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Latest blog posts from A Writer's Edge

Blog House Cleaning
Renting a bull dozer and steam shovel helps to pick up the mess in my house every so often. Books pile up. Clippings accumulate. Filing takes a back seat. And the ironing pile threatens to topple. The blog equivalent of such housekeeping chores includes purging nonfunctional links. (This... Read more...
Published 18 hours ago

Writer's Block and Alcohol
span style="font-weight: bold;"It is a question of quality./spanbr /br /img style="margin: 0pt 10px 1px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.writers-edge.info/uploaded_images/champagne-729544.PNG" alt="Writer's Block and Alcohol" border="0" /The notion that alcohol accompanies... Read more...
Published 2 days ago

Writing on the Radio
Stumbled into a href="http://www.ideas4all.com/"IDEAS4ALL/a website and thought, "What a delightful place to pick up novel notions, actions for articles, and short story sparks." Then I found the section on Arts amp; Culture where the a... Read more...
Published 3 days ago

Sci-Fi Writing
table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="350"tbodytrtd bg="" style="color: rgb(238, 238, 238);" align="center"span style=";font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;font-size:14;color:black;" span style="font-size:100%;"strongI Should Be a Science Fiction... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

Use LinkedIn for Writing Work
img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.writers-edge.info/uploaded_images/web-753753.PNG" alt="" border="0" /Remember the phrases "upwardly mobile" and "social climbing"? If you're old enough, you will. Keep them in mind as you read on.br /br /Quite... Read more...
Published 5 days ago

Writer's Digest Editor Departs, Starts Blog
img style="margin: 10pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.writers-edge.info/uploaded_images/MariaSchneider-739609.PNG" alt="" border="0" /Just a quick alert that Maria Schneider, formerly the editor of span style="font-style: italic;"Writer's Digest/span magazine and... Read more...
Published 5 days ago

Writing for Good: Join Blog Action Day Chain
img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.writers-edge.info/uploaded_images/BlogActionDay08-719306.jpg" alt="" border="0" /br /It is only two weeks until Blog Action Day on October 15. This year we're blogging about poverty. I doubt... Read more...
Published 6 days ago

Writing Websites: Critical Listings
Last month when I wrote about how to have better websites for a book, yourself and your writing, I listed some of the components that enable attracting visitors, capturing their attention to keep them browsing, and causing them to return to your site. I promised to explore each of these... Read more...
Published 7 days ago

Google Book Previews on Websites
img style="margin: 0pt 10px 1px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.writers-edge.info/uploaded_images/gbs_preview_button1-797273.gif" alt="Book Preview by Google" border="0" /Improvements to Google's Book Search service now allows websites to include a "Google Preview" button.... Read more...
Published a week ago

Writing Straight vs. Strait
span class="shw"I won't cite chapter and verse, but in researching publications about writer's block, I came upon a word that confuses many people, me and myself included. I didn't know the right form of span style="font-style: italic;"strait/span to use to indicate financial hardship. The... Read more...
Published a week ago

Mini-Reviews: Fall Releases
My summer reading winds down with two books that couldn't be more dissimilar. The first comes out Tuesday, September 30, and the other is scheduled to arrive on the scene a few days later on October 7. I'm not sure if the cognitive dissonance of reading them together influenced my reactions,... Read more...
Published a week ago

Banned Books Week
You may get a giggle from the a href="http://books.google.com/googlebooks/banned/"Google page/a about 42 classic books challenged or banned in the 2006-2007 year, or you may gag at the idea of being denied access to these well-known titles and authors. Come to think on it, this would make a good... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago