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Aug.19.2008
I've been laid off now for almost two months. Yep, the printing company I worked for had a wonderful idea that they could just ship the electronic files for our customers to thier big printshop in another state and let go of all the production workers... eleven of us, give or take. Well, it seemed...
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Aug.18.2008
Hey Seattle-area writers! Come and learn from a master about how to write when you don’t have time to write. With two sets of twins, a gigantic dog, and duel careers as a physician and bestselling novelist, Carol Cassella knows whereof she speaks. Come to a free presentation at the Bainbridge...
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Aug.18.2008
I visited an old friend this weekend, probably for the last time. Now that might sound overblown to somebody who would consider Acres of Books in Long Beach to be just a used bookstore.
But I’m not alone.
Saturday afternoon the place was full of people like me. Readers and book lovers who have...
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Aug.18.2008
I'm breaking the soil on Chapter One, page one of the new draft of the book, and will blog on that later...but just to buy myself a little more time I've posted Chapter 7 of Million Dollar Ideas, that satirical novel Will Jacobs and I are writing, on my author page. This one's called "Pinks...
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Aug.18.2008
Nurse: Doctor, come quick! She's got writer's block.
Doctor: Ms. Hewitt. Please, tell me your symptoms.
Patient: I feel stuffed up and congested in my head. At time I lose my sense of reality. No clear vision, everything is fuzzy. And an annoying vague voice keeps buzzing in my ears. What can it be...
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Aug.18.2008
It seems to be a law of writers' blogs that you must have an essay on that perennial question: Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
So I thought that by way of introduction I'd just get this one out of the way because, frankly, it's so easy.
Franz Kafka offered this advice to writers (I guess to...
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Aug.17.2008
Being a writer means dealing with readers. Some of them are reading a completed books you've written. Others are critique partners, reading what you're working on. Others are editors, both for acquired manuscripts, or those you're trying to sell.
The challenge is remembering how to interpret all...
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Aug.16.2008
Today is the birthday of the central figure of my book: Bernarr Macfadden, publisher of True Story magazine and prime mover in the "undressing of America." He'd have been 140 years old if his natural health ideas had worked as well as he said they would. I think I'll toast him by starting...
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Aug.16.2008
Caramba!
Two novels in one year. Who'd a thunk it?
Just posted Of the Night on my site today. An exciting moment which Sherron shared with me because, let's face it, she's the only one in this family who knows how the technology works. Jpeg? PDF? Huh?
Not only have I published two novels this...
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Aug.16.2008
I just found my new words to live by—in PetCo. I had to buy a Ph test kit for my kid's aquarium (for months the water's running acidic, and then I give it a little NaHCO3 goose and it jumps to pure-blue alkilinity—I figured I should buy a new test in case the old one was going whacky, but no) and...
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