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Monday Funnies with MAXINE

Mira Prabhu:

Maxine, who incidentally lives on Crabby Road, has some marvelous bits and pieces to crack you up this morning…love you Maxine, and thanks Story Reading Ape!

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Review: The Wizard, the girl and the unicorn’s horn by Kevin Cooper

Mira Prabhu:

“I loved reading this book because it took me away to another realm filled with fantasy creatures, adventure and humor”….if that wonderful opening sentence grabs you, check this book out for yourself….

Originally posted on petitemagique:

I loved reading this book because it took me away to another realm filled with fantasy creatures, adventure and humor.

One of the things I like most about this book are the dialogues that flow so naturally. You can almost hear the characters talk!

The story is easy to read and grabs you from the very beginning. Soon, you don’t want to return home anymore. Kevin uses the right words to paint the surroundings so that the reader gets sucked into this magical world.

The characters are very appealing and come to life on the pages.

Also, the humor in this book is used very cleverly at the right times to make you smile or even laugh out loud.

After a couple of chapters, the story speeds up and you don’t want to put the book down anymore.

I would recommend this book to anyone who loves to read a…

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Monkey See, Monkey Run Like Hell

Mira Prabhu:

Monkey See, Monkey Run Like Hell…I love Jo Robinson’s style…she is the REAL deal…check her out for yourself and enjoy!

Originally posted on Jo Robinson:

I can’t be messing around much if I’m going to get anything published at all this year. With things still being CRAZY hectic around here, and me not having much time to write, distracting me from my work is not a good idea when I’m hard at it in the little time I do have. Especially when I’m really getting a lot done quickly. These epic word rolls don’t happen often, and it’s particularly difficult to get my attention when I’m on one. Success at finally getting my attention at such a time is never going to be a good thing – for man or beast. Birds don’t count, because they’re generally attached to me, so part of the process. While I would be the last person to want to hurt any sort of creature on the planet, that doesn’t mean that every single one of them makes me come…

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Elmore Leonard: 10 Rules

Mira Prabhu:

Elmore Leonard: 10 Rules for Writing…what do you think? Thank you Brian Marggraf!

Originally posted on Indie Hero:

Elmore Leonard: 10 Rules

Among all the lists of writing rules and advice, this one ranks high, in my opinion. Simple, yet so important.

 Never open a book with weather.
 Avoid prologues.
 Never use a verb other than “said” to carry dialogue.
 Never use an adverb to modify the verb “said”…he admonished gravely.
 Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
 Never use the words “suddenly” or “all hell broke loose.”
 Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
 Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
 Don’t go into great detail describing places and things.
 Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.

My most important rule is one that sums up the 10.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.

 * Excerpted from the New York Times article, “Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle”

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Hemingway’s “Iceberg Theory” of Writing

Mira Prabhu:

Hemingway’s “Iceberg Theory” of Writing…profoundly interesting to me, and I’m sure, to all those of us who read and write with passion…I personally write what I know…whether through direct experience or via intuition…

Originally posted on 101 Books:

If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing. –Ernest Hemingway

Before I wrap up The Sun Also Rises (review coming tomorrow), I thought I’d take one more look at Hemingway’s writing style.

He called it the “Iceberg Theory,” and  it’s a great descriptor of his style.

Essentially, he gives you the facts—those hard facts are the tip of the iceberg floating above water. Everything else—the supporting structure—floats beneath the water, out of sight from the reader.

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Here’s A Guy Who Wrote His Own Epitaph

Mira Prabhu:

John O’Hara…a man who apparently wrote his own glowing epitaph…thank you Robert!

Originally posted on 101 Books:

It’s said that John O’Hara wrote the epitaph that appears on his tombstone.

You catch that? He wrote his own epitaph.

“Better than anyone else, he told the truth about his time, the first half of the twentieth century. He was a professional.”

“Better than anyone else.” Who says that about themselves—on our their own tombstone, no less?

John O’Hara…that’s who.

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First Night Design | Me, Paul Klee, and Scleroderma

Mira Prabhu:

Me, Paul Klee, and Scleroderma…fascinating post about transmuting illness into creative genius…thank you Sarah Vernon!

Originally posted on First Night Design:

Hairdryer in Marc’s Garden by Paul Klee (1915) © First Night Vintage

Available on Greeting Cards, Postcards, Prints, Stamps & Wrapped Canvas

It’s a very strange feeling when you discover that an artist you admire had the same disabling illness as you have, especially when it’s relatively rare, not to mention impossible to describe succinctly. Paul Klee — though it wasn’t diagnosed until ten years after his death in 1940 — had Scleroderma, an autoimmune condition that can be utterly debilitating. I have wanted to write about Scleroderma and its affect on my life and work for some time but I never thought I would be doing so with reference to Paul Klee!

Paul Klee in 1911, photographed by Alexander Eliasberg

In essence, Scleroderma in all its forms is a chronic circulatory and connective tissue disorder in which the body’s defences attack its own organs and tissues. The Raynaud’s & Scleroderma Association website

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The Sunday Show – Mira Prabhu – Author of Whip of the Wild God.

Mira Prabhu:

Sally Cronin’s Interview of Mira Prabhu…she had some terrific questions for me — so do sneak a peek! And thank you Smorgasbord, for all you do to support us authors!

Originally posted on Smorgasbord - Variety is the spice of life:

Welcome to the new series of the Sunday Show and in the coming weeks you will meet some of the extraordinary and very creative people that I am so delighted to have come into contact with.  This week an author who weaves a magical story set in ancient India that flows like silk and spellbinds the reader.  Mira Prabhu sharing her beliefs, love of India and of course her writing.

As a regular feature I will be including a new theme each week. Sunday Lunch. As part of the interview I will be asking my guests to introduce me to three guests either from the past or present who they will be inviting and why. Also the two course meal served beverages and music to accompany the meal. Let me say at this point that Richard Gere is already spoken for at my event!

 

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Dream 273: Be A Man

Mira Prabhu:

Dissecting your BIG dreams is a great way to open up to the richness of your inner life…even the most shocking dreams are merely guides to growth…thanks Steven Fox!

Originally posted on Dreams: Guide to the Soul:

Dream 273: A 33-year-old man dreamt that he fathered a child with his younger brother’s girlfriend.

Interpretation

To begin to take this dream apart, one has to realize that each character in the dream represents a part of the dreamers psyche or mind. Men tend to go with action part while women usually represent emotional parts of the mind.

The first step is to find out what his brother and his girlfriend separately represent to the dreamer. His brother was younger and impulsive and extroverted and social. So his brother represents action. The dreamer himself was a passive accountant who was introverted.

So the dream is calling for the dreamer to be more extroverted and somewhat impulsive. His subconscious is trying to move him from being passive into being more actively involved with others. A new baby represents a new part of the dreamer’s mind. In that way, it represents…

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Remember

Mira Prabhu:

Remember that little grammar rule about” i” before “e ” except after “c”? Well, as the Story Reading Ape says about the Arch Druidess’ latest post on ancient Egypt — SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE!!!

Originally posted on Adventures and Musings of an Arch Druidess:

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