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No Such Thing as a Bad Idea? 6 Replies
I've trained in the area of creativity for a long time. And I've been guilty of promulgating the old brainstorming saw, "There's no such thing as a bad idea. I take it all back, sort of, in my latest…
Tagged: time, equal, workout, brain, right
Started by Peter Lloyd. Last reply by Peter Lloyd Oct. 7, 2009.
Working Love Songs 4 Replies
Has anybody ever heard a love song about a job? "Ooo, baby, baby, it's a great job..." That sort of thing. Okay, Ella Fitzgerald singing "Nice Work If You Can Get It," almost qualifies, but she's not…
Started by Peter Lloyd. Last reply by L. C. Sterling Oct. 18, 2009.
upper case for medical terms 4 Replies
Does anyone know what the correct format is for medical terms like Rosacea, Acne Vulgarius, or Hyperpigmentation. Should the first letter be capitalized. I just had an editor tell me that they should…
Started by Greta Chapin-McGill. Last reply by Wag Oct. 16, 2009.
"After The Wedding." Every writer should watch this movie. 2 Replies
It's my firm belief that films have three parts: story, visuals, sounds. The great ones (few and far between) excel in all three. "Out of Africa" and "Dances with Wolves" were two examples of great v…
Started by L. C. Sterling. Last reply by L. C. Sterling Oct. 27, 2009.
From The New Yorker 2 Replies
SUBJECT: OUR MARKETING PLAN by Ellis Weiner OCTOBER 19, 2009 SHOUTS & MURMURS Hi, Ellis— Let me introduce myself. My name is Gineen Klein, and I’ve been brought on as an intern to replace the p…
Started by L. C. Sterling. Last reply by L. C. Sterling Oct. 26, 2009.
Newly discovered family, newly discovered confusion ... are we cousins? 1 Reply
My paternal grandfather had siblings who left Europe for South America in the 1930s. Their children were my father's cousins. One of my father's cousins had three children, with whom I'm now in cont…
Started by L. C. Sterling. Last reply by Greta Chapin-McGill Oct. 19, 2009.
Separating the Pros from the Pretenders: Craft 1 Reply
Writing is ultimately the practice of a craft. People who merely know how to type (e-mails, blogs, etc.) are not writers. But anyone who crafts words to perfect the communication of a thought, wheth…
Started by L. C. Sterling. Last reply by Wag Oct. 16, 2009.
Who owns Examiner.com?
The Examiner.com pitch Launched in April 2008, Examiner.com serves most US markets and is expanding internationally. Examiner.com is a Quantcast Top 100 website, a division of the Clarity Media Grou…
Started by L. C. Sterling Oct. 4, 2009.
The Demand Studios Pitch.
Who is Demand Studios? http://www.demandmedia.com/studios/ Dema Studios is the Social Publishing Ecosystem for leading digital brands. Our distributed Internet Content Studio has published more than…
Started by L. C. Sterling Oct. 4, 2009.
What is this place, anyway?
This is a site dedicated to ... oh, what the tag line says. This is not a rant site. (Rants may suddenly and inexplicably disappear.) But we are damned angry about the general state of affairs for w…
Started by L. C. Sterling Oct. 4, 2009.
Blog Posts
Looking for author success stories
I'm seeking author success stories for my ghostwriting assignment. Anybody who would like to share their self-publishing success stories and would allow me to quote them. Please contact me.
Posted by Laya Bajpai on February 7, 2010 at 3:28am
Mad about English: The age-old language struggle
Mad about English: The age-old language struggle
By Carolyn See
Friday, December 4, 2009
THE LEXICOGRAPHER'S DILEMMA
The Evolution of "Proper" English from Shakespeare to "South Park"
By Jack Lynch
Walker. 326 pp. $26
This delightful look at efforts through the centuries to define and control the English language turns out to be a history of human exasperation, frustration and free-floating angst. People tend to go nuts around the English language. Of course, mos… Continue
Posted by L. C. Sterling on December 4, 2009 at 11:00am
Have you ever heard of WEbook?
Chip MacGregor mentioned them in his posting today and that they now link up writers with lit agents.
Here's their home page blurb:
http://www.webook.com/
So you want to be a writer!
Once upon a time, writers were solitary creatures, agonizing in isolation over every word, waiting for the day when their books would get noticed by an agent and wind up on the shelves of bookstores around the world.
No longer! In the brave new world of a… Continue
Posted by L. C. Sterling on November 17, 2009 at 10:00am
John Irving interviewed on Big Think
http://www.linkedin.com/news… Continue
Posted by L. C. Sterling on November 10, 2009 at 10:00am
Follow Art Auctions?
Posted by Marilyn Richardson on November 8, 2009 at 2:57pm
The American Society of Journalists and Authors' Contracts Committee
If you've missed Contracts Watch during its hiatus, good news: it's back!
If you're not familiar with Contracts Watch, take a look. The American Society of Journalists and Authors' Contracts Committee reviews writing contracts and answers questions for both ASJA members and non-members, and the most interesting contract issues and trends are posted in a blog format on ASJA's Contracts Watch.
Find the blog and RSS feed here:
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Posted by L. C. Sterling on November 6, 2009 at 11:00am
I AM WAVING MY ARMS HERE (2)
Do me a favor and take a look at the site called “My Company” on Jerri's Cook's LinkedIn profile. It is also: rfdamerica.com.
In the search function enter Lincoln; Obama; and above all, South Africa - - for starters.
I am the queen of the First Amendment, so this is just for your information. But getting yourself banned from DIGG, a site that goes in for UFOs, takes some doing.… Continue
Posted by Marilyn Richardson on October 30, 2009 at 11:14am — 1 Comment
Ten Ways to Save Face on Facebook
Forewarned is forearmed. And we’ve all been forewarned: Watch what you post on Facebook.
A CareerBuilder survey found that 45% of employers use social networking sites to weed out job candidates. When evaluating candidates, 29% snoop around Facebook, 26% scout LinkedIn, and 21% check out MySpace. With six of us scrambling for every job out there, all it takes is a compromising picture to make you one of the five out.
This new investigative capability… Continue
Posted by L. C. Sterling on October 29, 2009 at 12:00pm
Our Animal Bodies
Most of the work that I do gets done in the first 2 minutes and last 2 minutes of a session.
And the time in between - really and truly it does… Continue
Posted by Karla Linden, NMT, LMT on October 28, 2009 at 10:32am
Back with the pro crowd
So nice to be part of a renegade creative group. I got into a bit of a flame (shame on me; hand smacked) on a LinkedIn Eds.& Writers site - - the discussion with the title about Seven Rules for Writing Online or somesuch. Quite the humorless smackdown. Actually just the bits between myself and the discussion leader; the innocent bystanders seem to be fine folk.
Anyhow, feels good to exhale among friends. Finished a nice 500 word piece today. I'll tell you the particulars if i… Continue
Posted by Marilyn Richardson on October 23, 2009 at 9:24pm
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