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    Publications and Publishers newly added to NewPages website:The NewPages Big List of Literary MagazinesThe Meadowland Review - poetry, fiction, photographyMused - poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, artwork, photographySurvivor Chronicles – poetry, fiction, non-fictionMelusine – poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, artStatus Hat! - fiction, creative non-fiction, articles, poetry, musicStirfry –
  • Mind/Body Connection, Salvatore Fichera
    We all know the concept of “mind over matter.” Unfortunately, we, in the western culture, seem to have forgotten that there is also the opposite scenario, whereby the body affects/controls the mind. Here’s a 9-minute excerpt, from a 90-minute seminar, on the need for a healthy body in order to have a healthy mind, a mind which performs optimally (and is less susceptible to degenerative diseases like alzheimers and dementia). More info at www.forzafitness.com
  • Determine How To Experience Piano Online
    If you’re like many people you would like to know how to play the piano. Some individuals took lessons as children and can play reasonably well as adults. Others either never had the chance to take lessons or studied simply a year or 2. If you continue to need to be taught how to play the piano, there are some great online sites available. All musical education, whether studying an instrument or voice, must start at the start with the fundamentals. It is so important that you make a solid foundation that you can build your talents on. Online piano lessons are no different. You want to...
  • Write Greetings Cards for Money Posted By : John. T. Roberts
    According to research some seven billion greetings cards are sold in the USA alone each year. Seven billion take a moment to think about that figure and what it means. It means that those people who write the little verses that go into greetings cards are among the most published authors in the world, and the truth is that you could be one of them! Writing greetings cards for money can be very lucrative lets have a look at what its all about...

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Fast fact about writing

Well-known writers who have suffered from writer's block include George Gissing, Samuel Coleridge, Ralph Ellison, Joseph Mitchell and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Writers who overcame writer's block and published new work after a hiatus of decades include Harold Brodkey, whose novel The Runaway Soul appeared some 30 years after it was first projected, and Henry Roth, whose first novel, Call It Sleep, was published in 1934; his second, Mercy Of A Rude Stream, did not appear until 1994.