Off topic, but had to share what I just read from the AP-- An article to come out in a European medical journal this week says German researchers followed 20,000 people over eight years and found people who ate chocolate every day had "a 39 percent lower risk of either a heart attack or stroke." Other studies have suggested dark chocolate could be good for you, but this is the first big, long term study that proves it.So go eat a chocolate bunny. Now. For your heal...
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Editorial Ass: half a million and counting!
Posted on 14:06 by Unknown
Editorial Ass: half a million and counting!Editorial Ass, the anonymous editorial assistant (now editor) known as Moonrat, is having a contest to celebrate her blog's half million hits. The prize is a critique of your first 20 pages! Check it out through the link abo...
Sunday, 28 March 2010
THE GROUCHO MARXIST MANIFESTO
Posted on 19:31 by Unknown
I know this is a blog on writing, but I’m going to talk this week about Marxism: Groucho Marxism. The Groucho Marxist manifesto is, to paraphrase the great Julius Henry Marx himself— “I DO NOT CARE TO READ A BOOK WRITTEN BY A PERSON WHO WOULD ACCEPT ME AS A FRIEND.”Groucho Marxists are your family members and so-called buddies who won’t read your work and assume it’s terrible, just because it was written by somebody they know. I’m not talking about those helpful beta readers who comb through your unpublished manuscript looking for flaws to be fixed...
Sunday, 21 March 2010
88-YEAR OLD SELLS FIRST MYSTERY NOVEL!
Posted on 11:50 by Unknown
You know how everybody keeps telling you to keep sending out those queries in spite of all the rejection? How it pays to persevere? And the only way to fail is to give up trying? Now I have proof they’re right. You’re never too old for success. My nearly 89-year-old mother, Shirley S. Allen, had her first mystery novel, Academic Body, published this week by Mainly Murder Press. MMP is a small, independent press that specializes in traditional mysteries set in New England. I first heard about them through my Sisters in Crime newsletter. (Thanks,...
Sunday, 14 March 2010
TEN WAYS NOT TO START YOUR NOVEL
Posted on 10:08 by Unknown
First, completely off topic here, I’d like to say—after stumbling out of bed an hour early and changing the time on all 30 of my clocks, electronic devices and watches—that Daylight Savings Time is WAY more trouble than it used to be, because we all own so many time pieces. The folks who thought this up did not have clocks on their coffee pots. And our internal clocks are a bigger problem: we now know that changing sleep patterns weakens the immune system. Besides, we all should have CFL bulbs by now, so how much energy are we saving? I think the...
Sunday, 7 March 2010
FICTION VS. NONFICTION
Posted on 10:51 by Unknown
I’ve noticed I get a lot more comments here when I write about fiction than nonfiction. And I’m more interested in fiction too. But we’re in the minority. We live in an increasingly “reality” obsessed world.In fact, faux memoir has become something of a mainstay in the publishing business, and fake “misery lit” now has its own page at Wikipedia. But in all the discussion of forged substance abuse/holocaust/ethnic minority memoirs, not a lot of talk focuses on the sad truth that fiction writers felt they had to pass off their work as nonfiction...
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