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An Attack On Culture ~ Trashing A Book Market

“Security forces destroyed the kiosks…, causing damage to priceless collections of books…” “Those were bookshops which housed a wealth of culture.” “…despite holding a permit for the past 34 years, it was destroyed by the Ministry of Interior.” “You have destroyed the livelihood of simple vendors and prevented poor people from reading and their pursuit [...]

Author Interview ~ John William Rice

Today’s post is number 36 of our Author Interviews, with some of our writers still working on their first book and some with many books to their credit—ranging in age from their teens to their seventies. In fact, John is the person who edged the age up to seventy :-) ~~~~~~~~~ John, let’s start with [...]

Blogging, The Way It “Should” Be Done . . .

I’ve been blogging for about four years—one of my previous blogs is now a book (8.5X11, hardbound with color pics for $172 or a Free Download :-) This blog is a year and eight months old—I’m still learning how to Blog… However, there’s a woman who I feel has mastered the Art—Maria Popova. I put [...]

Humor, Irony, Exaggeration, and Ridicule . . .

This post is mostly for writers so those of you who come to this blog for articles on reading could profitably skip this one and, instead, click on “Reading” in the Top Tags widget in the left side-bar ( there are 42 posts :-) The words in the title of this post are straight out [...]

How To Read Like A Writer

Writers read other creative writers to learn how to write. So, who taught the first writer?? <

A Short Post About Some BIG Writing Resources…

We have, as of today, 43 posts on this blog about Writers’ Resources. Today, I’ll reveal one more that may, for some of you, dwarf all the rest… Great Writers Inspire ~ Learning from The Past This is an on-going initiative by the University of Oxford. As they say on the site: The selection of [...]

Author Interview ~ Dan Holt

We now have 35 Author Interviews on this site—some writers still working on their first book, some with many books to their credit—ranging in age from their teens to their sixties. Today’s interview is special because the author is also a creative writing professor as well as a productive citizen of the virtual world Second [...]

Do Authors Still Need Publishers?

I can hear some folks saying, “Hell, No!!”, and some others saying, “Of, course.”. Yes, I put a trailing period on that last sentence—I’m a maverick… Maverick enough to be “nearly” self-published—using FastPencil which is a “publishing-aide” company, not legacy. If you want to see other posts we’ve had here on this topic, just click [...]

Take Back Those Words !

Have you ever read something and wished the author hadn’t published it? Have you ever published something and wished you could wipe it off the face of the earth? Certainly, writers (of worth) take back many of their words during edits and revisions—sometimes, of course, restoring them, then, removing them, then, perhaps, trashing the whole [...]

Global Readers & Writers

I live in the U.S.A. but I work hard to be a productive World Citizen. Quite often, nationalistic pride can stand in the way of readers finding writers from countries other than their own, whether that pride is in the reader themselves or is the pride of the publishing business in their country. In many [...]