Jun 01 2009 08:48 AM
Great Beginnings Monday: Seabiscuit
Situations: in Episode XXIII, reversals of fortunes for Carlene and Mary Jo, a change of heart for Bob, a nod to Samuel Beckett.
Master Index of Archived Threads
Writing Careers Examiner
| TheOldMole Jan 31 2009 02:37 PM |
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I've joined the Examiner.com team, as the New York Writing Careers Examiner. This means I'll be posting nuggets of advice on writing issues several times a week. I'll be hitting everything from amusing and trenchant anecdotes to practical advice on all aspects of writing to "workshop" tips on plotting, character, metaphor, line breaks -- the gamut. The entries will also include my own illustrations.
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| DocTee Jan 31 2009 03:12 PM |
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Excellent.
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| Fman99 Feb 01 2009 12:49 PM |
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I always wanted to be a writer, but I'm too stupid. Dang.
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| TheOldMole Feb 01 2009 05:03 PM |
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Being smart is the last thing you need.
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| TheOldMole Feb 02 2009 12:42 PM |
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Three new items on writers groups.
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| TheOldMole Feb 04 2009 05:44 PM |
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Writing careers: What you can learn from John Updike
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| TheOldMole Feb 05 2009 10:53 AM |
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Writing careers: How to write a love poem for Valentine's Day
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| DocTee Feb 05 2009 11:01 AM |
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I'm enjoying the hell out of these, and have mentioned them to my English Professor colleagues. Thanks for sharing.
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| TheOldMole Feb 05 2009 12:29 PM |
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Doc -- thanks for passing the word along.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 05 2009 12:51 PM |
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I like the artwork, I'm sure they don't insist you do it.
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| TheOldMole Feb 08 2009 07:48 AM |
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No, I think most people copy and paste public domain art or wire service pix that they probably don't really have copyright for. But I figured I could add a little more to set my column apart.
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| TheOldMole Feb 08 2009 10:43 AM |
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How many daughters Penn had, and why it matters.
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| TheOldMole Feb 11 2009 08:54 AM |
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On meeting deadlines
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| TheOldMole Feb 12 2009 12:09 PM |
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| TheOldMole Feb 14 2009 05:08 PM |
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How to start that story (or maybe it doesn't matter)
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| TheOldMole Feb 20 2009 07:36 AM |
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| TheOldMole Feb 22 2009 11:57 AM |
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Starting a series on what makes a great editor.
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| TheOldMole Feb 25 2009 10:02 AM |
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Continuing my great editors series, with a pause for the Oscars:
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| TheOldMole Feb 25 2009 07:02 PM |
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And more of the Jim Bryans story.
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| TheOldMole Feb 28 2009 06:26 PM |
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A couple of new ones, including one on baseball, with two baseball drawings which I kinda like -- I've never been good at sports action drawing.
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| themetfairy Feb 28 2009 07:22 PM |
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I like the Seaver sketch.
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| TheOldMole Mar 03 2009 08:06 PM |
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Matt McCarthy's Baseball Memoir Stirs Questions About Truth-Telling
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| TheOldMole Mar 07 2009 12:02 PM |
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Starting a series on useful internet sites for writers. Kinda neat that I got a note from the NY Public Library thanking me for the article I did on their research services.
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| TheOldMole Mar 09 2009 05:10 PM |
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The first part of an series on Bob Abel, the greatest editor I have ever known.
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| TheOldMole Mar 10 2009 05:32 PM |
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A digression off the Bob Abel story.
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| TheOldMole Mar 13 2009 08:56 AM |
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The writer's craft: More on learning how to write as well as you possibly can.
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| TheOldMole Mar 18 2009 09:24 PM |
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| TheOldMole Mar 19 2009 11:54 AM |
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Day jobs in writing: Marketing
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| TheOldMole Mar 20 2009 05:20 PM |
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| TheOldMole Mar 21 2009 03:33 PM |
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Preparing a manuscript to submit
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| TheOldMole Mar 22 2009 05:59 PM |
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What Do You Do With Your Manuscript?
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| TheOldMole Mar 25 2009 05:46 PM |
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| TheOldMole Mar 26 2009 06:35 PM |
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| TheOldMole Mar 26 2009 11:48 PM |
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What you can learn from the Japanese cell phone novelists.
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| TheOldMole Mar 27 2009 09:17 PM |
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| TheOldMole Mar 29 2009 12:05 PM |
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| TheOldMole Mar 31 2009 07:45 AM |
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| TheOldMole Mar 31 2009 08:52 PM |
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The writer's craft: Description as character -- what you can learn from Raymond Chandler
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| TheOldMole Apr 01 2009 06:51 PM |
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The writer's craft: What you can learn from James Wood and Barbara Kingsolver
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| TheOldMole Apr 04 2009 06:06 AM |
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The writer's craft: Description as character -- what you can learn from Ernest Hemingway and Vittorio deSica
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| Frayed Knot Apr 04 2009 06:17 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 08 2009 09:06 AM |
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Just got a chuckle as this reminded me of the old National Lampoon/Michael O'Donaghue piece; 'How to Write Good'
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| TheOldMole Apr 05 2009 06:42 PM |
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I found the piece online. Hilarious. I may use it.
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| TheOldMole Apr 06 2009 06:35 PM |
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Great Beginnings Monday: T. S. Eliot
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| TheOldMole Apr 08 2009 08:27 AM |
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Handicapping the literary magazines
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| TheOldMole Apr 09 2009 03:40 PM |
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What Ask NYPL at the NY Public Library really does. And it's amazing.
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| TheOldMole Apr 10 2009 01:01 PM |
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| TheOldMole Apr 11 2009 01:45 PM |
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For today, some beautiful pictures of bookstores and libraries you'll wish you could go to.
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| TheOldMole Apr 12 2009 01:44 PM |
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How to get your book plugged in the New York Times? Deal drugs!
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| DocTee Apr 12 2009 03:03 PM |
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I shared the beautiful pictures of those libraries and bookshops with my wife.
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| TheOldMole Apr 13 2009 02:57 PM |
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Well, it's not a lot more, but here's something worth reading.
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| TheOldMole Apr 15 2009 07:38 AM |
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| TheOldMole Apr 16 2009 01:20 PM |
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| TheOldMole Apr 19 2009 09:17 PM |
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An interview with Jane Friedman of Writers Digest -- and a little plug for Greg Prince.
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| G-Fafif Apr 20 2009 10:08 AM |
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Nice plug!
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| TheOldMole Apr 20 2009 08:05 PM |
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| TheOldMole Apr 22 2009 01:11 PM |
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Buying (or not) that new computer
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| TheOldMole Apr 23 2009 05:20 PM |
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| TheOldMole Apr 25 2009 01:44 PM |
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Writers and the recession: A used laptop?
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| TheOldMole Apr 26 2009 05:53 PM |
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My grandson wins statewide slogan contest!
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| themetfairy Apr 26 2009 05:57 PM |
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Mazel Tov! That's wonderful :)
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| TheOldMole Apr 27 2009 05:33 AM |
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Great Endings Monday: John Cheever
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| TheOldMole Apr 28 2009 11:02 AM |
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The death of literature? With a drawing of jazz great Lester Bowie.
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| TheOldMole May 01 2009 08:08 AM |
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The writer's craft: Raising the stakes, with a drawing of Jane Austen.
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| TheOldMole May 03 2009 08:40 AM |
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Writers and the recession: reports from the trenches
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| TheOldMole May 05 2009 07:22 PM |
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I'm back, after being frozen out for a few days by an Examiner glitch. And the oysters are on me.
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| TheOldMole May 06 2009 01:00 PM |
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The writer's craft: What you can learn from Marilyn French. With a portrait of Marilyn French.
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| TheOldMole May 07 2009 04:47 PM |
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Blogs to books -- but not the one you're waiting for. That comes next. Read this one anyway.
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| TheOldMole May 08 2009 07:02 PM |
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Blog to Book: Faith and Fear in Flushing
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| themetfairy May 08 2009 08:11 PM |
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Member promoting a member.
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| TheOldMole May 11 2009 06:46 PM |
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| Vic Sage May 12 2009 01:07 PM |
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how about something about writing plays or musicals?
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| TheOldMole May 12 2009 04:56 PM |
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| TheOldMole May 12 2009 05:08 PM |
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Vic...great idea. Can I collar you for an interview?
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| TheOldMole May 14 2009 12:46 PM |
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What you can learn from Elizabeth Edwards and Ricky Nelson
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| Vic Sage May 15 2009 10:20 AM |
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i love to be quoted. But leave the collar at home. I'm not into that stuff.
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| TheOldMole May 15 2009 02:33 PM |
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And Mistess Helga was dying to meet you.
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| TheOldMole May 18 2009 07:51 PM |
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Great Beginnings Monday: James Joyce
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| DocTee May 18 2009 08:33 PM |
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As a historian, I couldn't agree with your comments about Carr more.
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| TheOldMole May 19 2009 11:01 AM |
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I'm just looking over my most recent project, which is set in the McCarthy era, and uses a lot of historical and literary characters, and thinking how much more interesting mine are than his.
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| DocTee May 19 2009 11:55 AM |
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Be sure to give Paul Robeson his due.
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| TheOldMole May 19 2009 12:27 PM |
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Unfortunately, he didn't quite fit into the plot. But we do have the Weavers.
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| TheOldMole May 19 2009 07:53 PM |
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| TheOldMole May 20 2009 03:38 PM |
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How are artists and writers coping with the recession?
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| TheOldMole May 21 2009 08:48 AM |
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Who not to submit to
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| TheOldMole May 24 2009 05:52 PM |
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Great Endings Monday: for Memorial Day, Winston Churchill, Errol Flynn and Pete Seeger
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| TheOldMole May 26 2009 10:10 AM |
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Memorial Day followup -- letters to Donna Reed
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| TheOldMole May 26 2009 08:20 PM |
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More from World War II: the Bataan drawings of Ben Steele and the Mexican Suitcase of Robert Capa
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| TheOldMole May 27 2009 07:30 PM |
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Does new technology=new forms of censorship?
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| TheOldMole May 28 2009 12:38 PM |
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Apple does an about-face on iPhone censorship.
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| TheOldMole May 29 2009 12:01 PM |
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What you can learn from Archie and Veronica and Sookie Stackhouse and Stephanie Meyer
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| TheOldMole Jun 01 2009 08:48 AM |
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Great Beginnings Monday: Seabiscuit
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| TheOldMole Jun 03 2009 08:07 AM |
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NY Public Library's Gay Liberation Exhibit
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| TheOldMole Jun 03 2009 03:37 PM |
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The New York Public Library needs your support.
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| TheOldMole Jun 04 2009 12:08 PM |
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What you can learn from Keats, Coleridge and Harold Arlen
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| TheOldMole Jun 09 2009 05:56 AM |
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Great Beginnings Monday: Lorrie Moore, Mark Strand and Maxine Kumin
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| TheOldMole Jun 12 2009 03:13 PM |
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What you can and can't with Kindle.
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| TheOldMole Jun 13 2009 10:31 AM |
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| TheOldMole Jun 15 2009 07:16 AM |
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Great Beginnings Monday: The Good Soldier
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| TheOldMole Jun 17 2009 05:15 PM |
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| TheOldMole Jun 22 2009 12:04 PM |
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Great Beginnings Monday: Donald Justice and Father's Day
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| TheOldMole Jul 03 2009 10:32 AM |
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Chris Anderson's Free and the future of writing: part one
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| TheOldMole Jul 04 2009 10:44 AM |
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Chris Anderson's Free and the future of writing: part two (Malcolm Gladwell)
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| TheOldMole Jul 09 2009 10:24 AM |
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The National Book Awards and Nelson Algren.
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| TheOldMole Jul 14 2009 07:35 AM |
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Great Beginnings Monday: Ralph Ellison
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| TheOldMole Jul 14 2009 10:22 AM |
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The Clutter family murder, In Cold Blood, and what you can learn about writing from Truman Capote
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| TheOldMole Jul 20 2009 01:07 PM |
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Writing Careers 101: Cloud computing for the individual writer.
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| TheOldMole Jul 21 2009 08:07 PM |
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LaserMonks, economy, environment.
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| TheOldMole Jul 23 2009 11:24 AM |
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Writing Careers 101: Journalism -- taking notes, Truman Capote and the National Enquirer
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| TheOldMole Aug 03 2009 04:28 PM |
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(Not so) Great Beginnings Monday: Robert B. Parker
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| TheOldMole Aug 03 2009 09:39 PM |
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Out of work? Write that novel!
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| TheOldMole Aug 05 2009 08:38 AM |
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Writing Careers 101: Grammar counts! (And even the New York Times can mess it up)
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| TheOldMole Aug 07 2009 11:12 AM |
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RIP, and what you can learn about writing from John Hughes
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| TheOldMole Aug 10 2009 07:07 PM |
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Great Beginnings Monday: Nikolai Gogol
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| TheOldMole Aug 11 2009 08:26 AM |
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Writing careers 101: Writing classes in NYC
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| TheOldMole Aug 27 2009 11:01 AM |
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What you can learn about writing from Ellie Greenwich
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| TheOldMole Sep 09 2009 01:00 PM Re: Writing Careers Examiner |
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bit.ly/zT4Mz
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| TheOldMole Sep 10 2009 12:44 PM Re: Writing Careers Examiner |
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New York Public Library: Art and the Subway
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| TheOldMole Sep 20 2009 08:49 AM Re: Writing Careers Examiner |
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Writing careers 101: How to break into the magazine freelance field
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| TheOldMole Sep 28 2009 12:25 PM Re: Writing Careers Examiner |
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What you can learn about writing from topless choreographers
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| TheOldMole Oct 28 2009 09:50 AM Re: Writing Careers Examiner |
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Saying a lot with just a few words.
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| TheOldMole Nov 08 2009 08:35 PM Re: Writing Careers Examiner |
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What can you say about a 40 year old novel that won't die?
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| TheOldMole Dec 13 2009 05:10 PM Re: Writing Careers Examiner |
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New Year's resolution #1: Write every day (What you can learn about writing from Jerry Seinfeld)
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| TheOldMole Dec 15 2009 11:33 AM Re: Writing Careers Examiner |
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New Years resolution #1a: What does "writing every day" mean?
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 15 2009 11:37 AM Re: Writing Careers Examiner |
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Gonna do it, thanks.
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| Edgy DC Dec 15 2009 12:48 PM Re: Writing Careers Examiner |
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I started last night. A thousand words on Suzi Quatro. BAM!
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| TheOldMole Dec 22 2009 11:40 AM Re: Writing Careers Examiner |
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New Year's resolution #2: Get your work out there
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| TheOldMole Dec 28 2009 11:54 AM Re: Writing Careers Examiner |
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Should you try to get into an MFA program?
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| TheOldMole Jan 02 2010 06:51 PM Re: Writing Careers Examiner |
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New Year's Resolution #4: Meet those deadlines
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| TheOldMole Jan 05 2010 03:53 PM Re: Writing Careers Examiner |
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New Year's Resolution #5: Make writing a priority (what you can learn from Dear Abby)
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| TheOldMole Jan 12 2010 12:06 PM Re: Writing Careers Examiner |
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When you're stuck in the middle of your novel...why not a threesome with Sarah and Hillary?
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| TheOldMole Jan 19 2010 03:45 PM Re: Writing Careers Examiner |
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RIP Erich Segal and Robert B. Parker.
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