THANK YOU ALL for yesterday's TEASERS. Remember, tomorrow's teasers are due by midnight tonight.


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Compliments of newport2newport, great words of wisdom from Lauren Baratz-Logsted:

Fortune-Cookie Tips for Writers, #350: Always put off until tomorrow what you can put off until tomorrow if it would interfere with your writing today.


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If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling.

You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.

You must lurk in libraries and ( Read more... )

Quote of the day:  "If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing." Kingsley Amis

Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2009

1. ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series) by Lauren Myracle
Reasons: drugs, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group

2. And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
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Welcome to GRAPEMO 2011! I see a lot of faces from last year, and a few new ones besides. I'm already geared up, sitting at Borders with my lap top, guzzling coffee (I notice some grounds floating in my cup, but I'm not complaining) and preparing to give myself a good kick in the butt.

Not before i post something, of course.

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1. SAY THE WORD made Booklist's 2010 Rainbow List.

2. Though I still need my last wisdom tooth out (but I'm not feeling masochistic enough to do it yet) my face is back to normal. Yay!

3. The Academy Awards are Sunday and I haven't seen a single film.

4. I can't wait for all this snow to melt so I can get in the back uard and shovel up 150 lbs ( Read more... )

How do you write? Check out this GREAT post: PLUNGERS VS. PLOTTERS by cindachima.

Quote of the Day

It's an adrenaline surge rushing through your body. You have this spark of an idea that keeps threatening to burst into flames and you have to get the words out on paper to match this emotion or picture in your head. After this comes the work of cleaning up ( Read more... )

This

is

PERFECT!

(and why I love this book so much)

"...Stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position." - from ( Read more... )

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Well, I am off to see an oral surgeon today (I know, I know...after the horse has already left the barn) just to be sure I don't have any bone fragments lodged in my cerebellum, or undetected holes that might be leaking spinal fluid or something...

Wait, I'm kidding. Kidding!

This is me today--


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