In the Sunday review section of the NY Times, Phil Klay, the author of “Redeployment”, a forthcoming collection of short stories, writes on the subject of experiences of veterans in war in an article entitled “After War, A Failure of Imagination“. As a former Marine, he relates conversations with civilian friends and acquaintances on the […]
Meryl Streep and A Sword-Wielding Commando
What families do to each other. August: Osage County A critique of Meryl and the movie. #Email Marketing and Your Average #Author Do all bloggers need email marketing? Your first everything will probably be terrible (and that’s okay) Encouragement ‘Mad Jack’, the sword-wielding Commando of World War II Eccentricity If […]
Against Sending Your Blog Readers on a Space Walk w/o a Tether
Page Views We watch the page view stats on our blog because the number of page views are more important than the number of unique visits we get daily. If we have more page views than visits in our daily statistics it indicates that we are successful in keeping our visitors on our page, moving around, […]
Groucho Marx and The Queen of the Desert
Writing Funny with Jake Bourke Hello, I Must Be Going Writer’s Workout: Divorcing the Draft Reach For Your Scissors Gertrude Bell: The uncrowned Queen of the Desert Move Over Lawrence! If you like this post please consider subscribing. From my daily copy of Paper.li , I choose four articles from […]
Books You Wear and The Mysterious Semi-Viral Tweet
‘Wearable Book’ Lets You Experience Your Favorite Book Character’s Emotions Far Out English Historical Fiction Authors: Castles 101 All About Castles Why You Should Use Images on Twitter and 3 Tips to Doing it Right Comprehensive Treatment of the Subject The Mysterious Case of the Semi-Viral Tweet How did this […]
Can Novel Newbies Learn Anything From Elite Athletes?
This post starts out at the NY Times article by Gina Kolata entitled “Training Insights From Star Athletes” of January 14, 2013. http://nyti.ms/UNpDPE Here’s how Gina begins: Of course elite athletes are natually gifted . And of course they train hard and may have a phalanx of support staff – coaches, nutritionists, psychologists. But they often have something else that gives […]
Everything Old is Newagen: Historic Southport Inn
Southport is an island in the Boothbay region of Midcoast, Maine. It is where I live. The Newagen Inn is at the furthest tip of the island which has been known as Newagen (say New Wagon) since the earliest days when it was a fishing station in 1623. Here is an article in the Boothbay […]
Waltzing Gaily and The Classic Jaguar Grill
WALTZING GAILY OUT OF THE HOUSE IN YOUR UNDERWEAR… Editing Your Novel Top Ten Michael Caine Films And the Winner is… Balboa Park Botanical Garden Collection of Amazing Photographs (Check Out #186 The Grill) Top 10 inspirational sports films The Truth of Sport If you like this post please consider subscribing. […]
A Racist Chair? and A Bestseller Algorithm?
Compelling articles from diverse content sources the most important of which is my Twitter List of over 1000 Writer Friend followers. These followers have either created the articles or they have shared them from their perusal of the internet. Can a Chair Be Racist? Critics, Defenders Trade Tweets The Answer is… When women lived FREE […]
The V Formation and The Piano Factory Fr Blogger’s Twitter Pal Daily
We fly in a ‘V’ because it looks brilliant, say birds Poke Around the Daily Mash To the Disconsolate Writer Who Hates Her Pace Do You Write Slowly? How Long Should My Novel Be? It Depends… The Sound of History: State Seeks Federal Historic Status for Queens Piano Factory From my daily […]