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Jul.07.2012
S.G. Browne, author of Breathers, Fated, and the new book Lucky Bastard, has some great advice for writers who are having trouble getting down to business.
How To Write A Novel In Four Easy Steps
I’m often approached by people who tell me of their struggles in trying to write a novel. Since I’ve...
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Jul.06.2012
I was 10 the year my parents drove from Michigan to the Rocky Mountains for summer vacation. The trip meant six weeks in the back of a truck camper: no TV, no radio. No parental supervision, since they rode in the cab of the truck. These were the days before handheld video games or home...
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Jun.29.2012
One of the things we wanted to do in New York City last week was to see the remnants of the 1964 World's Fair. A couple of months ago, my husband read Brian Selznik's Wonderstruck with my daughter. One of their favorite parts of the book took place at the miniature model of New York...
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Jun.06.2012
The summer I was 9, I stole a book from my mother’s bookshelf. It had a ferris wheel on its cover and told the tale of two boys on the verge of growing up. It thrilled me and terrified me with its poetry.
I went to the library and checked out R is for Rocket and S is for Space and The...
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Jun.05.2012
i09 had a blog piece about self-destructive reading habits over the weekend (http://io9.com/5915122/what-are-your-self+destructive-reading-habits#). I started thinking about my own reading habits.
I used to read more fiction than I do now. A lot of it was terrible, but I would slog...
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Jun.04.2012
I’m not a woman who would ever consider having botulism toxins injected under my skin. I let my hair go gray in the last 10 years. I think I am reasonably vain, but not crazy weird about it. I know everybody ages. I'm not afraid to show it.
I have noticed, however, that my hands...
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May.27.2012
Loren Rhoads's Reviews > Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy LabBody of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab by Christine Montross Loren Rhoads's review May 27, 12 · edit bookshelves: ...
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May.18.2012
I'm teaching a class on performing your writing at the Writing Salon this summer:
Reading, Performing or Presenting in Public: Let Your Voice Be Heard
Saturday, July 14th, 10 am to 4 pm ($95 members/$110 others) San Francisco
“I used to be terrified to speak in public,” says...
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May.17.2012
My blogging teacher suggested I sign up for Klout, which is a service that measures your reach online. After using it for a couple of months, I’m not convinced that it actually measures very much.You can only connect Klout to one Facebook page. I have three, one that's inactive,...
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May.16.2012
One of my earliest memories is coming into my neighbor’s house with the girl next door and seeing a coffin with a candelabra full of burning candles on the television. The scene was in color – I remember vivid yellow – and the music was scary. The next thing I knew, the coffin opened...
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May.10.2012
I’m trying a new system to kick myself into gear. Last year, a friend wrote about HabitForge (www.habitforge.com), which is a free website where you register a goal and it sends you an email every day asking whether or not you achieved it. Their thinking is that if you did anything...
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May.09.2012
Loren Rhoads's Reviews > Demon LoversDemon Lovers by Inara Lavey (Editor), Kilt Kilpatrick (Goodreads Author) (Editor) Loren Rhoads's review May 09, 12 · edit Read in May, 2012I always assumed that the succubus myth was...
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May.02.2012
Loren Rhoads's Reviews > Final Thoughts: Eternal Beauty in StoneFinal Thoughts: Eternal Beauty in Stone by John Thomas Grant Loren Rhoads's review Apr 23, 12 · edit bookshelves: cemetery-books Read in April, 2012This is a...
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May.01.2012
What’s the grave of the most famous person in the world?
That was the question that found my Cemetery Travel blog via a Google search. It’s not a question I’ve answered yet, so I turn to the vast hivemind of the internet for the answer.
Leave your vote for the most famous person’s...
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Apr.30.2012
Tiffany Moore’s Lover Dreamer Imaginator had a really inspirational blog post earlier this year. One of her goals for the year is to accumulate 100 rejections. That’s basically sending out two things a week: pitching columns to big magazines, writing guest posts for other people’s...
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Curiosity is the single most important attribute with which humans are born. Curiosity is a powerful tool, like a scalpel or a searchlight. It is a way to affect change -- even to initiate global change -- on a personal level.”
—Loren's introduction to Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues
About Loren
For 10 years, I edited the nonfiction magazine Morbid Curiosity. Scribner published Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues in 2009. Now I'm blogging about graveyards as travel destinations at Cemetery Travel (http://cemeterytravel.com). A collection of my cemetery...
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Loren’s Favorite Books
Tinker at Pilgrim Creek, A Natural History of the Senses, How We Die, Something Wicked This Way Comes, American Gods, The Bloody Chamber, Owls Hoot in the...
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