Terry Shames's Blog: 7 Criminal Minds, page 158
July 10, 2019
One of these things is not like the other... by Cathy Ace
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July 9, 2019
Read What Ya Write?
Do you read the kind of books that you write or do you tend to read books that are the opposite or different – and why?
From Frank
I answered a similar question to this last month in this post. But this question has a distinction, in that it is much broader -- reading habits in general, as opposed to when one is writing.
On Deck non-fictionI like to have a few books going at once....as many as four or more. There are the bedside books, which I read at night. There's the audiobook on my phone, fo...
From Frank
I answered a similar question to this last month in this post. But this question has a distinction, in that it is much broader -- reading habits in general, as opposed to when one is writing.
On Deck non-fictionI like to have a few books going at once....as many as four or more. There are the bedside books, which I read at night. There's the audiobook on my phone, fo...
July 8, 2019
Yummy, yummy books!
Q: Do you read the kind of books that you write or do you tend to read books that are the opposite or different – and why?
-from Susan
I’m a book omnivore. July is only a few days old but I have already read or am reading one mystery, one historical fiction, one current ecological non-fiction, one geological history non-fiction. Competing for the top spot when one opens are a police procedural set in Ireland, a police procedural set in India, a how-to book on writing crime fiction, and a non-fi...
-from Susan
I’m a book omnivore. July is only a few days old but I have already read or am reading one mystery, one historical fiction, one current ecological non-fiction, one geological history non-fiction. Competing for the top spot when one opens are a police procedural set in Ireland, a police procedural set in India, a how-to book on writing crime fiction, and a non-fi...
July 5, 2019
How to be Excel-lent
By Abir
What’s the most valuable business skill that you’ve used in your writing career. Can be anything from contract negotiation to typing to computer programming, like HTML and making your own website, or anything else?
That’s a tough question. My day-job was as an accountant, and it’s fair to say not all of the skills I learnt at the accounting coal-face are readily transferrable to the cloistered, hallowed world of writing. Don’t get me wrong. I wish they were. I mean, I spent a lot of tim...
What’s the most valuable business skill that you’ve used in your writing career. Can be anything from contract negotiation to typing to computer programming, like HTML and making your own website, or anything else?
That’s a tough question. My day-job was as an accountant, and it’s fair to say not all of the skills I learnt at the accounting coal-face are readily transferrable to the cloistered, hallowed world of writing. Don’t get me wrong. I wish they were. I mean, I spent a lot of tim...
July 3, 2019
Answer the Bell
What’s the most valuable business skill that you’ve used in your writing career. Can be anything from contract negotiation to typing to computer programming, like HTML and making your own website, or anything else?
Happy Fourth of July
From Jim
Before I embarked on my writing career, I worked for many years in academia and in Hollywood post-production. Putting to one side the everyday skills one acquires in business, such as typing, pencil-sharpening, and water-cooler banter, I’d say that the mo...
Happy Fourth of July
From Jim
Before I embarked on my writing career, I worked for many years in academia and in Hollywood post-production. Putting to one side the everyday skills one acquires in business, such as typing, pencil-sharpening, and water-cooler banter, I’d say that the mo...
Don’t dangle your participles
What’s the most valuable business skill that you’ve used in your writing career. Can be anything from contract negotiation to typing to computer programming, like HTML and making your own website, or anything else?
by Dietrich
Financial management, people skills, sales, marketing, communication, project management, public speaking, delegation, problem solving, networking. I’m not an expert at any of those things, but I’ve learned at least a little along the way.
When I was submitting short...
by Dietrich
Financial management, people skills, sales, marketing, communication, project management, public speaking, delegation, problem solving, networking. I’m not an expert at any of those things, but I’ve learned at least a little along the way. When I was submitting short...
July 2, 2019
One Hundred Words Per Minute
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July 1, 2019
The Business End. by Brenda Chapman
Question: What’s the most valuable business skill that you’ve used in your writing career. Can be anything from contract negotiation to typing to computer programming, like HTML and making your own website, or anything else?
Looking over all the suggestions, I realize I’m sadly lacking in business skills! Luckily, you can hire people to help with most of the nitty gritty, such as computer programming and setting up a website and taxes.
However, I have found that my background is in Communicatio...
June 28, 2019
All Summer Long
Here comes the summer! Are summers a distinct stretch of the year for you? What's this one got in store?
by Paul D. Marks
Every now and then we hear our song,We've been having fun all summer long. —All Summer Long by Brian Wilson & Mike Love—Performed by the Beach Boys
When I was younger summer was more of a distinct time for me. We’d load up the Woody—okay so it wasn’t a classic Woody, but it was a station wagon with fake wood sides—and go on a Surfin’ Safari, Surfin’ USA, from “…Del...
by Paul D. Marks
Every now and then we hear our song,We've been having fun all summer long. —All Summer Long by Brian Wilson & Mike Love—Performed by the Beach Boys
When I was younger summer was more of a distinct time for me. We’d load up the Woody—okay so it wasn’t a classic Woody, but it was a station wagon with fake wood sides—and go on a Surfin’ Safari, Surfin’ USA, from “…Del...
June 27, 2019
A Tale of Two Summers ... by Catriona
Life: Here comes the summer! Are summers a distinct stretch of the year for you? What's this one got in store?
I really do have two summers. The first one, June and July, is at home in California, where the temperature climbs into triple digits, the grass turns yellow and crunchy, the watermelon is 10c a pound at the farm stand and I frantically try to get two books edited and handed over to my agent.
I love this summer. It's sunny every day - and that still feels like a miracle to a Scot, even...
I really do have two summers. The first one, June and July, is at home in California, where the temperature climbs into triple digits, the grass turns yellow and crunchy, the watermelon is 10c a pound at the farm stand and I frantically try to get two books edited and handed over to my agent.
I love this summer. It's sunny every day - and that still feels like a miracle to a Scot, even...
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