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- Nicole Easterwood commented on The Salonniere's article Writing or Hand-Writing: What Do We Lose When We Type?Over the past summer, my best friend and I started doing "packages" for each other and with each package we write out a handwritten letter- which are for the most part...
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In Between ProjectsVivienne Diane Neal commented on Zetta Brown's article Amazon a Safe Harbor for Pirates? Beware Kindle Authors!According to the US Copyright Office, (http://www.copyright.gov) the practice of sending a copy of your own work to yourself is sometimes called a “poor man’s copyright.” There is no provision in the copyright law regarding any such type of protection, and it is not a substitute for registration.Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsI'm 50 and still love reading YA books. In my sophomore year I bailed out of a small parochial high school in favor of a large public school. I hated the noisy cafet...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsI concur! It drives me absolutely crazy, too!I was an English major in college, so when I hear inappropriate use of our language (or read it), it's like a neon sign up...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsI understand this syndrome very well. I quit smoking 12 years ago. I did find a healthy substitute, though, that allowed me to get the dreaming/plotting/visualizing, e...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsThis is brilliant. I can relate as a writer and as a film maker. Just substitute 'film' for 'novel' and 'shoot' for 'write' and you have described the exquisite horror of the documentary filmmaker at a cocktail party.Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsI think many people don't understand that quotation marks are for just that, quotations. They indicate what someone else said, or what someone else may have said, or as a figure of speech. People (mis)use them as a substitute for boldface, italics, or THE CAPS lock.Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsLori L. Tharps commented on Deborah Siegel's article BEA Bound She Writers - Tell Us What You're Learning, Here!I'm heading to BEA on Thursday. I'll be speaking on a panel on the main stage at 1:00pm and spending the rest of the day, trying to make friends with every book seller...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsWhen I wrote my memoir, there was a lot of dialogue. A lot. My editor was amazing. I called her "the contraction queen." I learned so much...everything you're writing...Writing Status Badges
Writing Status Badges help you distinguish yourself based on different stages of your writing life cycle.BrainstormingOutliningResearchingWritingRevisingQueryingPreparing to PublishUnder ContractPublishingPromotingBloggingIn Between ProjectsLori L. Tharps commented on her article Countdown to Publication: Building the BuzzEvelyn, You know I was kidding when I wrote the Brad Pitt thing, but you're so right. If anyone needed a good 'substitute me' it'd be the Jolie-Pitt clan. Thanks for showing me just how brilliant I really am!! ha-ha.
