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Jan.06.2010
Annette J Dunlea Irish Author and Journalist
Irish Author And Journalist
About Annette Dunlea
Past Jobs: Teacher, examiner, librarian and bookseller
Learned to write: I studied for and received a masters degree in Arts but mostly I love reading and I am...
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Jan.06.2010
My work isn't writing. It never has been, although I've been writing since I was ten years old. I also work full-time and have all my life. No. Writing isn't my work; writing is my love.
It's always amazed me that I can come home exhausted from a full day of work, much of which is done on a...
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Jan.02.2010
January is YA Radio month on A Book and a Chat, with special guest throughout the month. Rhonda Stapleton author of "Stupid Cupid" which was launched just before Christmas, joins me today on a Book and a Chat, launching "YA BLOG RADIO MONTH" on "A Book and a Chat"...
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Dec.30.2009
This weeks entry is about Prologues. What are they and when do you use them. Stop by and take a look.
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Dec.05.2009
http://marg09.wordpress.com/
A Sample:
2. Charles Dickens said, “Make ‘em laugh, make ‘em cry, make ‘em wait.” He put “wait” at the end because it was crucial. (In any series of three, the third is the most important.) In terms I’ve picked up by playing with the boys: Drop the hankie early, but...
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Dec.02.2009
There are three different people involved in any given story at any given time.
There is the writer, who brings to it all of her own pre-conceived notions, ideological dogmas, cultural prejudices. There is the reader, who brings a different set of baggage to the interpretation of the story.
And...
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Dec.01.2009
Conncecting with the past seems to be a common theme among my contemporaries. Those who are writing books and short stories are often telling about their youthful experiences with all the pain of a disfunctional childhood or the sugary memories of youth in the paradise of simpler times.
I'm not...
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Nov.22.2009
If this is the first time you’ve read my blogs, it may shock you to know that for over a year now I’ve been doing almost everything I can do to sell my wife. Today, I’m hoping that my blog will encourage you to sell your loved one too, as long as he or she is an author.
Now, before you run to a...
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Nov.14.2009
Putting together notes for my April 9 – 11, 2010 Autobiography workshop (Esalen). I’m in that “Gathering” stage, reading, sifting, transcribing material from a wide range of sources… some will go into the outline which I plan to share with those attending… other material will be discarded or simply...
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Nov.12.2009
Kafka partook of all three in Prague, though he felt the city was his prison. Kudos for mentioning that Kafka wrote in one of the houses on Alchemist's Lane (a book of short stories). However, a "tsk tsk" for saying Prague Castle was the setting of Kafka's THE CASTLE. It was not.
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