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Over Served is as Over Served Does
I was sitting around with some writer friends having a cocktail (okay… cocktails) the other day and the subject of books happen to come up (you think?). The discussion began with a question around what does the group (as individuals) think are the best books we have read. Although more scholarly people have offered their […]
List is as List Does
As you can see I love lists. I stumbled across the Modern Library’s governing board’s list of the greatest books of the twentieth century. The board members were: Christopher Cerf, Gore Vidal, Daniel J. Boorstin, Shelby Foote, Vartan Gregorian, A.S. Byatt, Edmund Morris, John Richardson, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and William Styron. This list was […]
Prompt is as Prompt Does
Nostrovia is a fine blog on poetry. Here is the link: http://wp.me/s2SbOP-357 . Please feel free to visit; you will like it. It is also a place where great ideas pop up. This week the idea is a writing prompt around the following: “Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those […]
Rescue is as Rescue Does
Today’s post is a little different in that I normally write about authors and fiction, but am creating a little scenario that I wish could happen. As background; my wife volunteers for the San Antonio Chapter of Austin Boxer Rescue. This organization rescues unwanted and usually abused Boxers from being euthanized and finds them new […]
One Hundred is as One Hundred Does
I went online just before the Super Bowl on Sunday to see if I could find out just how many books had been written about the Super Bowl. To most of you; the answer to this question is about as important as finding out how many calories in a hot fudge sundae. Once you know the […]
Grumpy is as Grumpy Does
More research activity turned up an interesting article at Mental_Floss written by Stacy Conradt titled; 11 Authors Who Hated the Movie Versions of Their Books. I thought it interesting since there are listed some pretty good movies and some surprising reasons why the authors of the original story hated them. Here is a recap of […]
Patience is as Patience Does
Thomas Wolfe has won a chest full of awards and honorary doctorate degrees for his work. Most of the recognition came as a result of his non-fiction work, (The Right Stuff; for example) although he did manage to pick up recognition for his fiction work as well. Not all the recognition for his fiction was […]
Submission is as Submission Does
Since I am in the sweaty process of submitting my work to find an agent and/or publisher, I have come across many different kinds of submission policies. Some policies are very simple; send a query letter and we’ll get back in five minutes to tell you that we can’t do you for XYZ reasons.(You can […]
Rule is as Rule Does
Rule is as Rule Does I was doing some research (ahem make that surfing the net) when I came across an article from the Guardian UK describing a number of author provided rules for writing. I have already published Elmore Leonard’s famous ten rules list back in November, but I was taken with the list […]
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