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Ruth Paget's Blog
November 25, 2009
- No attempts at fancy prose today – just a simple, bulleted list of people and institutions, which have made my life better although not always enjoyable at the time in some cases. · Bertha Thomas and Susan Chandler – for letting me participate in the Detroit Inner City Youth Tour to the People’s Republic of China in 1979 when I was fifteen. What a feeling that was to ...
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November 22, 2009
- The National Gallery of Art’s online tour of Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory uses interactive web software to create an exhibit that shares the history, culture, and religious iconography of the Khmer civilization through text, video, and audio files. The majority of the artwork in the exhibit comes from the National Museum of Cambodia (Phnom Penh) and the ...
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November 18, 2009
- Peace at any price has never appealed to me; that philosophy allowed Nazi Germany to roll into Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Lithuania unopposed and set the stage for World War II. Peace at any price has permitted some leaders with nuclear arsenals, chemical weapons, and/or oil reserves to wantonly violate human rights and commit genocide in some cases. Peace is preferable, but not if it ...
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October 14, 2009
- About fourteen years ago my French in-laws took my four-year-old daughter Florence and me on a trip to New York. They did not speak English, so I greeted my first visit to New York in the guise of a tour guide. Even though I had grown up as a city girl in Detroit, the vagaries of reverse immigration meant that my Franco-American family was then diversifying the small town where we ...
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August 23, 2009
- An FYI for folks looking to publish their first graphic novel on their own. This organization may be of interest. I heard about them at a graphic novel workshop and read about them in Francisca Goldsmith's book Graphic Novels Now.http://www.xericfoundation.org/Best,Ruth
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March 28, 2009
- “Graphic novels are not gateways to literature; they are literature!”- Joe Ferrara, owner Atlantis Fantasyworld in Santa Cruz and Vice President of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Ferrara spoke at the Graphic Novel Workshop organized by the School and Public Librarians’ Association of the Monterey Bay Area on March 20th . Debbie Huey, author of ...
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February 12, 2009
- I just read about the Scriptfrenzy challenge in April 2009 - write a script in one month- http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/ .I like these writing challenges. They get me going. I am rereading some books that others might find helpful if they want to take part in this venture: The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Cretive Interpretation of Human Motives by Lajos Egri, andThe Screenwriter's ...
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January 3, 2009
- I taught myself Spanish by reading cookbooks and newspapers. I have graduated to more challenging works in art history, science,and wine appreciation. I am a firm believer in using authentic documents from the culture you are studying to master a language. Also,you should study topics that interest you to keep up your motivation especially when studying alone.The payoff for me has been ...
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January 2, 2009
- The Afghanistan Exhibit showing at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco till January 25, 2009 made me feel like a child again as I contemplated exploring this country's ancient cultures-childhood fascination is always a good state to be in for a writer.The works on display come from the National Museum in Kabul and represent archaeological sites spanning the period 2200 BCEto 200 CE.What ...
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January 1, 2009
- May all my Red Room colleagues write great work in 2009 whether it's books, articles, screenplays, poetry or letters to mom! After last night's festivities, I am up early and going to type my book proposal some more. What a jolly way to start the new year - ha ha. Happy New Year to all and thank you for the great blogs. Ruth :)
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December 25, 2008
- The second annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award is coming up in February. Check out entry rules and so on at www.amazon.com/abna My novel is too short for the contest, but all of the NaNoWriMo folks should be interested in this.Best,Ruth :)
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December 13, 2008
- Yeah! I finished my book - a teen love story! I've been thinking of that story for 20 years and finally got it in the computer. Thank you Red Room for bringing NaNoWriMo to my attention. Now that I'm done, maybe I can read all those pep talks NaNoWriMo sent out. I wish a similar competition existed for nonfiction works - I like writing memoirs. Maybe some contest does that I'm ...
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December 10, 2008
- As a daughter of Detroit, I've lived through some depressions that were recessions in the rest of the country before the current crisis. I'd like to share some optimism-sustaining ideas.1. Learn to cook - Not only will you save money, especially if you make weekly menus that make best use of your resources, you will be creative everyday. If you already know how to cook, try another ...
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December 6, 2008
- I just passed 23,000 words and hope to make it to the halfway mark tonight! I am late to the party, but I'm having fun after a long, stressful and depressing month. Ruth :)
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December 2, 2008
- My father passed away on November 3rd. I was able to start writing again this past weekend, since my wireless was down for five days. I am at 20,000 words and hope to finish by next weekend. Writing is therapeutic. I'm looking forward to joining the Red Room blogging community again. Ruth :)
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