The Writer

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• Gunman attacks house of Pakistani columnist (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AP - A gunman opened fire on the house of a newspaper columnist critical of Pakistans army and spy agencies in an attack the writer alleged on Tuesday was carried out by elements linked to the countrys powerful security establishment.
  11 hours ago

• skip the last train home go underground

  
  throw another bear in the canoe — Authority: 435
  Radio Paradise has been on a roll this week, I have to say. Stuff I like and stuff I suspect I will grow to like in equal proportions. Today? More work on "The Unicorn Evils," which stands at 11,400 words, and then eventual climbing. Im up, fed, showered, yogaed, beteaed, and the dog has been watered, fed, and run ...
  1 day ago

• Sweet, sweet victory

  
  Refine Me — Authority: 116
  FINALLY. After a month of trying to get time to write, of almost burning out , and wishing November is over, I finally hit 50,000 words last night. 50,047, to be exact. *weeps with joy* This has got to be the sweetest NaNoWriMo victory yet, and the longest time I had since I tried to reach the goal. 2007, which ...
  1 day ago

• Top 20 Cricket Poem

  
  Treasure's Tales — Authority: 107
  Well, I made the Top 20 list of the inaugural Cricket Poetry Award . One hundred and six poets submitted a poem for the inaugural Cricket Poetry Award competition, in which twenty were selected to be publicly read by actors on the 1st Oct 2009. Based on the reading and crowd response, the last four poems were ...
  2 days ago

• Excerpting

  
  Refine Me — Authority: 116
  I thought I didn’t have an excerpt to share, but I thought I’d share this part because this was totally unplanned. I never thought I’d include Facebook in my novel, but I ended up doing so — my character was sort of stalking, but without the gps . If ever I do edit this manuscript, I don’t know if I’ll ...
  3 days ago

• Embracing My Inner Crone

  
  Beyond the Veil — Authority: 120
  Tomorrow I turn 50. And you know, the more I think about it, the wider the silly smile on my face gets. Tomorrow I will be eligible to join the Red Hat Society. Tomorrow I will be allowed to sit at the virtual "adults table" with my friends at O.B.O.D. Tomorrow I can begin calling myself a crone. Far from a ...
  3 days ago

• Using Sentence Length to Your Advantage

  
  Quotes on Writing — Authority: 123
  “Another way to speed your pace is to use shorter sentences. When your characters approach danger or are fleeing from it, use short sentences to speed the pace and mimic the quickened heartbeat.” -- Elizabeth Lyon in “Apply a book doctor’s eye to your own fiction.” [ The Writer , December 2009] Sentence ...
  4 days ago

• For Joel.

  
  The Things I'd Tell You.... — Authority: 432
  I Carry Your Heart With Me I want no world, for beautiful you are my world, my true And its you are whatever a moon has always meant And whatever a sun will always sing is you Here is the deepest secret nobody knows Here is the root of the root and bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which ...
  4 days ago

• Something I read tonight.

  
  The Things I'd Tell You.... — Authority: 432
  “Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to madness? They have more than average amounts of energies and abilities to see things in a fresh and original way—then because they also ...
  5 days ago

• sit back and ill tell you were living in fear

  
  throw another bear in the canoe — Authority: 435
  Audible is giving away free audiobooks for Thanksgiving, including METAtropolis. A thousand words last night, and 330 so far this morning. Im slogging through the 113 pages of this book I do have written, putting things in a logical order, fixing my line of direction, and amending my "think of this later" ...
  1 week ago

• Avatar: CNN Interview – James Cameron

  
  Tvbot.se — Authority: 168
  Interview with James Cameron, the writer, director and producer of Avatar that was done with CNN . Interview takes place at the film’s editing room, with editing still going on weeks before the film’s release. See original here:  Avatar: CNN Interview – James Cameron
  1 week ago

• Avatar: CNN Featurette – World of Avatar

  
  Tvbot.se — Authority: 168
  Featurette for Avatar that was released by CNN . Preview shows new footage from the film with an interview with James Cameron. See the rest here: Avatar: CNN Featurette – World of Avatar
  1 week ago

• i crave an empty lifestyle

  
  throw another bear in the canoe — Authority: 435
  Updated to-do list from now until next October. I have indeed crossed off the schizophrenic time-travel levitation projekt, which means I am back on Grail . Which still stubbornly refuses to write itself. Id really like to have a draft by years end: what do you think the odds are? In any case, my winter working ...
  1 week ago

• Vive L’Empereur!

  
  Civil Warriors — Authority: 414
  From last week’s visit to Les Invalides:
  1 week ago

• How not to be liked by everybody

  
  Time to Write — Authority: 129
  I really like t he postJonathan Fields wrote on his “Awake at the wheel” blog, called “The Geek’sGuide to Being Interesting.” If you have trouble with small talk and navigatingtypical networking sessions, you’ll relate:   “It sounded so easy. Just learn the standard openers, the 10new-person ...
  1 week ago

• John Keats to Fanny Brawne

  
  The Things I'd Tell You.... — Authority: 432
  My dearest Girl, This moment I have set myself to copy some verses out fair. I cannot proceed with any degree of content. I must write you a line or two and see if that will assist in dismissing you from my Mind for ever so short a time. Upon my Soul I can think of nothing else - The time is passed when I had power ...
  1 week ago

• Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snowflake

  
  Women of Mystery — Authority: 426
  If youre a fan of the Snowflake Method of outlining a novel, have I got great news for you! Randy Ingermanson, the creator of the method--and called the Snowflake Guy in honor--has developed a software program called Snowflake Pro that gives you the tools and guidance to work through the first nine steps of the ...
  1 week ago

• The Mythic Journey Behind Daughter Am I

  
  Bertram's Blog — Authority: 468
  Today is the last day of my Daughter Am I virtual book tour, and what better place to end it than here, at my own blog. Thank you everyone for your support during the past five weeks. It was a wonderful journey! Daughter Am I was the combination of two different stories I wanted to write. I’d read The ...
  1 week ago

• theres more dark meat on a hamster

  
  throw another bear in the canoe — Authority: 435
  My workplace today. Im not actually one hundred percent sure what I mean to get accomplished today, but I have Grail , The Steles of the Sky , and the Secrit Projekt with kylecassidy all open simultaneously, and Im poking at them all distractedly while waiting for genius to strike. I may also attempt to ...
  1 week ago

• for the ladies

  
  throw another bear in the canoe — Authority: 435
   On the job.  Breakfast today is sesame steamed buns, and the tea today is coffee, which is technically a tisane. (Later there might be some Bush Tea.)  Todays mug: bats of the Northeast .  Books on the table are Kelly Gays The Better Part of Darkness and The Ninth Daughter by Barbara Hamilton, a pseudonym ...
  1 week ago

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