Diane Sherlock
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Had a conversation the other day and the premise that shock lit is over came up. It was thrown in to high relief by the Michael Jackson spectacle. Sometimes it’s hard to top real life with fiction and I began to wonder why we should feel the need. There are so many books about (now…
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Some of the people at school (see below) read Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art. I find it interesting to look at what authors are doing besides writing. Pressfield, who wrote Bagger Vance, Gates of Fire, and so on has taken his research on Alexander the Great’s Afghan campaign and looked at Afghanistan. He doesn’t pretend…
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New types of search engines are popping up – this one shows you real time results http://collecta.com/in case you need to check the zeitgeist. It is cool that it holds your searches in the left sidebar and you can return for updates. Obviously, Michael Jackson is the hottest search at the moment. There’s been a…
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Moved here from Blogger. Found out I liked it here working with Annotation Nation. I don’t know about the Twittering thing, but will try it.
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“140 characters is a novel when you’re being shot at.” — tweeted from Iran
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the debate goes on, sorta… http://www.flatmancrooked.com/archives/3238 I’m about to get my MFA from a low residency program. There are disciplines that are well-suited to the online format and writing is one of them. It’s been a great experience to have a community that loves books as much as I do. We debate, share, offer moral…
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Green for the Iranian protesters. Not quite the shade, but as close as Blogger gets… Link to Persian novels http://www.mage.com/fictionbooks.html Also at Amazon
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Please check out Richard Garcia’s online classes if you are serious about your poetry. He also offers manuscript and chapbook consultation. Payment on an hourly basis. you can contact him through his website for more information. http://www.richardgarcia.info/ (hint, click on the opening in the bamboo forest to enter site… the dark part, yep, you got…
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Too many gray days here – I need sun. Not much to say, so will give you some links Have fun in France here and a small rant on Kanye West
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After 10 hours of sleep, I feel much better and ready to write. Doris Lessing maintains that there are no laws for the novel. Still pondering that one. In the meantime… a book of photos that change in the sun. Time to write….
Diane Sherlock 
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