Tuesday, September 6, 2011

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  • My Brother?s Mother Is My Mother Too

    831 readersHere's a disturbing trend in fiction, especially YA fiction: indistinct POV. Today I had to e-mail a production editor with the following query on a project I've just started to work on. I'd like to say it's the first time I've had to grapple with this problem, but it isn't.Who is the narrator? The book's

  • Urging Children to Embrace Their Individual Diversity

    770 readersDon Winn?s ?The Tortoise and the Hairpiece? from Yorkshire Publishing, is a delightful children?s book celebrating diversity and individuality. ?The Tortoise and the Hairpiece? is told from the perspective of Jake, a young tortoise w...

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    How Mackenzie Phillips? Family Responded to Her Memoir about Incest

    709 readersWhat happens when you reveal your family?s darkest secret in a memoir? In a new trade paperback edition (coming on February 22) of High on Arrival, Mackenzie Phillips wrote? about her family?s response to her dark memoir. Phillips?th...

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    How to Create a Great Tutorial on Anything at All

    1406 readersThis week I was on a mission. I needed information?and fast. Ok, maybe not life or death fast. More like finish-this-project-before-the-deadline fast. It probably would have been possible to figure out the gaps in my knowledge by trial and error, but I didn?t have time to waste. So I asked for help. There?s always someone

  • 10 Ways To Become A More Efficient And Productive Blogger

    701 readersLet?s face it. Blogging is hard work. If you manage your own blog, in addition to writing posts, you read and answer your comments, network with other bloggers, do proper research for future posts, use social media to promote your work, subscribe and read useful RSS feeds, engage with your readers, find and

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    ?Backbone? by David Foster Wallace | 03.08.11

    3120 readersDavid Foster Wallace?s writing took the world and wrung it out, squeezed the irony and misery and joy and monotony out of life and molded it all into something quite beautiful.? Perhaps Wallace himself put it best when he said simply, ?fiction?s about what it is to be a fucking human being.?? When he took

  • 3 Ways to Add Meaningful Structure to Your Writing Life

    4455 readersThe big lesson I?ve learned this year as a professor is: Writers need structure. It was a hard lesson to learn, because many of the things I value in life cause me to downplay structure. I value things like: Intrinsic motivation (some would say ?pa...

  • 5 Tips for Fixing ?Not Only . . . But Also? Errors

    1056 readersFew constructions cause as much consternation for editors as that in which a contrast is represented with the phrase ?not only, . . but.? The solution to garbled syntax in such constructions is simple but bears repeating, so multiple sample sentences follow. Original Post: 5 Tips for Fixing ?Not Only . . . But

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    10 Things You Should Know About e-Book Formatting

    5277 readers by Guido Henkel (@GuidoHenkel) I?m please to have an article today from self-published author and experienced e-book formatter Guido Henkel. Guido and I met on Twitter and that?s why you get to read his thoughts on this important aspect of e-publishing. Here?s his post. e-book formatting is a skill that becomes increasingly important as our society moves

  • In the Spotlight: The Virgin Mary in the Light of the Word of God by Dr. Labib Mikhail

    1964 readersTitle: The Virgin Mary in the Light of the Word of God Author: Dr. Labib Mikhail Publisher: Nordskog Publishing Paperback: 176 pages ISBN: 978-0982707494 Genre: New Testament non-fiction The Virgin Mary in the Light of the Word of God fills a tremendous need for a concise, elegant, Biblical treatment of Mary. Dr. Labib, as he is affectionately known, gives Mary

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