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Nov.05.2010
Third in a series for writers and journalists.
This third installment on interviewing comes at the job differently than the previous two. I suggest you only skim the list, and glean from it the following:
You're hunting for a whole lot of things from sources, and most can only provide some of...
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Oct.15.2010
Article first published as The Fur Files - A Fondness For Females, To Swing Or Not To Swing, Won't Date Whitey on Technorati.
Madame Floretta "Fern" De Villiers, a.k.a. "Amanda Fox" is an author of erotic fiction and commentary. This is her weekly advice column.
Dear Fern,
I’m...
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Aug.02.2010
(NOTE: Writers have issues, especially the more sensitive. The rants about where the book is going are temporarily shelved to address another important issue that plagues every writer worth his or her thin skin. Insensitive writers could care less about rants or issues. They sit with their laptops...
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Jun.26.2010
And the second best way to escape pre-publication anxiety (see previous post)? Try to solve everyone else’s problems, the same problems I once had and will have again when I’m neck deep in another novel. (Right now, I’m only up to my toes.)
So forgive me: Having just recovered from the...
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Jun.11.2010
The Best Part of getting Older is being able to write about it with authority. But hey, we’re all getting older from the minute we are born. However, I stepped off the curb and the old age truck hit me when I turned eighty-one. That’s right, eighty-one.
So, all you youngins sit back and read about...
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Jun.10.2010
I love to soon grow oldSo that I need not workIn that job that I hateI can comfortably relax
I can go to a TempleAnd pray sincerelyTo my maker with loveAs I can find time
I will not be noticedBy the World surelyI can have free lifeDoing as per my liking
I will be respectedAs a great old manAnd my...
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May.13.2010
Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea.
I'm going on a blog tour...
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Apr.14.2010
I was thinking about a fellow writer today as I was hiking in a canyon stream near my home. She had sent me a despairing message: her book had been out for three months, and though she had tried and tried to bring attention to it, to do her part in getting the word out, nothing seemed to be...
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Feb.03.2010
My friends, when you are feeling small and inconsequent, or worry that your work may be small and inconsequent, please undertake the following exercise.
Imagine lifting your own weight over your head. Do this deliberately, and in this way: Imagine that you are standing in front of yourself. ...
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Jan.06.2010
Many members here most likely share my opinion that a career in writing would be a dream come true. The freedom to be able to write what you enjoy most in that writing career, would be an absolute fantasy come to life. Add to that a large amount of acclaim, notoriety, and worldwide appreciation...
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