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  • banane & Blog Archive & Blogs vs. Novels

    Rated Oct 22 2007 • 1 review • romance novels • banane.com

    Blogs vs. Novels

    Working on a new novel in November as part of Nanowrimo. Kathy's doing it over at More Good News for Optimists, so I thought I'd trail behind her like a sycophant. I mean, do it too. Unfortunately I get an idea a week on this novel. Title came first: Beer and Chocolate. I thought that up a few years ago walking home from sushi place, "I'd really like to write a novel with the title `Beer and Chocolate.'" But I was already working on a novel at that time. I think another one came out with a similar title, too. So now I get to use it. The deep story behind that title is that those are my comfort foods. A little jar of chocolate chips and a bottle of beer, yee ha....

  • Spurious: The Other Kierkegaard

    Rated Oct 22 2007 • 1 review • philosophy • typepad.com

    The Other Kierkegaard

    1. You envy him, don't you?

    To find an idea for which he could live and die - this is what Kierkegaard says he hopes for in an early entry in his journal. No surprise, then, his impassioned experience of God, a few years later. He has found what he sought - or was it the idea that sought him, waited for him and then trapped him? Now his torment had a name; the idea was clothed, and he could sacrifice his life as he always wanted to it to be sacrificed....

  • http://bannaga.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/how-to-write-a-th...

    Rated Oct 22 2007 • 1 review • futurism • wordpress.com

    How to Write a Thriller-An Ian Fleming Essay

    I never correct anything and I never go back to what I have written, except to the foot of the last page to see where I have got to. If you once look back, you are lost. How could you have written this drivel? How could you have used "terrible" six times on one page? And so forth. If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you will be disgusted with them into the bargain. By following my formula, you write 2,000 words a day and you aren't disgusted with them until the book is finished, which will be in about six weeks"....

  • http://mare-music.blogspot.com/2007/10/writing-twenty-nov...

    Rated Oct 22 2007 • 1 review • writing • blogspot.com

    Writing Twenty Novels (in 10 easy steps!)

    During a recent telephone conversation, I mentioned having sent off the last revisions for my twentieth novel, "Great Sky Woman." There was a silence on the other side of the phone, followed by the question "How in the world do you do that? Twenty novels!"

    The truth is that I know many writers who have written far more than twenty novels. It is not that unusual. In fact, if you are a working writer, the "perfect" output is very close to a book a year. Less often than this, and the readers stop anticipating your next book, and wander to another writer's literary pasture...

  • http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0411/MoonVenus_karimi_ful...

    Rated Oct 22 2007 • 0 reviews • nasa.gov

  • http://timbeversphotography.com/db4/00311/timbeversphotog...

    Rated Oct 21 2007 • 0 reviews • dj • timbeversphotography.com

  • Why Aspiring Scholars Make Excellent Bloggers - Ancient...

    Rated Oct 21 2007 • 1 review • typepad.com

    Why Aspiring Scholars Make Excellent Bloggers

    This post replies to another by Jim West who argues that aspiring scholars shouldn't blog. His point: anything you say on a blog can and will be used against you. Say something that crosses a red line of someone else who might be in a position to make life difficult for you, and they will.

    All of this is true. But Jim's advice will be ignored by the best aspiring scholars for the following reasons: