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I help #indiewriters shape and share their stories with readers who'll love them.
#editor #bookeditor #bookcoach #novel #memoir #story #structure #genre #readers #fiction #creativenonfiction
And cut programs for seniors, vets, and people with serious medical needs to justify more tax cuts for billionaires. For an apartheidist, he hates everyone pretty equally.
December 23, 2024 at 9:31 PM
And cut programs for seniors, vets, and people with serious medical needs to justify more tax cuts for billionaires. For an apartheidist, he hates everyone pretty equally.
Who would have seen that coming? (sarcasm)
December 23, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Who would have seen that coming? (sarcasm)
I've been there. Virtual hugs to you. I found myself missing my Mom last night b/c she made xmas magical but she was the same mom who slept in and let toddler me wander the neighborhood...and later made me the parentified oldest child...things are complicated. No one goes no contact w/o reason.
December 23, 2024 at 9:17 PM
I've been there. Virtual hugs to you. I found myself missing my Mom last night b/c she made xmas magical but she was the same mom who slept in and let toddler me wander the neighborhood...and later made me the parentified oldest child...things are complicated. No one goes no contact w/o reason.
Wowie! What a poem. Thanks for sharing.
December 23, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Wowie! What a poem. Thanks for sharing.
I write first drafts in pen on paper, usually composition notebooks then type them up later. I find I can sink into the "flow" so much better that way. Plus, I can cross something out in pen and still go back and decide later it was pretty good but the delete key is forever.
December 23, 2024 at 8:54 PM
I write first drafts in pen on paper, usually composition notebooks then type them up later. I find I can sink into the "flow" so much better that way. Plus, I can cross something out in pen and still go back and decide later it was pretty good but the delete key is forever.
"It's a fucking bar cart! And it costs $1,400! What are we, on a fucking Emirates flight? Do I get a lock of hair from Truman Capote's cadaver for free with this when I buy it?" LOL!
December 20, 2024 at 9:07 PM
"It's a fucking bar cart! And it costs $1,400! What are we, on a fucking Emirates flight? Do I get a lock of hair from Truman Capote's cadaver for free with this when I buy it?" LOL!
He's many things that I won't say right here.
December 20, 2024 at 8:54 PM
He's many things that I won't say right here.
When I taught "comp," I prepped for teaching essays by printing them out and marking them up. I encouraged my students to learn the same way, making a copy or marking their text books in pencil that could be erased. Some thought I was "mad" but it helps you focus, read more closely.
December 20, 2024 at 8:41 PM
When I taught "comp," I prepped for teaching essays by printing them out and marking them up. I encouraged my students to learn the same way, making a copy or marking their text books in pencil that could be erased. Some thought I was "mad" but it helps you focus, read more closely.
For the week prior to Christmas, I'm posting some of my favorite passages from Dickens' A Christmas Carol. This story embodies one of my favorite definitions of "literature," Ezra Pound's, as "news that stays news."
December 20, 2024 at 7:38 PM
For the week prior to Christmas, I'm posting some of my favorite passages from Dickens' A Christmas Carol. This story embodies one of my favorite definitions of "literature," Ezra Pound's, as "news that stays news."
Thanks for the follow!
December 18, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Thanks for the follow!
Cool, cool. (?!)
December 18, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Cool, cool. (?!)
It's not the cow manure that smells, here.
December 18, 2024 at 7:47 PM
It's not the cow manure that smells, here.
Vaccines do not cause autism. And autism is not a disease.
December 18, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Vaccines do not cause autism. And autism is not a disease.
Maybe if the GOP hadn't obstructed every single attempt by the Democrats and Independents to pass universal healthcare over the last almost 100 years, we would have that by now. It's not "the government" but the GOP that is to blame.
December 18, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Maybe if the GOP hadn't obstructed every single attempt by the Democrats and Independents to pass universal healthcare over the last almost 100 years, we would have that by now. It's not "the government" but the GOP that is to blame.
Wow, Utah got even weirder since I left. I'm a "DNA Mormon," descended from some of the first settlers in the territory but even steeped in that stew as I grew up, I think this is pretty dang weird.
December 18, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Wow, Utah got even weirder since I left. I'm a "DNA Mormon," descended from some of the first settlers in the territory but even steeped in that stew as I grew up, I think this is pretty dang weird.
May we all live long enough to see justice served.
December 18, 2024 at 7:30 PM
May we all live long enough to see justice served.
My MC wants to move out of the cramped Craftsman cottage that she shares with her parents, her grandfather, and her wife and new baby into her own new home...but at the same time she doesn't.
December 18, 2024 at 7:15 PM
My MC wants to move out of the cramped Craftsman cottage that she shares with her parents, her grandfather, and her wife and new baby into her own new home...but at the same time she doesn't.
Do both! Be a fabulous fabulist!
December 18, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Do both! Be a fabulous fabulist!
For the week prior to Christmas, I'm posting some of my favorite passages from Dickens' A Christmas Carol. This story embodies one of my favorite definitions of "literature," Ezra Pound's, as "news that stays news."
December 18, 2024 at 7:10 PM
For the week prior to Christmas, I'm posting some of my favorite passages from Dickens' A Christmas Carol. This story embodies one of my favorite definitions of "literature," Ezra Pound's, as "news that stays news."