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Mar.16.2011
Bull elk on Lookout Mountain
in snowstorm
Writing is not just about what we already know. It's also about what we wish we knew. At this juncture, where facts and experience meet curiosity, inspiration takes root. Passion and our emotional connection to a story may form the heart, but research...
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Mar.05.2011
After five minutes of deep contemplation, I am ready with my book 'What Every Woman Thinks About Apart From Sex'. It will have blank pages to convey that no one knows what a woman is thinking of, even regarding sex. Of course, to make sure that I am taken seriously I will refer to the ‘...
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Feb.22.2011
There are hosts of web sites to give information about nearly everything on the internet. This site, http://www.virtualgdbk.com/, seems to offer much immediate research to authors who are using an exact setting of any of these cities. I can't testify how up-to-date it might be, but that can be...
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Feb.21.2011
Not quite sure how big a push this BIG push is, but I begin another *thriller* which I hope to complete quickly. Actually, this plot is what I had planned to use for my first *thriller*, but it got shoved aside (and rudely) by a whole different situation. And a year + later . . .
So, as I...
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Feb.18.2011
Engaging author, instructor and happiness expert Jamie Cat Callan was inspired by her French grandmother to return to France and discover the secret to joie de vivre - at any age. She shares those secrets in her latest book, Bonjour, Happiness!, which serves up the latest adventures of one woman on...
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Feb.11.2011
I’ve always loved getting a new cell phone. Trouble is as soon as I have a one I’m ready for a new one. At least until I purchased my first iPhone. Sure there were things to get used to – virtual keyboards, small ear speaker and the “slide to unlock”; however, none of these outweigh the universe...
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Feb.09.2011
The sun is not the sun anymore, the one whose gaze brings tears to the eyes, whose heat penetrates through the pores and who defines dawn and dusk. There was love as it dipped into the sea and disappeared in the arms of the night, or pining, even betrayal, as it left for another place to warm...
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Feb.06.2011
Research is always a tricky thing. I've heard different, if not competing views, from almost every writer with whom I discuss this subject. Some advocate for only internet using the Google approach. I'm not the head cheerleader of this movement, but I will say that you can find a lot of info on...
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Jan.31.2011
So I have the idea. I do some research. I work it up into an outline plot with a smattering of characters and then I start writing. This is when it gets messy.
1. The brain dump or free flow
First up is the free flow type of writing when I'm eager to bring the idea and characters to life by...
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Jan.28.2011
A tony university will naturally have its eyes on the swish. Yet, there is something unnerving about a case study at Harvard Business School on the role of the employees at the five-star Taj Hotel during the Mumbai attacks of November 26, 2008.
The multimedia case study ‘Terror at Taj Bombay...
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