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Elgon Williams
Jan 18, 20194 min read
If Ever I Go Back Home Again
I don't know when it happened that most people in American lived in or around cities. When I grew up on a farm in the 1960's and early...
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Nola Nash
Jan 15, 20192 min read
Strange Bedfellows- Writers and Day Jobs
All I really want to do is write all day. Even the editing part. Hell, even the writing the book synopsis part. But I can't. I have a day...
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Seth Augenstein
Jan 8, 20193 min read
Bad Juju and the Rule of Three
Things happen in threes. This is the wisdom behind breathless reporting of celebrity deaths, and other unabashed holdovers of strange...
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Laura Kemp
Jan 3, 20193 min read
It's a marathon... not a sprint
Months, even years of anticipation have led you to this day- the moment of your big BOOK RELEASE. You’ve been prepping, editing,...
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Elgon Williams
Dec 28, 20183 min read
Settling In
It’s been a week since I flew into LAX to begin a new chapter of my life in Southern California. For the most part I’m settled in, now....
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Ward Parker
Dec 21, 20182 min read
Moral Qualms About Killing? Not in my Writing
Like most people who aren’t psychopaths, I have problems with killing other living creatures. Okay, I manage to ignore these problems...
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Jeff Messick
Dec 20, 20182 min read
The Spirit of the Season
Merry Christmas everyone! It's my favorite time of year, due to several reasons. One of which, it's no longer the blazing summer heat of...
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Nola Nash
Dec 15, 20183 min read
Dispelling 3 Common Myth-conceptions About Writers
Let's face it. Writers are a weird and interesting bunch of folks. So, it comes as no surprise that we are often misunderstood. Well,...
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Seth Augenstein
Dec 8, 20184 min read
Reading Whatever We Damn Well Please
We get older, we get more set in our ways. It’s as inevitable as wrinkles and knee aches. We get set in our ways, and we stop changing....
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Laura Kemp
Dec 3, 20183 min read
How to Prepare for the Launch of Your Book Baby
I’m pretty organized, (as in OCD-organized) but even I get overwhelmed at times. My upcoming book launch on December 12th has made me...
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Laura Ellen Scott
Nov 26, 20182 min read
My Christmas List
You never know how terrifying Christmas morning can be until your dad spends the whole present budget on a unicycle for your mom. I...
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Ward Parker
Nov 21, 20182 min read
Are You Inspired by Nightmares?
I won’t go into the scientific causes of nightmares, from anxiety to trauma to burritos eaten too late at night. Instead, I want to talk...
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Benny Sims
Nov 17, 20182 min read
Afraid Of The Light
This article is for all those who write short stories, novels, poems, or songs, but haven’t yet gathered enough courage to show them to...
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Seth Augenstein
Nov 7, 20183 min read
Eating Each Other in America
Tonight the results of the 2018 U.S. midterm elections will come streaming in – first as a trickle, then as an hysterical gush of hot...
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Nicole Asselin
Nov 6, 20182 min read
It's the most wonderful time of the year!
No no, not the holidays. It's finally FALL! I hate summer. There, I said it. I hate being hot. I hate getting sweaty. And like most...
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Laura Kemp
Nov 4, 20183 min read
Writing THAT scene... or 'How to face your relatives after they read your book.'
I remember it clearly- I was attending my college professor’s book reading at the local library, a successful man I had a great deal of...
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Elgon Williams
Oct 28, 20184 min read
My Life Reduced to Four Boxes, a Suitcase and Two Carry-Ons
Have I told you I’m moving in a few weeks? I think I did. California here I come! My son and daughter-in-law are having a baby, my first...
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Laura Ellen Scott
Oct 26, 20184 min read
Domestic Adventures Part One: The Design Fields
I can’t make any sort of official announcement about what my partner and I are up to these days, but if I tell you we’ve been reading...
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Matt Coleman
Oct 25, 20186 min read
Some NaNoWriMo Advice From a Never Timer
Let’s get this out of the way up front. I have never participated in National Novel Writing Month. Not one time. Didn’t even start it and th
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Joanna Evans
Oct 23, 20182 min read
You Can Never See a Classic Horror Film Too Many Times
Every fall, I spend October re-watching my favorite Halloween horror flicks, many of them black and white, or full of lovely seventies...
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