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Minding or Bending Rules

 Q: What’s your position on ending a sentence with a preposition,  grammar others might be afraid of? What non-grammatical writing styles do you firmly support?

 

-       from Susan

 

As a former writer of academically-oriented texts (not a scholar), I worked in the language that represented literate administrations, their presidents, and higher ed institutions in general. The language had to have a certain tone, cadence, and rhythm. Frequently, I was tasked with making the case for something that m...

Too Impatient to Listen - by Harini Nagendra

If you listen to audio versions of books, do you also read them? Why or why not? Or do you never listen and, if not, why not?

Harini here– responding to this week's question, but filling this in a day late, as we’ve had a major power and internet outagehere in Bangalore. Climate change, everyone - it's been raining, and our infrastructure is not equipped to deal with this level of stress. I just read a fascinating - and scary - piece in The Atlantic about how heat is going to stress cities beca...

Tell Me a Story from James W. Ziskin

 If you listen to audio versions of books, do you also read them? Why or why not? Or do you never listen and, if not, why not?

I love audiobooks. I listen to them every chance I get. There’s something of a group activity feel to it. Maybe audiobooks remind me of my mother reading to me when I was a child. Or maybe I’m just a slow, lazy reader. Whatever the reason, I like to be read to in the car or at home after a long day of work.
Often, when writer friends ask me to read their books for a possib...

Listen up good

If you listen to audio versions of books, do you also read them? Why or why not? Or do you never listen and, if not, why not?

by Dietrich

I enjoy kicking back and reading a book, it’s a quiet reward at the end of a day. Then there are times when I’d rather hear an audiobook, like while I’m engaged in doing some simple task that could use some spicing up. Perhaps reading a book engages my imagination more, allowing me to paint the scenes in my mind rather than having someone else describe what’s...

Hello? Hello? Can You Hear Me?

 

Terry here with our question of the week:If you listen to audio versions of books, do you also read them? Why or why not? Or do you never listen and, if not, why not?
 I can’t say I’ve never listened to audiobooks. I have. At least three that I remember. Two of them were books by Bill Bryson that I’d already read, and one was Blind Faith, by Leslie Budewitz (writing as Alicia Beckman) that I read last year when I had to make an 11-hour round-trip drive.
I thoroughly enjoyed all three. 
 Why have...

Getting Into Audiobooks

If you listen to audio versions of books, do you also read them? Why or why not? Or do you never listen and, if not, why not?

Brenda

True confession. I have never listened to an audiobook all the way through. Not even my own.

Nearly all of my books have been made into audiobooks by a couple of publishers and I have links to all of them ... somewhere. I also had a hand in producing two audiobooks from my latest series - Blind Date and When Last Seen. For these two books, I listened to every chapter ...

One Perfect Moment In A Writers Life, by Josh Stallings

Q: What single moment of being a published writer has been the most memorable?

A: Not a single moment, but kaleidoscopic moments spent with fellow writers, reviewers, agents and readers. Moments I’d never have had if not for being published.

At a signing for my memoir a woman stepped up speaking softly through tears, “You told my story. Facts are different, but the feelings… The feelings, they’re mine.” 

Crossing the Mississippi river on a ferry, rain drizzling down listening to my wife Erika...

Unbreakable spirits (although they keep trying), by Catriona

What single moment of being a published writer has been the most memorable?

I write this sitting, not in the kitchen sink, but outside a winery on the regular Wednesday write-in of the Wednesday Writers. So I thought I'd ask them.

Lisa, Spring, Tamsen

Eileen Rendahl, who's not actually here tonight because she's off on a troll hunt (i.e. looking at the giant wooden trolls of Oregon, not fighting cyber-bullies - although imagine if she was doing both. I'd watch that show.), texted to say that her sw...

Remember that time...? by Eric Beetner

 What single moment of being a published writer has been the most memorable?

I’ve been a very lucky writer and after 15 years since my first novel was published, I have a host of memories. If I had to total them up, surely my good memories outnumber the bad ones. However, as any creative knows, it’s the bad ones that stick with you.

So for every kind word a writing hero has said about my work, for every book I’ve signed, every glowing review I’ve gotten, every awards ceremony I’ve attended, there ...

Second Chances by Gabriel Valjan

What single moment ofbeing a published writer has been the most memorable?

 

I’ve enjoyed many memorable moments as a published writer,from nominations that I never thought would come my way, to invitations tomoderate panels and contribute to anthologies, to meeting Walter Mosley, BUT Ithink every writer would agree with me and say that seeing their first book thefirst time is an indescribable accomplishment. It’s your firstborn, your book baby.

           

Which is why I’d like to shi...