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Write On!
Have you watched a toddler with an iPad or iPhone lately? On a plane the other day, I set next to mom with her 1 year-old, absorbed by modern day story telling. It dawned on me writers without kids may be missing out on valuable lessons re: what's possible these days. Storytelling of today and the future is called Next Generation. Check out the TED talk by Mike Matas Scoop-it on this page! 
HootSuite helps you schedule your New Media posts and tweets and more. Check out the comprehensive guides. 
Elizabeth S. Craig is an author who's got the platform thing down. Follow her on Twitter and you'll keep abreast of the latest tips for writers. In her guest post on the Jungle Red blog she shares how she manages her time. Write First, Write On! 
Blogging tips from the Huffington Post may help you with a HuffPost blogging opportunity. By the way I still can't stand that verb "to blog". Used to be one wrote a post for a blog. Still feel a similar "pang" as when I read or hear "scrapbooking" what kind of race are you running? To which I say to myself: get with the times Dutchess. 
Check out Carolyn's example, she's got her author platform in order. 
The perfect read for a day off. Are you writing one? Or do you have some 50K stories lying around? Melville House Publishing has opened a door ... 
Therapeutic massage. An intricate weave of ancient eastern with modern western bodywork and massage disciplines.
No this is not the wrong link to the headline. This is just an example of how a licensed massage therapist protects herself from being sued by a client.
Does the headline make you: wonder click on the link?
Four years of hard work, thank goodness, he did have to work on his platform and readership. Now this is a lesson in how headlines are formed, shaped and most effective.
Feeling better already about the years I've been putting in. Dorothy Allison predicted 10, I'm close. 
Today is the birthday of Henry James, a good day to share Victoria Mixon's reflections on the author's work. 
Submissions for the Spring 2012 issue are now closed. Please check back around May 1st for the call for submissions for our Fall 2012 issue. 
Barbara Roden generously offers readers a lesson in editing. Yes, this is Part Two. Go to her blog to find Part One. Why not work your way back? It's more fun. I hope she'll cut her blog posts in yet smaller sections and feed them to her readers bit by bit.
Cara Black - Murder in the Marais - User Rating: 3 stars. Review Summary: It tries hard, but this debut is only average.
My reason for scooping up this review is that I agree with its writer. The only point we differ on concerns the use of (what the reviewer calls —common phrases in French— that she doesn't recognize, which was off putting to her.
I do understand French, and enjoyed the indeed common remarks, but did wonder whether the author could get away with leaving them untranslated. For me as a bilingual writer it's very important to know that you can't take your readers' knowledge of foreign languages for granted.
Not just that, what's common knowledge in one language (or culture, country, or even state) is not in another.
The tric is not to take your readers for granted, not to underestimate them, and yet to be clear and intriguing at the same time.
PS I'm still reading the novel, for all the reasons mentioned by the reviewer, Cara Black takes me to Paris, got to love that. 
Psychological research suggests simple actions can project power, persuade others, increase empathy, boost cognitive performance and more…...
This my dears, is not just about how to behave yourself, but how your characters behave! Wonderful pointers from the folks at PSY BLOG |
Our Choice will change the way we read books. And quite possibly change the world. You know what it's like to be talking to a dead phone? Saying really profound things to your best friend, and not hear any acknowledging humming, no scratching of throat, no sign of life and you suddenly realize the connection has failed?
You hang up and call your friend again and find out he missed the whole story. You might as well have been talking to a wall. And shoot, you don't feel like repeating yourself, the momentum is gone.
Same can happen when you post your Tweets at the wrong time of the day, share your thoughts or links on Facebook outside the prime time and too often.
Check out the linked graph to see when your updates are most effective. If it looks like backeast rules the clock, well, so be it.
Would be good to have a similar graph for Europe, now wouldn't it? Or would it be the same? People going to work, checking tweets and Facebook timelines at lunch time and after work, but really, really take the time to post and read on Saturday.
Social Media Weekenders :-) 
This list of 10 ways to create a happy fan base is by no means exhaustive, but if you keep these 10 happiness producing, love sharing, reputation building tips, you will be amazed made by how quickly word spreads about the great work you’re doing,... 
Want to know the difference between the blogger and the journalist? The former does it for love (and perhaps for virtual clips, recognition, platform creation, readership, recognition, future paid-for opportunities etc. 
The best articles on writing on the web.
If you follow Elizabeth S. Craig —even a little bit, you'll come across the most wonderful links. Everything is kept for future reference a the Writer's Knowledge Base. How wonderful is that? Most wonderful indeed. Some people ... are the square root of generous. 
There are many parts to building a screenplay. It's a mistake to think you just sit down and write one.
And that's so true. Print out these pointers and get going. 5+ days left to finish a ScriptFrenzy draft:-) 
Take a break, Jim Behrie will lighten your load. 
A new book explains humans like to spin yarns—and why we're so likely to stretch the truth when we do. Via Cathryn Wellner 
The power of ‘enclothed cognition’: how what you wear affects how you think.
Funny, I remember my initial surprise seeing my (then) husband for the first time in the chemistery lab. A white coat on a hippy musician/ scientist. Later as a post-doc working for Nobel Prize Winners in U.S. and France, the coat was seldom worn. What happened to this character? |
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