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Oct.09.2012
I didn't get much work done yesterday, not with the bloody nose and the roofers making all kinds of noise. I did better this morning since I slept in and they finished up their work and went their way without waking me up. Tells me just how tired I was from yesterday's sturm und drang. Last...
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Apr.03.2012
And the winner is...Namzola!
Thanks to everyone who entered the free magazine contest, either by email or by comment. (There were a ton more emails. Why is that? Don't be bashful!!!) There'll be another contest soon to win a free issue of Space and Time Magazine...
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Feb.25.2012
A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway
image via thehemingwayproject.com
I hadn’t given this book a read in many years, and so after reading Hemingway’s Boat, I decided to take it on again. It’s funny, but it was as if I had never read it the first time. I think that...
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Oct.20.2011
Not an original post title. Sue me.
Cary Tennis' Salon article features someone writing to say, 'I'm a writer who doesn't write'. (http://www.salon.com/2011/10/20/im_a_writer_who_doesnt_write/) The writer nicely captures the writer's issues through the writing, self-discovery, publication war...
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May.04.2011
I don’t blog or write free. I don’t agree with the concept, after writing a free column for two publications. I love reporting, writing, and do so for several publications that pay, so why should I write for someone free? When a skilled writer spends time researching and crafting words, they...
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Dec.18.2010
In case you haven’t heard, American Idol is a popular reality program on TV. While watching recently, I realized there are some comparisons with the show and writing. Here’s what writers can learn from watching American Idol:
1. Many of the people who want to be singers have absolutely no...
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Sep.09.2010
In life sometimes by some chance luck surpasses talent and intelligence; therefore not every success story is necessarily righteous!
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Jun.11.2010
There are a number of things that make this winner of the 2010 Pulitzer for Fiction remarkable:
· Harding’s prose here is exquisite. His voice is consistent, despite his giving life to a number of primary characters: George Crosby, first introduced in the book and dying of...
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Jun.07.2010
There must be a man behind the book; a personality which by birth and quality is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise; holding things because they are things. If he can not rightly express himself to-day, the same things subsist...
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May.29.2010
Luck
Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist at Princeton University, who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics (?), was asked to offer a formula for the 21st century. He submitted two:
Success = some talent + luck
Great success = some talent + a lot of luck
Can success be ascribed to...
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