Tag: writing
member name: Thom Palmer
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January 16, 2008 12:33 PM EST --
My esteemed Gather colleague and connection Nick K. recently posted a plaintive piece on poetry appreciation, or lack thereof. "Oh cursed verse, I rarely get ye" cites a few of . . .
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February 08, 2007 02:41 PM EST --
I am self-employed and work from home. These days, my name is Legion, for we are many. You read about our kind all the time on MSN, perhaps with longing. We’re always writing feature articles such . . .
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February 22, 2008 12:29 PM EST --
It was a day like any other in this rummy business. I had given my secretary Lana the afternoon off to go hat shopping. I was sitting in my office, feet up on the desk, honing my computer solitaire skills . . .
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April 13, 2007 09:45 AM EDT --
This is the first in a series of pieces in which the author discusses going from unpublished to published author and back again, the art and business of literature, and myriad matters of living the writing . . .
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May 14, 2007 01:16 PM EDT --
“A Once and Future Novelist” series continues, wherein, after much time and life, the author grows dim while the writer vanishes.
“No doubt a certain number of those trained by . . .
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February 29, 2008 09:00 AM EST --
I had something to write, a piece that was going to make some dame a hit with some dweeby Web community—though why a dame who looked like our Miss Vye aka Dashwood needed to write anything to gain . . .
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August 17, 2007 02:17 PM EDT --
I had nine or 12 more clever titles for this article, but in the end, taking the direct approach just seemed more, well, direct. And so, after 16 years, a little bit of angst, a lot of rewrites, and a . . .
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May 04, 2007 10:13 AM EDT --
“A Once and Future Novelist”series continued, wherein the author tries to explain how he comes to embark on independent authorship (self-publishing), sixteen years after the publication of . . .
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July 13, 2007 12:03 PM EDT --
My second novel, Desire, will very soon be published by iUniverse—sixteen years after the publication of my first novel, The Florentine Papers. Though I don’t, at this writing, have the official . . .
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June 05, 2007 03:00 PM EDT --
“A Once and Future Novelist” series concludes.
“Literature is fun, but it is also business.”
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February 26, 2008 11:44 AM EST --
I needed to kill some time and clear my head before starting on her piece. Yeah, I agreed to do it, but I wouldn't take any money from her -- a half-assed technicality that I imagined still allowed . . .
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February 20, 2006 08:40 AM EST --
I do not feel old. Perhaps because there are no real physical infirmities. Unless one counts as a physical infirmity that male phenomenon wherein the nails on one's big toes turn into some thick, hard . . .
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