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Apr.21.2009
Music is a big part of the writing process. This is evidenced by the mile long favorite song threads that I find in forums throughout the web wherever writers gather.
Personally, I give each character or situation a theme song. I think it makes things more colorful.
Each night I go to bed with a...
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Apr.13.2009
This morning I got an email with a promise that watching this video would make my day, and it did. Thought I’d share.
“For a few moments they didn't have a care in the world, regardless of what may be happening in their lives,” Bo
At a German Train Station
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Mar.20.2009
Here are some of my favorite "writer" movies...
Stranger than Fiction is quirky, funny, and the scene where Dustin Hoffman plays an English professor trying to determine the genre of the novel taking over Harold Crick's life is one of the funniest things I've seen in years. Will Ferrell...
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Feb.12.2009
So the AMAZON BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL AWARD contest closed its doors a couple days back and, like I said, I'm in. A couple of people have asked me why. Theoretically I don't need to participate and, if I don't make it to the semi-finals, I stand to get some egg on my face considering I'm a pro and most...
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Jan.19.2009
So I am on my way to the Inaugeration of President Barack Hussien Obama. And I am thrilled.
I leave tonight, and will be spending all day on Inaugeration Day taking in the sights and sounds of a transition of power. I plan to get a good place for the swearing in, and hopefully share in some...
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Jan.13.2009
So, you’re ready to write what you want to write. You’re ready to ignore dumb advice and name your characters Saffron or Millicent and have them drive obscure cars named after small South American mammals. You’re ready to hoist those middle fingers and say, “Screw you world! I’m gonna write...
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Jan.05.2009
I came upon this site, "Wordle", and fed my poem to it, and after a few "Randomizations" it turned out this beautifully scrambled result. (Click on the image for larger resolution.)
Try it out. You can basically feed any text piece to this program, to gain another insight in it...
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Nov.18.2008
Spotted on the Gazebo: this test to find out whether you're left or right brained.http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0%2C21985%2C22556281-661%2C00.html
Most folks I know see the dancer as going clockwise, but you can get her to go counter-clockwise if you keep your gaze left of her and watch...
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Nov.06.2008
My first run at this and it's going fairly well. I figure that I need to write about 12,500 words per week. I started really writing Nov. 2 and now, day 5, I have almost 10,000 words. Not bad at all. Now, since this is basically writing straight through without editing, I'm not sure how great this...
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