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Paradigm shift alert – for this site and for my life
I’ve moved this from my home page where it was originally posted February 1, 2017. The standard wisdom in the publishing world is for authors to avoid controversial topics on their websites and social media for fear of alienating potential readers. I’ve debated that subject in other venues and I’m finally done talking about it.…
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Never Call Yourself a Writer, and Other Rules for Writing
Originally posted on The Brevity Blog: By Shawna Kenney First thought, best thought; revise, revise, revise. Write first thing in the morning when the mind is alert; write at night and never while sober. Do it alone, in an office with the door closed, surrounded by books; write in coffee shops, surrounded by stimulating characters and…
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Look what the wind blew in!
What fun to write my guest post for Patricia McLinn’s blog this past week, in a whirlwind trip down memory lane! I revisited one of my many past lives – this one as a police/fire/9-1-1 dispatcher in the late ’70s/early ’80s (go ahead, do the math…it is what it is), thanks to her depiction of…
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Seeing an Essay and My Father Anew
Originally posted on The Brevity Blog: Gilbert’s father bought a great-great-great grandson of this legendary bull, shown in 1935 By Richard Gilbert Almost three years ago, I began writing about accompanying my father to buy a Hereford bull when I was four. What provoked reliving the trip was fetching a cane for my wife, who…
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About a Microwave
Originally posted on The Brevity Blog: By Dinty W. Moore I am reviewing a blank book. The pages are entirely empty – not a single word. That makes it nonfiction, yes? Because there is no fiction printed within. And the title is Alternative Facts. Facts are nonfiction, yes? This is important, because the Brevity blog…
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“Suffering” deserves a definition
Because others are saying what I’m thinking in much better language than my distressed and overwhelmed brain is apparently capable of these days, I’m on a string of sharing their words. This does not make them – or my agreement – any less powerful. Rather, it helps remind me I’m not alone. I hope it does the…
CL Pauwels at Large 