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May.18.2013
I have envy for writers who fill hundreds of filing cards to take notes for their novels. I imagine them shuffling the deck and doing marvellous tricks. And I find it impressive when authors have sheets of paper filling their walls, sticky notes posted all over, with lines and arrows and question...
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Apr.22.2012
I store my suicide letters the way older people store love letters—locked in an old cupboard I used to scribble on as a child. They don't look like much, just a few creases here and there; a stain in the upper right hand corner of one and a drop of blood from when I cut my own arm open....
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Nov.23.2011
This is about my process. I begin with several journals in which I try to capture every possible idea or observation that could become an epigram, essay or a chapter in a book. These are unrelated sketches that I might delete, post, or expand. Or they might become the germ of something...
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Nov.02.2011
I ponder all this while I look at my pencil (real with wood and lead) which has its eraser reduced to a nub. It doesn't tempt (nor lead ) me elsewhere.
Revolutionary Reading
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USC Bookstore sets record with tablet sales last year
By FRANCESCA BESSEY...
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Aug.12.2011
The phrase "hatching a plot" once had a sinister connotation, usually in reference to criminals. Not so for writers. Compelling plots and subplots with the strong narrative pull described in "Created to Compel: The Use of Prologue in Water for Elephants" (2011 August 8) need...
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Jun.04.2011
I can only hope that I am not defined by the things I do; I can only hope that I am defined as a living breathing entity with the potential to commit actions so often attached to self-definition, but which do not, in fact, comprise one's definition. Still, I cannot live and breathe much in the...
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Apr.02.2011
How To Use Twitter Hashtags Inside Your eBookBy Jason Boog
In April, Arcade Sunshine Media and Grove Atlantic will release an enhanced eBook edition of Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet by Tim Flannery–a digital book that incorporates Twitter conversations into the app....
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Dec.12.2010
Hello Fellow Writers,
Please visit my website for Writing Tip #27. This week I talk about the over use of the word "Not".
Stop by and take a alook
www.kellyabellbooks.com
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Sep.01.2010
On the second session of class, the chairs were arranged differently, two rows were angled, so that when I sat at the last row, I faced in and could see all the other desks, the sides of people’s profiles. Once the instructor arrived, he asked us to make a large circle with our desks in order to...
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May.07.2010
I'm happy when thinking or writing.I do one or the other most of the time-ie if I am not talking.I feel good about the world at large and its people.I'm a people's person.I think that President Barack Obama is on the right track and that he should be supported.The trouble with America is that she...
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