February 2010

Ruth Fowler: You Want My Opinion? Never. Write. Again.

02.22.2010

Writing is an affliction, a disease of the soul, a rewiring in the head, like Asperger’s or some other form of autism. Like masturbation, it’s an uncontrollable and compulsive urge. It’s an obsession, a need, a drive. It’s not fun, and rewarding, and entertaining. It’s like having a bad movie play in loop in your [...]

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True Blood

02.22.2010

So, I’m netflixing TV shows.  It’s research, honest.  I watch some good TV series, I get this mojo for good writing, it makes me want to write, etc. Anyway, I just watched the first disc of True Blood which I knew very little about, except that most people raved about how awesome it is.  And, [...]

Tagged as: all writers are readers, awesome television, because we all need a way to waste an hour

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Vamps for a Buck

02.15.2010

I found Sex and the Single Vampire by Katie MacAlister at the Dollar Store for $1.25! Squee! One’s To Be Read (TBR) pile can never be too large.  Especially when it’s a favorite author. Update 03/14/2011–I think I bought this book for my Kindle because I never get in my TBR drawer anymore.  Those books [...]

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Dear Lost Writers:

02.14.2010

Since these are the last episodes of the last season ever, and since I’ve been a loyal viewer for the last five years, enduring both dull flashbacks and funky flash forwards and everything in between, could you do me one small favor?  Could you try, in future episodes, to make the other 41 minutes less [...]

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Romance Novels – No More Rapage, Yay!

02.12.2010

On changes in the romance genre: The relationships had also modernized: by the 1990s, it was rare to see a book which featured a man raping his future wife. via Romance novel – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Yeah, thank goodness those crazy men finally came to their senses.  In the NINETIES.  What the? I get [...]

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Organize much?

02.10.2010

But online organization doesn’t have to be complicated. There are many tools for organizing all our stuff, of course, but one of the simplest is the wiki. We’re all familiar with wikis, of course — Wikipedia being the most famous example, but many other useful wikis abound on the Internet. But one of the most [...]

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