NaNoWriMo Plot Bunnies

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"Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind."
Catherine Drinker Bowen

Random picks

  • Benjamin Errett, author of the new book Jew and Improved: How Choosing to be Chosen Made Me A Better Man (Harper Collins), takes over The Afterword this weekend. Among its many perpetually rehashed innovations, Spy magazine featured an ongoing bit called Logrolling in Our Time, in which they'd pair off authors who'd blurbed each other's books. There's a good sampling of them on page 171 of Spy: The Funny Years, a book every media type really ought to own, at least so they know whose ideas they're ripping off.For example, Anthony Burgess calls Robertson Davies "a...
  • I've always considered myself more spiritual than religious, so it's somewhat interesting that I've found myself in a Christian fiction book contract. I didn't really set out to write Christian fiction -- when I started, I didn't even know the genre existed. I just wanted to tell interesting stories dealing with choices and the people behind them. And because I write stories that draw in readers even without using explicit language, my agent saw an opportunity to find my books a home.
  • Open Letter and Russian Life concurrently published translations of Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov’s The Golden Calf. Now they’re debating whose version better represents the original.
  • That which pooleth in the pit of information. Signs of the Times: Wiley looking at job cuts? Stephen King does vampire comic… Way to push the envelope, Steve! (Though I suppose we should give it a chance… he does surprise still, on occasion) B&N will have an iPad app Signs of the Times: Glenn Douchbeck still driving sales of lefty French book Hollywood trade magazines in peril! Outraged, frightened protestors descend on Capitol Hill by the nothings! Lost Shakespeare play no hoax Mailer’s kid is into strippers… and self-publishing Signs of the Times: New College...
  • The largest problem for e-mail marketers is to build a cost effective list. This is because at the least thirty p.c of the e-mail addresses change on most lists. Subsequently, marketers must go for a extra aggressive strategy with the intention to increase the record and to get more significant funding returns.

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Fast fact about writing

Writers not writing for a living often find enjoyment and small payouts from Web sites seeking material to raise their sites higher in the search engine rankings. Although this is a legitimate practice, the writing being published on the Web can often be less than professional. This lack of professionalism distorts the line between qualified and amateur writers. Writing standards are often not the highest priority as Web sites seek to drive traffic to gain advertising exposure. It seems as if readers are not as concerned about the writing quality, as long as they find a relevant account on a particular topic.