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Apr.10.2013
Have you ever noticed that the cooking times on recipes are rarely right? Many times I have put chicken in the oven for 8 minutes, per the instructions, only to pull out a raw piece of meat. And even more times have I scorched the sides of an otherwise perfectly baked cake because the...
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Apr.10.2013
When I'm out of inspiration, sometimes just looking out the window at the world will get me writing again. Alas, sometimes the result is pretty much doggerel!
It's raining and it's coldAnd I think I'm growing moldEverything around is drippy damp!The weather is upsettingAnd you also...
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Apr.09.2013
Well, unknown to me. Well, in regard to writing it. Watching is another story. I've watched criminal dramas like my life depends on it for years. I never tried writing anything macabre or suspenseful until tonight.
I am surprised at how easily it comes. That in itself is frightening. Within...
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Apr.09.2013
Gayle Shanks of Changing Hands Bookstore on How Writers Can Work with Booksellers to Achieve Success
Huffington Post interview: http://huff.to/Xqfxc6
The Book Doctors have helped dozens and dozens of amateur writers become professionally published authors. They edit and develop books, help writers develop a platform, and connect them with agents and publishers. Their book is The Essential Guide...
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Apr.09.2013
Thanks to the North Carolina Writers Network for posting this:
Home > Our Members > Hats Off to Bob Mustin!
Hats Off to Bob Mustin!WRITTEN BY ADMINISTRATORTUESDAY, 09 APRIL 2013 04:36
Hats Off! to Bob Mustin, whose memoir piece "The Man IN The Moon" appears in...
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Apr.08.2013
So, I think I broke my brain. I am currently working to fix it.
Over the past four months since I indie-pubbed my first novel, Leather to the Corinthians, I have been spending considerable energy using social media (read: all my free time) to market and promote the book. Prior to its release, I had...
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Apr.08.2013
As I write more and more, I finally noticed that I have a preference for a few related genres.
I like writing horror/weird fiction and fantasy, and I like throwing in mystery elements. When I'm working on a horror piece I find myself spending more time at the keyboard, happily typing away,...
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Apr.08.2013
And within those small spaces? As a piece of music develops and heads to its conclusion, what about the bits and pieces that fill them, the patterns that emerge and develop into other patterns that make the work interesting and coherent?
Brahms's Intermezzo Op. 117 No. 1 is built on very slim...
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Apr.07.2013
This morning, eating breakfast with Annie and the Corbster. At an IHop, of all places, a chain restaurant Corb absolutely abhores.
"...so I have this meeting this afternoon with a theater group about directing a play," I was saying, after gulping down my tomato juice. "It's for another...
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Apr.07.2013
Hard, these days, to maintain the illusion that finishing my new short story collection is important or critical or matters in the slightest.
Not after hearing the terrible news about Iain Banks' inoperable bladder cancer.
Banks is a marvel, possessing one of the most enormous and densely...
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