JYProvocative Question #11 – Memoir (Thanksgiving Edition) A great non-Thanksgiving question for a Thanksgiving day. Thank you for not asking for gratitude, prayers, or anything remotely political. Have you read a memoir that surprised you? In what way? These three… Read More ›
Blogging Insights 3.0 # 12 — Reading I think we all learn to write or discover we want to write by reading. I can’t imagine any other way to discover you want to write. But the question of what to… Read More ›
Fandango’s Provocative Question #198 Unless AI “brains” suddenly develop an ability to grow intelligence beyond what was built into them, it won’t happen. That being said, it doesn’t mean they won’t take over huge sections of writing currently held by live… Read More ›
To Melanie’s two part “Share My World” — How do I feel about Harry Potter? I’m grinding slowly towards the conclusion of our refinance. As of this morning, we have cleared all the hurdles. They needed this month’s mortgage payment… Read More ›
Fandango’s Dog Days of August #8 I’m afraid to admire anyone these days. Just when I think I’ve found someone really admirable, I discover that they’ve been abusing women, molesting children, or have a secret fascination with pederasty. So I think… Read More ›
Half a dozen times during the past few months, I’ve seen the sunrise and heard the birds wake and sing the morning in. I have sometimes gotten up very early to see the sunrise and take pictures. It is the… Read More ›
Many (maybe most) manuscripts are never are “trendy” or popular enough for today’s publishers. As far as publishers go, no matter how well-written or interesting the plot or characters are if it isn’t a genre they sell, it doesn’t exist…. Read More ›
Why do publishers ONLY publish potential best-sellers? Many books we read from in those old days were not wildly popular. Publishers understood a good book deserved publication, even if it wouldn’t be a bestseller. Our literature would be a very… Read More ›
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Welcome to the “HALLOWEEN FUN – GET YOUR SPOOK ON” Weekend Blog Tour! 13 Spooky Writing Prompts to ignite your imagination. Bats and cats, owls and howls, trick-or-treat, hosts and ghosts. Kids, have fun…
Wednesday RDP – COPYRIGHT Martha wrote a little piece this morning titled “Can You Enforce it? (and Rambling Nonsense) by Martha Ann Kennedy. It’s good reading. Pretty much everything Martha writes is good reading, even when I don’t agree but especially… Read More ›
EVOKING IDEAS, EVOKING DREAMS – BOOKS AND MORE BOOKS Seriously, I don’t understand how it happened. I don’t have a job. I am definitely, absolutely 100% retired. Yet — I’m always busy! It’s probably all the reading. In recent months,… Read More ›
These are not necessarily my favorite posts, though a few are. These are posts that got a lot of hits — and are not reblogs. I also — with one exception — didn’t include photo-only posts. It was too much… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 