Tag: writing
group name: books
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November 05, 2008 04:26 PM EST --
Self-publishing can help you get your book noticed in the marketplace and we want to help you get self-published ! We asked you to submit your ideas for your own book jackets. You were asked to pretend . . .
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June 19, 2007 03:08 PM EDT --
So I was asked to talk a bit about getting published. I've been asked about this an awful lot so it seems as good a topic as any . . . after my usual disclaimers :)
Disclaimer the First-- . . .
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March 05, 2007 12:08 PM EST --
I am very excited at the thought of being in a chatroom, of sorts, with readers. They always say that writing is a lonely business, and in a way that's quite true.
It's a little less lonely for . . .
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February 15, 2007 11:14 PM EST --
One of the most famous lines in all of fiction was the opening of Charles Dickens classic, A Tale of Two Cities, “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times...”
As a debut novelist, . . .
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May 25, 2007 11:01 PM EDT --
Words. I love everything about them. I love how they look on the page, how they sound to the ear, how they create worlds.
Letter combinations fascinate me. Ck has its own identity . . .
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June 18, 2007 04:40 PM EDT --
Our First Chapters Writing Competition was a tremendous success, with two Gather authors to be published in the fall. Terry Shaw, author of The Way Life Should Be, and Geoffrey Edwards, author of Fire . . .
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July 03, 2008 11:27 AM EDT --
Write what you know. How often have you heard that? How often has it frustrated you?
"I can't write about a black man unless I'm black."
"I can't . . .
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October 13, 2009 12:15 AM EDT --
I started out as a child reading biographies about 9 years old. I felt then that reading anything but true life was a waste. As I grew in education, I studied literature to gain my Masters . . .
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July 11, 2007 06:21 PM EDT --
Voting in the First Chapters Romance Writing Competition is simple! If after reading a chapter you’re so impressed that you’d recommend the book for publishing, rate that chapter a 10. Very . . .
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December 26, 2007 01:30 PM EST --
Issue #22
Greetings, Gather writers, and welcome to this issue of Freelancing for Pleasure and Profit. Have you ever wondered how the really big crime writers get their information about . . .
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September 15, 2007 07:25 PM EDT --
Editing Is Your Friend
As an editor, I find many writers have either edited their work too much or too little.
The key is to edit well enough to create a great story, but not too much . . .
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February 27, 2008 04:04 PM EST --
Regarded by the world as one of the greatest Czech writers, Milan Kundera now lives in Paris but still writes about his homeland.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is probably . . .
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April 06, 2007 01:37 AM EDT --
Because writers are essentially people who live and die by the power of imagination, we tend to dream extravagantly, wildly, sometimes impossibly. But that’s all right. Dreams are our task masters . . .
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August 06, 2007 01:53 PM EDT --
Loving Frank is a work of fiction based on events relating to the love affair of a brilliant, controversial architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, and one of his clients, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. Mamah, along with . . .
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July 11, 2007 10:18 PM EDT --
Mom has been bugging me lately about meeting someone special and settling down. I am not, it turns out, getting any younger. Evidently there is an expiration date on me somewhere that I have . . .
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September 05, 2007 12:14 PM EDT --
Are you in the mood for a little romance? You couldn’t have picked a better time. Spring may not be in the air, but you wouldn’t know it judging by the number of romantic writings . . .
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December 11, 2007 11:01 AM EST --
Is sue #21
Announcing a Winner!
Greetings, Gather writers, and welcome to this issue of Freelancing for Pleasure and Profit. In the last issue I put out a call for entries for . . .
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March 23, 2007 01:29 AM EDT --
One thing no one ever warned me about Gather is that it’s addictive. As soon as I returned from my book tour, I plunked my heavy suitcase in the hallway, and kissed my kids and my dogs and . . .
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November 01, 2007 10:31 AM EDT --
I recently had the privilege of interviewing bestselling author David Baldacci. Mr. Baldacci's new book "Stone Cold" will be released on November 6th. He will also be hosting . . .
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March 28, 2007 05:09 PM EDT --
Hello Gather,
Since my radio program Speaking of Faith began, people have asked how I came to care about large questions of meaning, how I think about the dangers and promises of religion . . .
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