Category: Writing

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  Writers: Roll the dice to see where your writing life takes you

  The Los Angeles Times recently surveyed writers participating in the L.A. Times Festival of Books about their path to literary success. The result can be seen the creation of a unique board game that lets you play along. The board game cites interesting results along the way, including: the age respondents decided…

  September 14, 2015
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  Reading and Writing Around the Web: The Nonfiction Edition

  Every day I scour the web for interesting articles, tips, and just great reads. Most of what I’ll share concern reading or writing, books, movies and TV, because that’s what I’m into. If you see something worth reading or care to discuss a topic, just leave a comment. I may…

  August 20, 2015
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  Time to get serious about writing, exercizing

  I finally have an accountability tracker. After several days – nay, weeks – in which I accomplished nothing of importance and after complaining about my failings over and over again, my brother had enough of it. In response he has created a nifty Excel document that I must fill out…

  August 10, 2015
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  Reading and Writing Around The Web: The Author Edition

  Welcome to another edition of Reading and Writing Around the Web. This time, I thought I’d take a look at some authors who have been in the news and share some interesting articles about each. Go Set A Watchman and Harper Lee Everyone seems to have a take on Harper…

  August 7, 2015
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  Reading and Writing Around the Web for 7/31

  Every day I scour the web for interesting articles, writing tips, and just great reads. It’s all part of my ongoing effort to learn more about the craft of writing. A lot of these come from email newsletters I subscribe to or from my Facebook newsfeed. From time to time…

  July 31, 2015
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  Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock mystery magazines are a steal

  I only occasionally purchase Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock mystery magazines. Not because I don’t want to, mind you, but because I’ve got so much other material to read already (including back issues I still haven’t finished yet.) But, obsessed with reading as I am, when I saw a recent…

  July 28, 2015
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  Reading and Writing Around the Web 7/27

  Today we’ll celebrate three icons of the written word in Reading and Writing Around the Web. First up, Agatha Christie fans will be excited to know that Lifetime is partnering with BBC One on a miniseries adaptation of the best-selling crime novelist’s And Then There Were None. The cast includes Douglas Booth, Charles…

  July 28, 2015
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  Reading and Writing Around the Web for 7/25: The Amazon edition

  It seems like everyone wants a piece of Amazon. Or at least to blame Amazon for their writerly woes. The Interweb is full of articles bemoaning Amazon’s Kindle author pay policy, customer review policy, and more. Here’s just a few articles I came across recently: The Authors Guild is urging…

  July 25, 2015
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  Reading and Writing for the Web 7/22

  Every day I scour the web for articles on reading and writing to further my education about my craft and try to share the best of those articles with you here. Today, I thought I’d focus on reading. One of the most common, reiterated pieces of advice for writers of…

  July 22, 2015
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  Reading and Writing Around the Web for 7/21

  Has this ever happened to you? Today I had as many as 16 tabs open on my computer at the same time in my web browser, and, naturally, the browser crashed. Fortunately, when you reopen the browser there’s a neat little tool called Recent Tabs that, once you click on…

  July 21, 2015