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Honesty – People Can’t Handle It
Originally posted on Life With Words:
The other day we were visiting some family friends. While we were sitting and talking, one of the women (in her 90s) brought up how she didn’t think sex had a place in books. She told me she wrote to an author and complained about the way she put…
Sutter’s Kitchen – SEPTEMBER COOKBOOK PREVIEW
Originally posted on BookPeople:
~post by Sutterfield It’s August, y’all. It’s blisteringly and oppressively hot out there. Sure, after many years in other parts of the country where the winters are harsh and unyielding, I can say with some confidence that the summers here in my beloved Texas bother me very little nowadays, because I…
Writers, Believe in Yourselves – Stand On Your Own Two Feet
Originally posted on Have We Had Help?:
A comment on my blog post yesterday about obsessive writers, editing and layout errors got me thinking. The commentator said she had used the services of one of the thousands of Vanity Press publishers out there, waiting for the next sucker to fleece. She found out that after…
The Writer and New Experiences
Originally posted on Writing Is Hard Work:
Austin and his crew sculpted a zombie mask over my plaster head. They will then cast a latex mask from this sculpt. Some of the best advice I ever received from any writing instructor was that writers, in order to write better and more interesting things, must all…
Buried treasure
Originally posted on Photos/Words Stickers/Books:
While weed whacking this afternoon I found this gem buried under some over grown weeds. This was hours after I found myself wondering what sort of light would I need in my studio.
Beamed Sails: The Problem with Lasers Posted From Centauri Dreams
Posted: 25 Aug 2014 09:39 AM PDT We saw on Friday through Jim Benford’s work that pushing a large sail with a neutral particle beam is a promising way to get around the Solar System, although it presents difficulties for interstellar work. Benford was analyzing an earlier paper by Alan Mole, which […]
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