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Why writing a blog post is (a bit) like writing a sermon
Originally posted on LibroEditing proofreading, editing, transcription, localisation:
I was reading (yet) another mid-20th-century novel featuring a vicar hard at work over his Sunday sermon (sorry, I haven’t read a book featuring a female vicar, as far as I know. Are there any yet?) and an analogy struck me: writing a blog post is quite…
Surprise! Shannon’s Return to Blogging
Originally posted on Shannon A. Thompson:
Surprise! Shannon’s Return to Blogging Shannon is back. After 32 days, I can no longer stay away. Idling is not my thing. But I collected my thoughts and worries and concerns, and I found a new road I want to take on ShannonAThompson.com. Wait? There are changes? Yes. There…
How NOT to get promotion for yourself and your book …
Originally posted on Books: Publishing, Reading, Writing:
So, you’ve written and published a book. Congratulations! Good for you! And welcome to the club … I have some sobering news, though. You are not the first, nor will you be the last, to write and publish a book – TODAY! So far this year, 2,396,061 books…
…from all we Authors… to readers, new and established… can’t live without you… thank yeez dearly…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…Authorship…I guess it’s one of the few businesses where it’s really difficult, if not well nigh impossible to claim that ye’re ‘self-made’… moguls in other industries may rejoice in that label… captains of commerce, and others through the ages, have come forth to demonstrate the strength of character to build…
…no, this is NOT a religious discussion… please read it carefully…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…from the start of my dabbling in the WURLD of blogging, this ol’ Jurassic determined not to indulge in the ‘hot button’ topics in its content… that includes religion… now, yeez may think the following is about religion, but please read it carefully and yeez’ll see that it’s not… it’s…
…Great Authors’ openers that grab yeez by the throat and pull yeez into their novels…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…this ol’ Jurassic has many, many favourite novels from my early reading days… a time when as a twenty-sum’thing young man I was beginning to enjoy the glimpses into WURLDS created in the minds of scribbling geniuses’ of the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties… recently I’ve featured the names of some of…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 