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After 22 years of a blogging life, and leading up
to retirement, I researched the best way to escape its most troublesome demands.
Found a foolproof method for those who have acquired twitchy writing syndrome
but don't want the hassle of readers. Write books. Hide them on Amazon.
Dec 23, 2023 | |
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Writing is electricity. Unconfined by wires.
Dec 1, 2023
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Is it strange I linger time,
hearing voices of the dead and long ago,
speaking out to others new, unseen
and not yet born?
The time that is mine is metered out in books.
You said - hello. It took a while to reach me.
And You who read my old words, is it strange for You too?
Feb 18, 2024 | |
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You see and judge me... fairly, by my words last
published.
I see and judge myself... harshly, by the next that I am writing.
Forever writer's curse.
The page, as writ...
false window for you,
false
mirror for me.
March 3, 2024 | |
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There is no quantum or quality metric which makes
you a writer. No great sentence written, tweet or book will leave you satisfied.
And no amount of readers, accolades or money earned. It's turning up every day,
rain or shine with the stubborn will to do something unexpected.
Feb 15, 2024 | |
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#WritingCommmunity
We write anticipating media's edges.
stone
wood
skin
stolen scraps (un)lined paper
illicit typewriter
unconstrained pc
teletype
sms
email
twitter
finger, flint, quill, pen, pencil, voice
blood, soot, ink
code
Use the power of your different writer voices.
Feb 15, 2024
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You have a power to invent realities which will
entertain and captivate future readers and deliver a refreshing effect to their
lives. My advice? remember to enjoy those first glimpses yourself. Don't let the
trudgery of polishing those word windows into your story wear you down.
Feb 4, 2024 | |
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If you can write 2 consecutive paragraphs which
say something small in each one, and seemingly more when the one follows the
other, from that point "writing well" is a simple game of leapfrog.
Jan 12, 2024
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Some of the best read books in certain countries
began their lives as samizdat (banned and censored books without publishers or
covers).
When I become rich and famous from my writing I might change the
covers of my less well known books.
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4, 2023
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...we can learn a lot about the responsibilities
which attend writing by being conscious of the written word's power to influence
people we don't know. Even badly written text can do this - evidenced by scams.
Feb 25, 2024 | |
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Books (real and imagined) come into all my
published stories and wips. I wasn't aware how much of a thing this might be
until very recently.
Feb 24, 2024
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In my little windy garden as I catch the smoke of
the Dungeness passing through
I smile and wave at those who pass,
sometimes many, sometimes few.
For I have been in that company
too,
wondering what those in little windy gardens do. |
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| Aug 15, 2023
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Sunday morning. Kitchen sink. Admiring my new
gardeners hard at work in the wild meadow seeding the ground for next year. Now
I see them. Now I don't. Can judge where they are by the fountains of flower
petals erupting as they bounce on grass stalk ladders as only goldfinches do.
Jun 4, 2023
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The world is not yet so rich it can afford to
lose a single writer's voice.
(inspired by a tweet thread started by @authorKBFisher who wrote
about the physical toll of writing)
Jun 29, 2023 | |
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Writing books creates landscapes of words which
enrichen our planet and nourish the soul of the writer. Was North America any
less beautiful before Europeans commercialised it? If your words change the
course of a single life to a more positive direction that counts more than $$$
Jun 14, 2023 | |
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This is Traitor the cat in my wip
The Remote.
Shot taken in August 2023 part way through deciding on the which
filler to use in the letter "O".
Dungeness
font design, Kat graphic and cover design all by
Paddy
Hamilton @dungenessstudio
The novel will be around Dec 2025 |
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| Mar 2, 2024
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When I self declare myself to be - a writer
Kids say - That's cool!
Adults think - Idiot!
If given the choice in censuses/surveys - I tick those boxes - prefer
not to say - because I don't trust future data scrapers.
Shot my cred now with "censuses" haven't I?
Mar 1, 2024
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A funny thing I observed in real life (and maybe
you have too) is when a bilingual is out and about in English society they get
accustomed to voicing judgemental comments about what they observe in their "secret"
language but then carry on doing it in the line at the airport too.
Feb 27, 2024 | |
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I have a "polite awareness of the existence
of grammar - which is another delaying tactic for writers - like safely crossing
the street would take longer if you paused to appreciate the brand names of all
the passing cars"
from my bio goblinsearch.com/writer.html |
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books I've read from
authors connected on twitter
From time to time I'll feature here
some books I've read from the wonderful writers I met on X / formerly twitter. | |
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Murder on the Alpha
Centauri Express
by Steve Downes -
author's own website
who
tweets here: @writer_s_downes |
I wrote a
long and
appreciative review here on goblinsearch.
"My thoughts went
back to Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and some detective themed stories in Isaac
Asimov's Robot books - The Caves of Steel. It was a good feeling. But there was
something more too. As if H G Wells had managed to include a glimpse of Star
Trek in his time machine but had written about what he saw in an artful way
which his contemporary Victorian readers would be able follow." |
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Secrets of the Nile
by
PauleneTurner - author's own website
who
tweets here: @PauleneTurner |
I wrote a
short review of this on Amazon "intrigued
by the cover, captivated by the sample, loved the book I'm so glad I took the
risk of trying this story..."
Later:- I read and reviewed the next
2 books in the series too.
Re book #2 - Revenge of the Black Knight:
- On
Amazon I said - Sorry I can't say more about the book but I have to leave
you while I click back to the kindle store and buy the next one in the series..
- On X I
tweeted - Demographically I'm more Oh Yea than YA, but I recently finished
reading Revenge of the Black Knight by @PauleneTurner as an antidote to reading
darker non fiction. I whizzed through it in a busy weekend. So enjoyable and
uplifting with clever twists and engaging characters
Re book #3 -
Shoot-out at Death Canyon
- On X I
tweeted - You'll never see a gunfight the same way again. All the westerns
you've ever enjoyed rolled into a rich time traveling tapestry of wild west
rough riding and high stake gambles. Wish I could travel forwards in time right
now to start reading book #4.
And as I write this (in April
2024) I'm eagerly awaiting Paulene's 4th. |
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The Secret at Sunset
Hill
by K.T. McGivens -
author's
web page
who tweets here: @KMcgivens |
I hadn't yet acquired the
habit of writing reviews when I read Secret at Sunset Hill. At that time I had
about 20 followers on twitter and my web site didn't have links or blurbs to
all my own books that I'd recently self published either. But you've got to
start new habits somewhere right?
I saw a
tweet by the
author and
I replied this
- I just finished your first. Not a genre I've read much before. Except Dorothy
Sayers - does that count? A long time ago. Now I'm a convert. The Secret at
Sunset Hill was a delight. Washed my cares away. If it hadn't been for twitter I
would never have known what I was missing. |
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