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Welcome to the October 23, 2009 edition of Just Write. We have a great selection of articles this week (as usual) and I’m sure you’ll find something to spark your creativity. Thanks to all who submitted. Remember to show the blog owners we appreciate their efforts, comment and socially bookmark.
Books / Book Reviews
Thursday Bram presents Review: The Winning Proposal posted at thursdaybram.com.
Jim Murdoch presents Foe by J. M. Coetzee posted at The Truth About Lies, saying, “This is the (supposedly) true account of Robinson Crusoe related by a woman, Susan Barton, who shared Cruso’s last year on the island. She relates her account to the writer William Foe hoping that he will turn it into a book. Foe agrees but wanting his book to sell he appears willing to play fast and loose with the truth even to the point of excising the woman from her own account. A fascinating work of metafiction that cleverly tackles both themes of feminism and post-colonialism.”
Contests / Projects / Prompts
Erin Straza presents Creative Stretch #3: Metaphor Hunting posted at Filling My Patch of Sky, saying, “Participate in this edition of the Creative Stretch, with a writing prompt that encourages “the care and feeding of the imagination and the spirit” (Luci Shaw, Breath for the Bones).”
Freelance
Allison Whitehead presents How many writers are there on Second Life? | My Online Freelance Writing Career posted at My Online Freelance Writing Career, saying, “Second Life could be a huge resource many writers are missing out on…”
Janice Campbell presents Overnight Success: What Does It Really Look Like? posted at Janice Campbell, saying, “This is the first of three posts addressing the question of overnight success, particularly as it relates to writers and freelance entrepreneurs. Be sure to read the other two as well!”
Thursday Bram presents Mentoring: A New Business Opportunity For Writers? posted at thursdaybram.com, saying, “Teaching is often an important part of a freelancer’s income, so why not mentoring?”
Poetry / Short Stories
Summer Foovay presents Menopause, is it? posted at Demented-Pixie.com, saying, “An original fairy tale”
The Writing Life
Tiffany Colter presents Fight for it posted at Writing Career Coach, saying, “This artcle gives encouragement to writers to not give up.”
Ginny Wiehardt presents Writing Group Advice posted at Fiction Writing on About.com, saying, “How do you create a writing group that offers honest advice — along with the encouragement you need to implement it? Find out what other writers have to say on the subject.”
Tiffany Colter presents Writing 101: Writing your stories online posted at Examiner, saying, “This article warns writiers on the dangers of posting their stories online.”
Tim King presents I Wanna Write like Nora Roberts: 7 Tips for Prolific Writers posted at Be The Story, saying, “I’m not a big fan of Nora Roberts’s writing, but I admire her prolificacy. I’m not sure how to become as prolific as she, but here are 7 tips I know help if applied consistently.”
Erin Straza presents Life Lessons from Scaredy Squirrel posted at Filling My Patch of Sky, saying, “Recounts the power of a well-written story in the life of a timid writer.”
Writing Tips / Mechanics
Livia Blackburne presents Pillars of the Earth: an example of a prologue done well posted at Livia Blackburne: A Brain Scientist’s Take on Creative Writing.
Angela England, Feature Writer presents Writing an Online Article – How-tos and a Basic Template – Angela England posted at Angela England, saying, “A tutorial of how to structure an article or blog post for online web-writing.”
Amitha Knight presents Monkey Poop – 3 Writing Lessons from Battlestar Galactica posted at Monkey Poop.
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Recently, the writer and neurologist Alice W. Flaherty has argued that literary creativity is a function of specific areas of the brain, and that writer's block may be the result of brain activity being disrupted in those areas.