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AlotofGaul: December 2010
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My blog, my blatherings. Topics vary, depending on . well, me. Friday, December 31, 2010. A Lead is a Promise". What is more welcome than a new piece by John McPhee, and on writing, of all things! Writing a Strong Lead is Half the Battle"- the quote in my blog title comes near the end) is from the Wall Street Journal. It's short and to the point and everyone who writes should read it. A lot, so I'm learning to write a lead. Was passed around by engineers at the aerospace company I once worked for, and be...
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AlotofGaul: May 2011
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My blog, my blatherings. Topics vary, depending on . well, me. Saturday, May 28, 2011. Aerial Archaeology and New Pyramids. The BBC says infrared imaging from satellites has located 17 new pyramids in Egypt, along with thousands of tomb/home/town sites. Has a concise summation and video here. Two of the new pyramids are near Saqqara, and excavations are underway to prove/disprove their existance. (that's Giza- not Saqqara- in the pretty picture.). I don't get the BBC station anymore.). Just in the last c...
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AlotofGaul: Indies Choice Winners
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My blog, my blatherings. Topics vary, depending on . well, me. Friday, April 06, 2012. Just in case you want to stock up on books for Easter vacation, the ABA announced these favorites, voted on by independent booksellers/bookstores. (Full article here. With links to Amazon, the winners are:. Adult Fiction: Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot: A Novel. Gotta be great. Eugenides doesn't write anything less than great, right? And this is about a love triangle in the 1980s, part erotic, part classic. My ot...
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Stopped in my reading tracks… | TLS Writers
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A group of writers that come together The Last Sunday of every month to write and talk writing. New Year’s Wishes…. Writer’s writing about other writers! Stopped in my reading tracks…. A comment by Erica Jamieson (with a little inspiration from Alice McDermott). I was reading McDermott’s short story in the New Yorker Magazine on my Kindle Fire (best magazine app! And was struck by this paragraph. In the over exhausted mantra that emerging writers chant. Here is showing at its best. And I’m. Fill in your ...
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Erica W. Jamieson | TLS Writers
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A group of writers that come together The Last Sunday of every month to write and talk writing. Erica W. Jamieson. Erica W. Jamieson won the 2012 Gypsy Sachet Award in Letters and Biography from Fiction Fix. Her short story Angels in the Wind won the December 2011 Switchback Flash Fiction Contest. Erica W. Jamieson's story Hope Like Blue Skies. Laura Mays Hoopes story Babeland. Madeline Sharples has a essay in My Gutsy Story available at Amazon. Seriously Noteworthy Announcements…. Lisa Solis DeLong RN.
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AlotofGaul: February 2011
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My blog, my blatherings. Topics vary, depending on . well, me. Wednesday, February 16, 2011. Desks of Brilliant Minds. A while back I did some posts on the writing sites of certain authors like Mary Roberts Rinehart. It was fun, till I discovered that my idea wasn't too unique and the best I could do was refer to other articles. So here's another article. On the topic. Desks of the rich and creative, from Flavorwire. Obviously, a clean desktop is the sign of a less-than-exemplary mind! A February 3 story.
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AlotofGaul: Going to a Trade Show?
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My blog, my blatherings. Topics vary, depending on . well, me. Wednesday, April 04, 2012. Going to a Trade Show? Is your one-stop shop. I love that their 800 number is right there, at the top of the main page- in fact, on every page, so you don't have to go searching for it. The choices are clear, even though there are many. Search along a side menu for the display size you need, or let pictures guide you to the visual statement you want to make with your trade show displays. Posted by Vickey Kall. I'm a...
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AlotofGaul: August 2010
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My blog, my blatherings. Topics vary, depending on . well, me. Thursday, August 26, 2010. The Cost of EBooks. Like many others, I thought books for the Kindle would be dirt cheap. Five dollars or less- after all, no paper, shipping, store costs, etc. Wrong! According to the September 2010 Wired Magazine's. Hmm Don't know if I agree but I never pass up an opportunity to quote a Doyle. That was my grandmother's family name. However, Rick Broida- the author of this Wired. I assume that means, though, that t...
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Despair, Devastation & Dysfunction: it began when I was young
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Despair, Devastation and Dysfunction. All things melancholy, morose and miserable. Join Us in Despair. You know when you were a kid and your diary was full of angst and woe-is-me-ness? That is what this blog is for. Lost your job, dog is sick, someone stole your parking spot, crashed your car, just generally glum? This is the place to put all that lovely grey and those long drawn out sighs. Are you sick, are you tired? Have you been sick and tired for a year? Would you like to be part of the DD&D project?
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