Oh Those Social Agents

You on Facebook yet? Do you Tweet? How about LinkedIn? MySpace? There are many good reasons for authors to have a presence on social networking sites. Some literary agents also

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Body Double

“If we had to say what writing is, we would define it essentially as an act of courage.” – Cynthia Ozick Even on good days I need little tricks to

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Mac Envy

I learned to word process in 1987 on Word Perfect 4.1 for DOS. PC logic lives deep in my bones. But today, for the first time in twenty years, I

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When All Else Fails . . .

. . . get more software. While my attempts to use various types of software to write my book have not been completely productive, according to the recent New York

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Memoir Week at Slate.com

In a fit of pure procrastination, I surfed over to Slate.com and saw that they’re featuring information on memoirs this week. Their critics are reviewing memoirs and memoirists and discussing

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Anything to Avoid Writing

Yesterday I finished writing up thirteen pages of notes in an attempt to analyze Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking. The paper I need to write on the topic

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Procrasticize

Does walking around the neighborhood thinking about how nice it would be to turn your neighbor’s house into a studio so you could really get some work done count as

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