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This Itch of Writing:
A friend, the novelist Rosy Thornton, went to hear Sebastian Faulks talking, and reports thus:*He said that the advice ‘write what you know’ is the worst advice given to anyone, ever. He says that when he talks to young writers he says, DON’T write about what you know. He tells them, write about the past, the future, other (Read More)
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Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen:
"But it’s the same laptop!" my wife said. I've been using a Lenovo T60 or T60p for a very long time. Since it came out, in fact. I had a T60 at my last job for years, and a T60p all the while at Microsoft. I have happily running 64-bit operating systems on my T60p with 4gigs of RAM…unfortunately with the caveat that the T6 (Read More)
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Submitted by Krisnelson
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Many thanks to Dan and the rest of the Prawfs community for inviting me to join the conversation once more. Lately, I’ve been thinking about constitutional borrowing, which is the practice of lifting legal frameworks, standards, mechanisms, and the like from one area of constitutional law for use in another, seemingly irr (Read More)
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Submitted by The Puck
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Apparently, I’m supposed to read my clients’ minds. I’m supposed to know exactly the style, content, and length of every project a client wants taken care of, typically on the basis of a one-line email.I’m pretty sure I’m not the only freelancer who is expected to offer telepathy as a form of client communication, either. A (Read More)
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Incurable Disease of Writing:
Welcome to the July 3, 2009 edition of Just Write. Enjoy this week’s articles and remember to show the blog owner’s we appreciate their efforts by commenting and socially bookmarking. Have a safe and happy Independence Day, Americans! Contests Andy presents $200 Article Writing Contest posted at Health Fitness Art (Read More)
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Confident Writing:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.Talk about the language of possibility!Then, now, still.~~~Happy 4th July to all my readers in the U.S. Post from: (Read More)
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Daily Writing Tips:
In the old days writers could send out their queries and fantasize for weeks about acceptance before getting that crumpled little self-addressed envelope with its bad news back in the mail. Nowadays, thanks to email, we can be zapped with rejection in a matter of minutes!Nevertheless, email queries are a boon to writer an (Read More)
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Submitted by Quinny
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I should let you all know that I am - gasp! - double blogging this.Not as gross as double dipping; maybe a little more like re-gifting,but only because the original gift was so good I couldn't keep it formyself. Anyway, there's a slightly different post on this topic over onsymmetrybreaking as well. "Time, I think, is a l (Read More)
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Altsounds:
Four Year Strong are currently writing their new album so it came as a huge surprise to me when I received what appeared to be the new Four Year Strong album in the mail for review. What? Hopefully you are as confused as I was.So I put the record on and set to find out what was happening here. Turns out that during the p (Read More)
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Submitted by Dennismcguire
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Today, Sam Donnellon of the Philadelphia Daily News wrote a column titled, "Believe it or not, Phillies doing fine". Allow me to get my FJM on, if you will.YOU SEE BAD things arising. You see trouble on the way.Yes, yes I do.You see the Phillies as a team still hung over from the intoxication of last year's championship, un (Read More)
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Daily Writing Tips:
A blog is a wonderful tool for anyone looking to improve his or her writing skills. Why? Because it forces you to write, day after day. If you are an aspiring writer (freelance or otherwise), a blog is even more important, because it works as a marketing platform where you can expose your writing, build your audience and ne (Read More)
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Write to Done:
A guest post by David Masters“I don’t think you can write - at least not well - if you don’t love stories.”~ Nora Roberts“To hell with facts! We need stories!” ~ Ken KeseyAn Ancient Greek Parable on How to Captivate Your AudienceDemades, the Ancient Greek orator, is about to address an assembly in Athens on a matter of vita (Read More)
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Submitted by A Cosgrove Bray
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If you have ever fancied giving up your day-job to write full-time, here's an excellent and practical article: http://writersdigest.com/article/10-questions-writers-must-ask-before-quitting-their-day-job/. (Read More)
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Confident Writing:
“There is no use trying,” said Alice; “one can’t believe impossible things.”“I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” ~ Lewis CarrollIt’s a great quote, isn’t it? (Read More)
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Submitted by Definitive Carib
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The prospect of writing even a review of a biography Jean Rhys is slightly scary. She wrote formidably depressing books, including a particularly lugubrious – if admirably clever - take on the Caribbean, Wide Sargasso Sea (she took the character of the mad creole woman, Rochester’s first wife, in the attic in Jane Eyre and (Read More)
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