Back in 2006 I wrote a book called, The Trading Assistant's Assistant. It was about being an eBay Trading Assistant, as you likely guessed from the title. It sold pretty well for a little while and then eBay totally revamped the TA program and the book became woefully...
I've written 128,680Â words so far this year. Considering my goal was to write 200,000 words total by the end of the year, I would say that's pretty impressive. Needless to say, I bumped my goal up to 300,000 and added a new little line on my insane spreadsheet that...
I've got two great photographs from West Linn High School's production of The Love of Three Oranges courtesy of this review from the WestLinn Tidings. They did the show as a more traditional commedia play with masks and it looks great! [gallery columns="1"...
Writing advice comes in all types because so do writers. We all write very differently both in style and in process so it makes sense that writing advice doesn't just come in one flavor. Let's face it, there is never going to be that one single thing that works for...
No matter how badly this month is going (and I, too, am oh so behind) you've got to stick this Camp NaNoWriMo journey out until the very end because... ...my pep talk won't come out until the end of the month and if you quit early, you'll miss it! Oh, yeah and blah,...
I was having a crisis over having to rewrite my entire book the other day and I finally realized that it came down to the realization that I would be tossing out a lot of writing. Not just writing but Really Good Writing. Every other time I've had to trash a project...
Long Suffering Husband is reading Knuffle Bunny to the toddler. They are enjoying it together and it's a very sweet moment. He finishes and says, "That's such a nice story. It's just this dad hanging out with is daughter and the illustrations are so simple." And I'm...
The Love of 3 Oranges is a Commedia D'ell Arte scenario by Carlo Gozzi around 1761. The play was later adapted in 2002 by the brilliant composer Sergei Prokofiev as a full stage play. -SOURCE. Someone's research went terribly wrong here. Sergei Prokofiev wrote an...
One more cool piece of news out of that great production of The Love of Three Oranges out of Longwood University. I'll let the University's press release do the talking: Three Longwood theatre faculty receive awards from Kennedy Center American College Theater...
At this point in the year, us NaNoWriMo alumni are all in very different places in our writing life. Some of you are undertaking my Editing Challenge and working towards getting that novel you wrote during NaNoWriMo ready for the world. Others are still finishing...
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