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The Business of Writing: 02/04/13

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The Business of Writing. Notes from a business writer. and now, novelist. Monday, February 4, 2013. My experience is similar to the one described in this great article by Benjamin Nugent. In today's New York Times. Isolation tank, limited engagement, or complete immersion in the world? What makes you most productive? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Bill Warrington's Last Chance. Click on image for trailer. Visit your favorite bookstore, or order online:. Author, Bill Warrington's Last Chance. Four Days a Week.

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The Business of Writing: This One's for Tara

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The Business of Writing. Notes from a business writer. and now, novelist. Thursday, April 2, 2015. This One's for Tara. That's Tara, seated on my right. Last month, I was honored to be the featured author at the Fitchburg (MA) Library's Author Night. The moderator was a fine young woman named Tara Dugan, who, as it turns out, is a distant cousin. although I'm still not sure how. Despite any genetic connection she may have with me, she did a great job. While I was revising a poem that sucked, my long-dead.

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The Business of Writing: 04/12/15

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The Business of Writing. Notes from a business writer. and now, novelist. Sunday, April 12, 2015. This week's Facebook Find, from Anne Lamott's page:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Bill Warrington's Last Chance. Click on image for trailer. Visit your favorite bookstore, or order online:. If you have a question or a suggestion for a blog post, or would like to talk about meeting with your book club in person or via Skype, I'd love to hear from you. Author, Bill Warrington's Last Chance. I Tweet on Occasion.

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The Tears of Charles A. Post: Horror and Mental Illness in Cinema | Poe's Doorknob

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What is Poe’s Doorknob? Writing about writers and writing by david surface. Laquo; What’s So Scary About Peter Pan. Justified In the Necropolis: Mummies, the Book of the Dead, and What We Take With Us. The Tears of Charles A. Post: Horror and Mental Illness in Cinema. January 29, 2011 by dsurface. The character of Nicholas is described as a “brutish man,” a “homicidal maniac” who has somehow insinuated himself into the household of an old man and his granddaughter. An outsider...A large man, Post easily ...

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The Business of Writing: 03/30/14

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The Business of Writing. Notes from a business writer. and now, novelist. Sunday, March 30, 2014. You Search for It Until It Finds You. When I was a young hormone, I once asked my father for advice on winning a girl's heart. I must have really. Liked that girl, because broaching such a topic with my father, at that age, was about as uncool and desperate an act I could imagine. Chase her," he said. "Until she catches you.". Um, right. Thanks, Dad. And thanks, Dad. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Reading Betwe...

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Justified In the Necropolis: Mummies, the Book of the Dead, and What We Take With Us | Poe's Doorknob

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What is Poe’s Doorknob? Writing about writers and writing by david surface. Laquo; The Tears of Charles A. Post: Horror and Mental Illness in Cinema. Know You Like the Sun: Jekyll and Hyde Get Real. Justified In the Necropolis: Mummies, the Book of the Dead, and What We Take With Us. February 22, 2012 by dsurface. When I took my daughter to the Brooklyn Museum last Sunday and asked her what she wanted to see, she told me right away. “Mummies.”. This one, the one that looks like a hawk, is an. She asks&#4...

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The Business of Writing: Just Another Writerly Weekend

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The Business of Writing. Notes from a business writer. and now, novelist. Sunday, April 19, 2015. Just Another Writerly Weekend. What a weekend I had planned. Two full days to write, just write. And I was a good, disciplined writer, too. Honest I was. Butt in chair. Fingers on keyboard. No Facebook (mostly). Clickety clack clickety clack. Go, Jimmy, go! Get those words down. Sucky sentence? You can fix it later. Crappy paragraph? A huge, heaping and steaming pile of horseshit. Clickety clack. I could com...

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The Business of Writing: 04/19/15

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The Business of Writing. Notes from a business writer. and now, novelist. Sunday, April 19, 2015. Just Another Writerly Weekend. What a weekend I had planned. Two full days to write, just write. And I was a good, disciplined writer, too. Honest I was. Butt in chair. Fingers on keyboard. No Facebook (mostly). Clickety clack clickety clack. Go, Jimmy, go! Get those words down. Sucky sentence? You can fix it later. Crappy paragraph? A huge, heaping and steaming pile of horseshit. Clickety clack. I could com...

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The Business of Writing: 06/13/13

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The Business of Writing. Notes from a business writer. and now, novelist. Thursday, June 13, 2013. This article in the New York Times. On Writing and Fear. Hit a nerve. Don't write what you know, the author advises, write what you fear. It got me to thinking: What if the things you fear are wrapped up in the writing process itself? What keeps your writerly mind cowering beneath the sheets? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Bill Warrington's Last Chance. Click on image for trailer. View my complete profile.

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The Business of Writing: 03/10/13

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The Business of Writing. Notes from a business writer. and now, novelist. Sunday, March 10, 2013. The Voices in My Running and Writing Head. Today I downloaded a iPhone app for my outdoor running. It uses gps to track the running route, distance, time, etc etc. All the gizmos. Looked cool. Beautiful day. I decided to give it a try. You have been staring at the computer screen for fifteen-point-zero-zero minutes.". You have typed zero-point-zero-zero characters.". That I'm older and slower than ever.