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  • slush pile

    Great new post by Seth Fischer up at The Rumpus about the slush pile. He also links to this hilarious post on the DABDA of publishing.

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  • what you need for humor

    Yesterday I read an appallingly bad script that purported to be a comedy. There was nothing original or funny about it. It was a string of cliches and a few set pieces in which characters acted out for no particular reason. None of the action was grounded in character. Yeah, I didn’t like it! It…

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  • Happy New Year!

    What’s your incentive to keep going when the writing’s a tough slog? I”m trying something different to start the new year. I was having difficulty keeping up with my writing schedule last summer into fall and then my mom passed away in late September. In taking care of all those details such as notifying Social…

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  • Live in a library!

    Continuing with our library theme…. Some of us tried to do this as kids. Now you really can. Well, if you have a spare $2,495,000, you can. Perhaps it’s time to buy that lottery ticket. I find I have mixed feelings about this. Mostly, I’m sad that this is no longer an actual library.

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  • Flash Fiction

    Rose City Sisters is running a flash fiction contest and my friend, Bonnie Schroeder, has a story up. Check it out! (it won’t take long!)

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  • Beautiful Libraries

    Amazing libraries! However, they did not include the one from Disney’s Beauty & the Beast! There are more here. Here’s one more personal library

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  • the nook

    Popular Mechanics rates B&N’s e-reader, the Nook (no one seems to like the name) Now I’m going to go curl up with my Kindle.

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  • new again

    Writing is fun again! Yesterday something shifted when I was working on the novel, filling in thin places – things clicked back into place. Helped even more when I took a long walk through Fryman. Solved a few problems – I tend to write through a draft and leave sections to fill in later, hence…

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  • the e-reader

    From old to new… First pictures of Barnes and Noble’s new e-reader.  What’s that, Kindle? You hear footsteps? The light at the top is a nice touch. I like my Kindle, but I’ll go have a look when the e-reader arrives in stores. It debuts October 20 in New York. National Book Award finalists have…

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