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Archive for November 2009
The Route Book at Bedtime
Post from routepublishing
Monday, November 30, 2009, 4:44 pm
Read more: Writing
A note from editor Ian Daley on the publication of The Route Book at Bedtime, a title that marks a decade of the Route series of contemporary stories.
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Blog of the Week – People’s Blog (Everton FC)
Post from Omni Writers & Artists admin
Monday, November 30, 2009, 2:34 pm
Read more: Uncategorized
People’s Blog is a site with the kind of slick quality Everton manager David Moyes would like to see from his side.
The day’s headlines, from a team of writers, scroll on the front page in an attractive widget and you can also watch videos from YouTube direct from the site.
Editorially the site sensibly splits ‘real’ [...]
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Five Writing Tasks while the Internet is Down
Post from Writers Anonymous
Monday, November 30, 2009, 11:43 am
Read more: Writing
There’s not much that’s more frustrating than having an unavailable Internet connection.
This goes double or triple for someone like me, whose livelihood (and therefore ability to continue putting food on the table) depends on Internet access. If my Internet connection is down, I am unable to add content, fix problems, respond to user questions, approve [...]
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Pick Up on South Street
Post from Lee Goldberg
Monday, November 30, 2009, 6:44 am
Read more: Writing
Tonight’s showing in my personal film noir film festival was Sam Fuller’s PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET starring Richard Widmark as a two-bit pick-pocket who lifts a billfold from a lady’s purse on the subway. The billfold contains a stolen film-strip…
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Vanishing Point
Post from Lee Goldberg
Monday, November 30, 2009, 2:04 am
Read more: Writing
Today I watched VANISHING POINT, the 1971 movie starring a white Dodge Challenger and Barry Newman. The car was a lot more charismatic that its c0-star. I do not get what all the hoopla is about over this movie, which…
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The Outfit
Post from Lee Goldberg
Sunday, November 29, 2009, 8:47 pm
Read more: Writing
I’m continuing my Holiday weekend film festival of crime movies I’ve alwasy meant to see, but have somehow missed. Last night, I finally got around to THE OUTFIT, writer-director John Flynn’s 1973 adaptation of the Richard Stark novel. Robert Duvall…
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LICENSE TO PUBLISH 2
Post from Automotive Artist
Sunday, November 29, 2009, 3:26 pm
Read more: Art
57 PONTIAC TAILFIN1957 Pontiac tailfin with blue-dot.An iconic tribute to fins ‘n’ chrome ‘n’ rock ‘n’ roll…Licences to publish this painting in magazines, books, brochures, and printed material is now available for one year or two years. $1500 and $…
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LICENSE TO PUBLISH
Post from Automotive Artist
Sunday, November 29, 2009, 3:21 pm
Read more: Art
TO BE OVERA painting that is completely imaginative and conceptual, not representing any real place…Has a surreal quality…Licences to publish this painting in magazines, books, brochures, and printed material is now available for one year or two ye…
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Sunday Secrets
Post from Post Secret
Sunday, November 29, 2009, 6:04 am
Read more: Art
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where peoplemail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.HopeLine Fundraiser on twitter this Thursday. Tellyour friends & follow @postsecret for more details.—–Email Message—–Dear Fran…
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PostSecret Events (incomplete)
Post from Post Secret
Sunday, November 29, 2009, 6:02 am
Read more: Art
11-30-90DeNaples CenterScranton, PA–Sold-Out–12-4-09Michigan TheaterAnn Arbor, MIRSVP on Facebook | Buy Tickets Online1-10-10New World StageManhattan, NYRSVP on Facebook | Buy Tickets OnlineBecome a PostSecret “Fan” on Facebookfor PostSecret Event up…
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Blast of Silence
Post from Lee Goldberg
Saturday, November 28, 2009, 6:31 am
Read more: Writing
I finally saw Allen Baron’s 1961 movie BLAST OF SILENCE, a brutal, cold piece of low-budget film noir that I’ve been hearing great things about for years. I’m pleased to report that it lives up to the hype…and is unlike…
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Nude Dudes
Post from Lee Goldberg
Saturday, November 28, 2009, 1:41 am
Read more: Writing
Back in the mid-80s, when I was still a freelancer writer, I wrote hundreds of articles for STARLOG and their sister magazines, including FANGORIA, COMICS SCENE, and ALLURE, their feeble attempt at their own version of PLAYGIRL. Just what the…
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Stephen King Writing Sequel to The Shining
Post from Writers Write
Saturday, November 28, 2009, 12:00 am
Read more: Writing
Stephen King is writing a sequel to The Shining. The sequel will focus on Jack Torrance’s clairvoyant little boy Danny, who barely escaped from the nightmare at the Overlook Hotel. In the sequel Danny is 40 and working at a New York hospice. King told fans in Toronto that he’s been working on the idea since last summer.
Danny, he said, was certain to have been left “with a lifetime’s worth of emotional scars” after his experiences at the Overlook, where his father was possessed by the hotel, tried to kill him and his mother and eventually died.
How Danny deals with both his nightmarish experiences and the clairvoyance, or “shining”, which saved him, might make “a damn fine sequel”, King said, according to local Toronto news website the Torontoist. His vision of the book — tentatively called Doctor Sleep — sees Danny now aged 40, working at a hospice for the terminally ill in upstate New York. He is apparently an orderly at the hospice, but his real work is to help make death a little easier for the dying patients with his psychic powers — while making a little money on the side by betting on the horses.
King’s fans got so excited that he seemed a bit worried, saying he wasn’t “completely committed” to the project yet. Then he waffled some more, saying
“Maybe if I keep talking about it I won’t have to write it.” Oh, it’s much too late to back out now. He can’t tease us like that and not follow through.
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Wyatt is back
Post from Lee Goldberg
Friday, November 27, 2009, 11:04 pm
Read more: Writing
I’m a big Garry Disher fan…but as much as I like his Inspector Challis books, I absolutely love his WYATT novels, which are an Aussie take on Donald Westlake’s Parker. It has been years since the last one, but now…
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Post from Alex Wire
Friday, November 27, 2009, 5:35 pm
Read more: Art, Writing
Still tired. Still depressed. Full of cold. Very snotty and my throat feels about a millimetre wide. Will be at least three more hours until I can get home and tell the world to fuck off for a few days while I try and recover. Feel like I might slip in…
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A Spider’s Web
Post from Writers Anonymous
Friday, November 27, 2009, 11:36 am
Read more: Writing
This was written in response to this week’s writing prompt. Enjoy!
Susan the spider was busy that day,
Lots to do, she had, before time passed away.
On her web, she furiously worked,
Threading her web, she pushed and she jerked.
Round and round, she worked in a curve,
Creating a web for a dinner deserved.
When she had finished, she [...]
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Mr. Monk Gets The Greenlight
Post from Lee Goldberg
Thursday, November 26, 2009, 8:14 pm
Read more: Writing
Andy Breckman ( the creator of MONK), NBC/U (the owners of MONK) and my editor all loved the outline for MR. MONK GETS EVEN… my 11th original MONK novel. So, next week, I have to start researching and writing. I…
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