Some Days you have to Laugh.

I was reading the Blog of Stephenie Meyer, the Author of Twilight, and one of the funniest things she had to say was: “The meanest rejection I got came after Little, Brown had picked me up for a three-book deal” Now this is something important to realize in life, just because someone says “I am [...]

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You Suck!

That is, if you are Lucky, You suck. Everyone from Stephen King to J K Rowling, from Ann Rice to Stephenie Meyer, it seems they all have someone that says “They Suck” Entire groups say these people suck and suck hard. So with that in mind, I sincerely hope that one day, you (and I) [...]

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And the petals of her love unfrilled for his….

… short stubby dog collar. (Take that as you will) (Source: Unknown, Provided by Photobucket) We all deal with this. We all suffer from this condition of what do with sex in our stories. Sex in stories seems to be an aspect of life as a writer, because it is an aspect of life as [...]

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Looking for Fearlessly.

Few things in this world encompass every trait of human greatness as Dogs do,  Hence my Avatar being a dog toy, the Cuz. Good Cuz/Bad Cuz. Now I was tempted to go with Comedy and Tragedy, for my site, but as much as I enjoy the duality of that Image, that was not exactly what [...]

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Copyright

Ok, we all deal with this. The worry that our work will get stolen. First off, it can’t get “stolen” unless someone physically takes it from you. But the fear is that it will be copied, or more to the point, someone copying the concept, idea or work and then claiming that they did it, [...]

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Every Site Has One.

Ok. so here I am on a writing site, since I bounce around though several writing sites, and I learn that we as writers always have to deal with a special kind of person. The Dregs of Netizn society. We all know the kind of person I am talking about, some forums have several of [...]

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What is a Cliché?

Admit it, many of us have heard this term but few of us really know what exactly a Cliché really is. It seems to be this big bad evil dark cloud that hovers over our work like some hungry beast ready to strike. Well, maybe not, but unless we know what a Cliché is, we [...]

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Something I just stumbled upon.

Well, I was wandering the internut like I normally do in search of subject matter to discuss, well, really I am trolling around looking for how creativity is being extinguished or attacked and lo and behold I met this wonderful dynamic person named C.F. Jackson. Everything she said had this wonderful positive feeling to it, [...]

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That is so cliché

Have we all heard this line in our life? Maybe a bit one too many times? Hummm? What gets me if how it is used too. I think it is about time for a good old fashioned language lesson. (Gotta love Dictionary.Com!) with something called cross-referencing! First of all,I bet most people do not even [...]

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Get the Torches and Pitchforks!

Well lo and behold I was checking out thins and came across someone called Kenneth Goldsmith, a person that makes the claim creativity is dead or something equally stupid. Which sounds like a rip off of: “Everything that can be invented has been invented.“ – Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899 (Take a [...]

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