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A half dozen famous writers and their day jobs, complete with salaries adjusted to today’s dollars. Happy St. Patrick’s Day. If green beer isn’t your thing, here are a few green cocktails.
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Thanks to Leonard Chang for this link to 100 free applications of interest to writers. Enjoy and have a productive week.
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Various authors rules for writing, some serious, some not so much. Plus, science supports procrastination, um, taking a walk. Getting ready to go off the grid for a dozen or so days, so will likely not be blogging for a bit.
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Ron Charles, Washington Post Fiction Editor, tweeted this article on the habit of writing this morning. I was talking with my accountability partner yesterday about writing, realizing that when he asked me about Steinbeck’s letters, JS influenced me greatly from the beginning. I took to heart Steinbeck’s advice to work a lot of different jobs…
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Dani Shapiro has a few thoughts on what it takes to keep going as a writer. Congratulations to the New Orleans Saints! Second half of the SuperBowl was pretty good. I am about to go into football withdrawals – at least there is still the Combine (Feb 24 – Mar 2) and the Draft (April…
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Getting close to finishing my novel. As I accelerate toward the end, I’ve noticed I’m writing a lot of dialog and not a lot of much else. I think it’s like sketching and will go back in to fill in the details. I also have to go back and look at the stakes. That’s easy…
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The best thing about getting into the flow of writing is that it becomes easier to make the series of decisions to create a scene. Steve Almond (go buy his book of flash fiction and essays on writing now) and others have pointed out that writing is decision-making. It follows that if you want to…
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Happy Friday! Something to think about over the weekend: Dialog is people saying no to each other in interesting ways. It is about people talking, but can often be about people not communicating (thanks to Rob Roberge) The Book Publicity Blog makes the case for authors not approaching show producers on their own. Pamela Dorman…
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Oh dear. I just figured out what I need to do to be done with this novel before my vacation. I really need 5 good pages a day. That seems daunting at the moment. Here is a roundup of writerly habits. It runs the gamut – no big surprise there. No formula, except finding what…
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Neil Gaiman’s library to be specific. Still trying to distract myself from the Chargers depressing loss to the Jets (heavy sigh). Variety of book reviews. I was most interested in Joshua Ferris’ The Unnamed. I am less interested after looking through the reviews, though most are giving him props for taking a risk.
Diane Sherlock 
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