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  Another C Word
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Another C Word By Rebecca the Bookseller aka Kathy Sweeney Some people waive it off, as if it were nothing. Some people cringe just hearing it. Some people are vigilant - preparing defensive tactics. I'm talking, of course, about Cramps....

  Chased Around The Desk
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Chased Around the Desk by Nancy A few months back, famed former basketball player Isiah Thomas, coach of the New York Knicks, found himself in a pickle. A female executive, Anucha Browne Sanders, claimed Mr. Thomas sexually harassed her in...

  Blind links
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When I post links here on NRJW, I'm usually pretty careful to tell you where they will take you. Well, not today. You're just going to have to trust me.Writers, don't click here unless you have a black sense of humor.Don't click here if you are hoping to publish a volume of poetry. (This post darn near made me cry, and I'm...

  Wednesday From the Mini-Vacation
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Have done no writing yet. But my youngest does stop-motion videos, and he and I put together his most recent one–a process that took four days and about twenty hours.

  Early Man
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Early Man By Elaine Viets Because love is strange, chances are one partner in a couple wakes up at dawn. The other sleeps till noon. This marriage of late and early risers won’t lie down and go away. It leads...

  Think plagiarism is against the law? Think again.
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Did that headline shock you? If so, you need to brush up on your copyright facts. Plagiarism is a moral issue, not a legal one. Copying someone else's work and presenting it as your own is dishonest, but it is not necessarily illegal. If I didn't possess a conscience and have such a sharp bunch of editors at Steeple Hill...

  Who Scares Ya, Baby?
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Who Scares Ya, Baby? By Sarah If you've been calling my home lately and found you're unable to reach me, I apologize. The thing is, I'm in hiding - from my son's piano teacher. I know what you're thinking: what...

  Word Count
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Jess has asked this question: “In all your years of writing books, did you ever come up short in word count?” Word count never came up until I signed with Ballantine about five years ago.  No one said anything about it.  I wrote until it was finished. Some books were longer than others. ...

  The accidental novelist
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Here's a bit of encouragement for novel writers from Neil Gaiman's blog:The second draft is where the fun is. In a first draft, you get to explode. The objective (at least for me) is to get it down on paper, somehow. Battle through the laziness and the not-enough-time and the this-is-rubbish and everything else, and just get...

  Wedding Bell Blues/Blacks/Whites
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Wedding Bell Blues/blacks/whites By Harley On Friday, I heard on NPR (my primary news source, along with STAR magazine at the grocery checkout line) that Jenna Bush was getting married. “What?” I thought. “Why wasn’t I told? Why wasn’t I...

  
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