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Brain shut off: Basic English 101 | Phil J. Harrison's Blog

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Phil J. Harrison's Blog. Author of Standing Stone, Just One Look, The Path to the North Pole, Cain's Dessert. Phil Harrison’s Blog. One Standing Stone Blog by RPMAS. Subscribe in a reader. Brain shut off: Basic English 101. By Phil J. Harrison. It is the writer’s job, if he cannot write a masterpiece, at least to avoid writing junk. Robert Giroux. After watching the #AskELJames fiasco, the idea should have sunk in that we do need to know how to write. Yes, a lot of writers get away with badly formed ...

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I am that I am | Phil J. Harrison's Blog

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Phil J. Harrison's Blog. Author of Standing Stone, Just One Look, The Path to the North Pole, Cain's Dessert. Phil Harrison’s Blog. One Standing Stone Blog by RPMAS. Subscribe in a reader. I am that I am. By Phil J. Harrison. Explain why you chose your blog’s title and what it means to you. The title is self-explanatory. It’s my name. No fancy titles. Why is even more simple, it’s the blog that goes with my author site, 1standingstone.com. Why do I hate it? And that’s what I feel my blog is also li...

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But you weren’t suppose to laugh… | Phil J. Harrison's Blog

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Phil J. Harrison's Blog. Author of Standing Stone, Just One Look, The Path to the North Pole, Cain's Dessert. Phil Harrison’s Blog. One Standing Stone Blog by RPMAS. Subscribe in a reader. But you weren’t suppose to laugh…. By Phil J. Harrison. There has been a discussion over on RWA.org, in the End Challenge forum about setting. The original poster wondered how hard it was to change setting in a book you wrote. Answers ranged from not hard to near impossible. Get off the train at Waterloo Station. Saw i...

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Best laid plans can ruin some boots | Phil J. Harrison's Blog

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Phil J. Harrison's Blog. Author of Standing Stone, Just One Look, The Path to the North Pole, Cain's Dessert. Phil Harrison’s Blog. One Standing Stone Blog by RPMAS. Subscribe in a reader. Best laid plans can ruin some boots. By Phil J. Harrison. The footsteps started back up and the door opened then closed. The steps faded down the hall. Another door opened and closed. They heard a shower start up in the next room. The two on either side of Will shut up. You rather do the front door? Yeah And I ain’t sp...

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Phil J. Harrison's Blog | Author of Standing Stone, Just One Look, The Path to the North Pole, Cain's Dessert | Page 2

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Phil J. Harrison's Blog. Author of Standing Stone, Just One Look, The Path to the North Pole, Cain's Dessert. Phil Harrison’s Blog. One Standing Stone Blog by RPMAS. Subscribe in a reader. Kicking your career as a writer to the curb: Plagiarism. Read more "Kicking your career as a writer to the curb: Plagiarism.". RWA to make statement on Plagiarism. Read more "RWA to make statement on Plagiarism". Aeon and… God, I need coffee…. It’s too early for this crap. I need coffee because I still have t...Read mo...

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Hate pirates? There is one thing worse. | Phil J. Harrison's Blog

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Phil J. Harrison's Blog. Author of Standing Stone, Just One Look, The Path to the North Pole, Cain's Dessert. Phil Harrison’s Blog. One Standing Stone Blog by RPMAS. Subscribe in a reader. There is one thing worse. By Phil J. Harrison. Plagiarizers. Plagiarism even has its own site at Plagiarism.org. 8220;In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else’s work and lying about it afterward.”. Back to our focus. Plagiarism. Steal a little old lady’s bank account? I thin...

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It’s Tough out there… | Phil J. Harrison's Blog

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Phil J. Harrison's Blog. Author of Standing Stone, Just One Look, The Path to the North Pole, Cain's Dessert. Phil Harrison’s Blog. One Standing Stone Blog by RPMAS. Subscribe in a reader. It’s Tough out there…. By Phil J. Harrison. Remember I said Writing is a job and you have to work on writing? Then I mentioned that it was also a business [shudder…] and not an Artsy-Fartsy experience? It goes to shit. They point out in an article that the average pay of a writer. Equally bleak was the news from Canada,.

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Plotting and Pacing or Plodding and Jumping | Phil J. Harrison's Blog

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Phil J. Harrison's Blog. Author of Standing Stone, Just One Look, The Path to the North Pole, Cain's Dessert. Phil Harrison’s Blog. One Standing Stone Blog by RPMAS. Subscribe in a reader. Plotting and Pacing or Plodding and Jumping. By Phil J. Harrison. Plots 101 with an excellent example of what NOT to do. Yeah, you can pants but really, do you want to try to edit something like a story out of that glob of crap you just spewed out? It is the dreaded plot that a pantser tries to avoid. It just arriv...

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I really should be editing… | Phil J. Harrison's Blog

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Phil J. Harrison's Blog. Author of Standing Stone, Just One Look, The Path to the North Pole, Cain's Dessert. Phil Harrison’s Blog. One Standing Stone Blog by RPMAS. Subscribe in a reader. I really should be editing…. By Phil J. Harrison. No really. I should be editing right now. However, if you are a writer, it’s been very hard not to notice the now famous [or infamous] hash tag debacle last week. Remember when I said writing was work? There are plenty of Author lessons to be learned. I can’t go o...