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Still querying along…

October 9, 2006

For yet another week, two lucky agent assistants or interns will get the chance to try to convince their bosses …

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Eat your veggies….

October 2, 2006

Several months ago, I made the confession that personal trainers aren\’t supposed to make. I don\’t like drinking water. So …

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Oh, My, I\’m a World Class Poet Now!!

September 30, 2006

Your poem, Selected by Noble House publishers, United Kingdom I got an email from Noble House Publishing. Apparently, some editor …

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The Word for the Day….PACE

September 29, 2006

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1) – pace1  [peys] noun, verb, paced, pac‧ing. –noun 1. a rate of movement, esp. in stepping, …

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Maybe we should call it the Query Factory

September 26, 2006

The book, the World War II book that STILL doesn\’t have a title I love, is finally \”done.\” That means …

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And on the Eighth day, there was progress….

August 28, 2006

Things are going well at the Story Factory this month. We are currently on chapter 22 of the novel currently …

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It\’s all about the tools…

August 21, 2006

And Ernest Hemingway used Dixon Ticonderoga Number 1 pencils. For those of you who never took drafting, that is the …

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IT\’S ALMOST TIME!!

August 15, 2006

Sorry to shout, but it\’s almost time. Time to start thinking and plotting and daydreaming about a set of characters …

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Turtle writing

August 14, 2006

\”It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I haveendless drafts, one after another; and I …

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Slow and steady wins the race…

August 12, 2006

I have been editing a 550 page novel at the amazing rate of 20 pages per day. Okay, it was …

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