ……or we can just keep this zigzag chatting, adds a little curious flavor
That is indeed an email. I have like 5. Ha. Feel free to use it. I have other means of contact too. Perhaps messenger pigeon.
NO WAY DID YOU JUST SAY THAT. i say that all the time to people
there is something about you that i cant quite put my finger on yet that reminds me of saul willaims
Melanin?
i SO KNEW you were going to say that. I was expecting that response you smart ass….
Yes, Jones, I am that completely vapid.
I like you too.
Hmm, maybe I should give Persia White a holler.
I am still like “wow” that you called me “a writer”….ie: “I have missed talking to writers”
and that you think i have some good pieces. wow.
Email me, and I’ll give you my contact info. The only thing you lack is a reader. That would be me.
well thank you for reading!
i’ll figure it out about saul, and let you know