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An idea that’s not ALL wet

Get ready to hit the pause button and capture the QR code on your phone!…

Should you join the digital revolution? This guy’s got the answers.

Here it is. One stop shopping for answers to the quaetions you’ve been asking yourself.

*insert hauntingly mystical soundtrack here*

 

Links to posts by David Gaughran, found on his blog: Let’s Get Digital.…

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the complete list of linda’s electronic shorts

Apologies to the folks who had difficulty finding the list.

all links are here…. download and be reading within seconds.

CLICK THE CAPITAL LETTERS FOR A LINK TO AMAZON/KINDLE

click the lower case words for a link to all e-readers, including phones, computers and high tech stuff yet to reach the USA

                  1. LEGAL THRILLER

         based on a true crime in 1970′s Philadelphia

2. ADULT THEMED FAIRY TALES IN SNIPPETS 

             ever wonder what someone is thinking?

3. LIKE YOUR

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Writing Habits of Famous Writers and Poets

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Toni Morrison

INTERVIEWER
You have said that you begin to write before dawn. Did this habit begin for practical reasons, or was the early morning an especially fruitful time for you?

MORRISON
Writing before dawn began as a necessity–I had small children when I first began to write and I needed to use the time before they said, Mama–and that was always around five in the morning. Many years later, after I stopped working at Random House, I just stayed at home for a couple of years. I discovered things about myself I had never thought about before. At first

Habits of Famous Writers

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Stephen King

“There are certain things I do if I sit down to write,” he said. “I have a glass of water or a cup of tea. There’s a certain time I sit down, from 8:00 to 8:30, somewhere within that half hour every morning,” he explained. “I have my vitamin pill and my music, sit in the same seat, and the papers are all arranged in the same places. The cumulative purpose of doing these things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind, you’re going to be dreaming soon.

“It’s not

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Writing Goals in the New Year

She said it so well… all I can do is point you in the right direction—> http://writeitsideways.com/master-this-skill-before-setting-new-writing-goals/

You’ll thank me.…

Book Reviews

Book Reviews
book reviews, got one. never did one. needs more.

When writers retreat… to the beach

When writers retreat... to the beach

Beach getaway, writers retreat, writing retreat

You could have been home now if you were a part of Write by the Water Retreat in Santa Rosa Beach

That old question answered: How do I get an agent?

Um… well. First, you get him really, really drunk.

Or not. I wrote about it over here: READ ME.

When Writers Find Each Other

When Writers Find Each Other

This is my friend, Gwen Morrison.

We had this fantastic idea to start up a writers retreat… okay truth be known, we wanted our own quiet beachfront getaway, so we came up with Write by the Water, thinking, OF COURSE OTHER WRITERS WANT THIS TOO!

Turns out, yep, crazy as it sounds, the idea of a communal house of like-minded creatives motivating and encouraging each other is pretty darned appealing.

Our first retreat is on the gulf coast of Florida, on a strip of beach called The Emerald Coast. I would tell you all about it, send you pictures …

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