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November 21, 2008
- With so many gizmos and gadgets that need to be charged on a regular basis these days, it can get a little crazy trying to remember where each charger is located and which charger connects to which device. In 10 minutes collect all of you chargers in your home or office, plug in an extension (multi-outlet) cord and create a charging station. Label each cord for which device it belongs to and ...
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November 20, 2008
- A week or two ago I came up with a blog entry to help ghost writers work more efficiently with there clients. The basis of it is a framework that I am developing. I would love to have any thoughts, ideas, refinements, suggestions and etc. that folks may care to give.The framework:Step 1 -- what is the book about? This should be a broad discussion outside of the context of a manuascript (e.g. just ...
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November 7, 2008
- today I am in search of advice from the multitude of Red Room readers, writers, bloggers and etc.The story goes, a little over two years ago--on the morning I was going for a colonoscopy--I received a call from an agent on a query and sample from my manuscript of collected short stories. He said that he loved the stories, they excited him as to their potential even though short story collections ...
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November 7, 2008
- today I am in search of advice from the multitude of Red Room readers, writers, bloggers and etc.The story goes, a little over two years ago--on the morning I was going for a colonoscopy--I received a call from an agent on a query and sample from my manuscript of collected short stories. He said that he loved the stories, they excited him as to their potential even though short story collections ...
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October 31, 2008
- I so need your help. I'm in trouble. I'm late. I haven't ordered my books yet for next semester. And I can tell you why. It's because this semester, I walked into a class almost completely filled with second language international students, most of whom are in the midst and not the end of language acquisition, and the first assigned text was Hamlet. For most native speakers, ...
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October 22, 2008
- When I was a teenager, I promised my parents I would write the Great American Novel.This got me out of spending a summer as a clerk at Bloomie's, where my mother worked and where she had helped land me a summer job. It's not that I was against making money; I wasn't, although I never put it as the highest priority or even any sort of priority. I just wanted to go cross-country with my friends and ...
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October 1, 2008
- This may come as a shock to some, but if you really want to be successful as a writer, the first thing you need to learn is how to be a success without anyone else's help — or NOT expect it — as the case may be. I cannot believe the number of people with a sense of entitlement and the world-owes-me-a-living syndrome in North America today. I often wonder how these people get through life. ...
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June 22, 2008
- I got an e-mail on my Google account from a lady at The Mississipi State University who would like to do my play, A Man Called Rejoice, with her students. I’d love to offer her permission, but her e-mail address ends in .edu and, if I try to reply, the system locks up.Anyone got advice?
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June 20, 2008
- Sometimes writing can be a drag. There are woderful, inspirational moments where it all flows, then there is the rest of the time. So far, I've got the preface and first three chapters written, and so far I've gotten great feedback. Right now, though, it's the rest of the time. So some of what I've been doing is to work on the story arc, writing different scenes as inspiration strikes, ...
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May 17, 2008
- “For the damage to his community,I asked(a local search and rescue director), how many have died? He breaks down in tears. Up to 500 have been killed, he said, including his parents, wife and children. In the midst of his anguish, there is a call over his radio, he’s needed again, and goes back to work.” –John Vause, CNN. ...
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