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Aug.07.2008
1. Not aiming high is humanely wrong and improper for it deteriorates humanity.
(more to be added in the future)
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Aug.04.2008
And what a nice one! Thanks, Red Room, for naming my blog entry 'best' for the week. I appreciate it very much.
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Jul.30.2008
Why is it when you're just starting out, writing feels like an enormous chore? Every word feels as if it's pulled out with some kind of blunt-tipped instrument, and your head is more like the remnants of a Saigon bombing campaign than actual human tissue.
Then, when you've been at it for a few...
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Jul.27.2008
Book projects are on hold for now. I have a slew of blog posts, columns and articles I need to write each week and each month for a variety of outlets.
I love blogging. There is an immediacy - and a brevity - that suits my current brain. I'm blogging for WorkitMom, Web Worker Daily and also trying...
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Jul.25.2008
Recently, a friend pointed me to a blog on Galley Cat that bemoaned the dwindling enthusiasm in the blogosphere to review books. It seems that publishers are depending on online outlets to review their books, and bloggers are growing resentful of the stacks of books they receive and are expected...
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Jul.19.2008
Bloggers are surprisingly conservative, for a group that consider themselves to be on the cutting edge of internet technology.
Blogs started life as opinion pieces, the entry of sites like Blogger and Wordpress made it simple for anyone with an internet connection to dump the caffeine addled...
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Jul.17.2008
Like Pavlov's conditioned dogs at the sound of a bell, I salivate at the sight of a computer keyboard. Yes, yes, drooling, itching to write! After so many years of running a writing and editing service (www.timesolvers.com), I feel like a pianist without a practice piano, afraid that my fingers...
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Jul.15.2008
I used to work in the music business as a promoter. Initially (in the 80's) rock bands in small clubs around London - the business was simple in those days, if your finger was on the pulse, the bands you booked would fill the club, everyone came out a winner.
At the end of the decade, the game...
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Jul.13.2008
Life is funny sometimes.
Here's what happened:
The book I just finished revising, After the Storm, involves the disappearance of a central adult character. (I'm not giving anything away; the reader will know this in the first few pages).
If a commenter on my blog has a link connected to her...
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Jul.12.2008
Ingenious way to outline a few simple steps new authors can take to promote and advertise their novel. Without giving too much away, this video discusses the importance of book reviews, a book tour, media interviews, a professionally designed website and blog, social bookmarking, MySpace, Facebook...
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