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September 1, 2015
Weekend Edition – Conserving Your Creative Energy
Most of us, too often, forget the common-sense, imperative guidelines of sane living…
Today’s Re-Blog is a special reminder for all creative folks………
Originally posted on Live to Write - Write to Live:
Just. Can’t. Move. Another. Step.
I’m calling a time-out.
At least I wish I could, because sometimes life gets a little too crazy, and you just want to pull the emergency stop cord and bring the whole shebang...
August 31, 2015
Can There Be Art in a War Zone?
Writers are often challenged to not let things get in the way of their art…
Many readers aren’t aware of the intense struggles most authors have to go through…
I wonder how tough it is to write a book in a war zone…?
The last Gaza War, summer 2014, killed over 2,200 Palestinians, about 550 of them children.
Yes, there are people who fire rockets at Israel from the Gaza strip…
Somehow, though, the retaliation seems overbalanced…
Then, there’s the fact that most Gazans can’t even leave for a sa...
August 30, 2015
The Cooperative Children’s Book Center: A Reading Haven
Do you know a librarian?
Are you interested in books for children and youth?
Maybe you’re just an all-round book-nut? :-)
Read on………
Originally posted on Nerdy Book Club:
I started my journey to become a school librarian in 2006 when I enrolled as a part-time graduate student at the University of Wisconsin. Even though I had grown up in a small city near the university, I knew more about the college hockey team than I did about what was all housed on campus. It wasn’t unti...
August 29, 2015
10 Ways to Avoid Distractions While You Write
Yesterday I shared a lot of information about why you should check-out the Publishing-Aid company, FastPencil…
Now, here’s a Re-Blog from them to help you Keep Writing :-)
Originally posted on FastPencil.com Self-Publishing Blog:
Interesting read…how to avoid distractions while you write? In today’s world, we have so many distractions and we lose focus on what needs to get done! Here at FastPencil we provide an entire web application with very limited distractions and we w...
August 28, 2015
9 Reasons You Should Self-Publish (even if you don’t think you’re a writer…)
CLICK to VISIT FASTPENCiL
This post appears first among the31 articles about the Publishing-Aid Company, Fastpencil.
There are way more than 9 reasons to use Fastpencil in this particular post but I really like the number 9 and most folks probably don’t need more than 9 reasons to do anything…
But, let me explain the other part of the title of this post, “even if you don’t think you’re a writer”…
Fastpencil has free book-writing software that lets you invite friends to help you with the task...
August 27, 2015
WordPress Can’t Re-Blog & Amazon Has A Soul?
I recently reset my blogging schedule to more neatly accommodate the rest of my writing-life…
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I research and write an original blog post on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday—the other days of the week I re-blog…
Well, it’s Thursday and, for no known reason, WordPress isn’t showing any re-blog buttons…
So, to bow to my responsibility to my readers, I’m pausing my other writing tasks to manually say:
Check out J...
August 26, 2015
Book Recommendations to Stir Your Imagination and Perk-Up Your Creativity
There’s an organization called TEDthat shares video talks that are, usually, extremely interesting; and, often enough, quite amazing.
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From TED’s history page:
“TED was born in 1984 out of Richard Saul Wurman’s observation of a powerful convergence among three fields: technology, entertainment and design. The first TED included a demo of the compact disc, the e-book and cutting-edge 3D graphics from Lucasfilm, while mathemati...
August 25, 2015
In Which Self-publishing Cycle-stage Are You?
Thinking of Self-Publishing?
You’ll need a lot of help; and, this re-blog from one of my favorite publishers has some good advice…
Originally posted on FastPencil.com Self-Publishing Blog:
Partner with FastPencil for help during any stage of the self-publishing lifecycle.Complete your book project professionally, and stick to your desired budget.
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1. Find your audience, create buzz, fund your project. Raise funds, collect pre-orders, market your book and gauge audi...
August 24, 2015
Something for #Readers & #Writers . . .
This blog is like me—more maverick than classifiable…
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I report on Reading, Writing, and Publishing on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
I Re-Blog others’ posts on those three topics the other days of the week.
I am an author and I like to give my stuff away (see the left side-bar…).
Of course, if you’re a regular visitor, you know all this; but, I get most of my traffic from unsuspecting folks putting w...
August 23, 2015
The Muse Needs Exercise as Much as the Body
If you’re a writer, you may have already seen the advice this Re-Blog offers…
…but…
…it does bear repeating………
Originally posted on Live to Write - Write to Live:
We all know that it’s important to exercise our bodies. But it’s also as important to exercise the muse.
Without exercise, the body can waste away, get used to inactivity to the point where it doesn’t want to do anything, or even stop working all together.
The writing muse is similar — without regular activity, th...
