Category Archives: Writing

James Patterson, Inc.

There’s a great article in the NY Times Magazine this week about James Patterson, the country’s biggest selling author.  I had seen his name in the bookstores, but holy cannoli, I had no idea how big Patterson was.  I think … Continue reading

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Art Without Po' verty

I saw this post by Roger Fan at YouOffendMeYouOffendMyFamily: acting without dying, happy while trying.  In his end-of-the-year blogpost, he says that if he could jump back in time, he would counsel his younger self to “BECOME A DENTIST YOU … Continue reading

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"Orange Days": Review and Ideas

I’m going to post this with the fore-knowledge that no one is going to watch it. Like I said in my last J-Drama post, I don’t expect anyone here to watch J-dramas unless that person has a prior interest in … Continue reading

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Kamisama Mou Sukoshi Dake

One of the issues in converting from blogger to novelist is getting out of oneself.  Blogging is all about writing from the blogger’s perspective, while novel writing (I think) deals a lot with understanding and becoming your characters.  When blogging, … Continue reading

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Futari (Japanese Drama) and the Need for Female Stories

I’m cutting back slightly on the posting frequency.  I think I’ve been pretty good at posting once or twice a day, and there are still tons of stories and thoughts I’d like to post, but I really do need to … Continue reading

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Show me the money

Saw this post by Phillip at offendmeyouoffendmyfamily.com.  I found it through TMM who found it through AAM, and now it’s here on BW (oh wow, I didn’t realize that my site has the same initials as my name.  Wow.)  In … Continue reading

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3 Steps to Novel Writing

(pic from here) Continuing our Strategy and Motivation series, Alpha-Asian has written about Overcoming Writer’s Block.  As you all know, Alpha is a successful writer for bodybuilding magazines, as well as a successful self-publisher of fitness books.  As an author, … Continue reading

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Some of the stuff I'm working on

As I mentioned in my last post about the Thymos book project, I finished my submission.  Actually, I finished my first submission.  I enjoyed writing it so much that I’m now working on a second submission.  My second submission is … Continue reading

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Ray Bradbury in action

88 years old and still fighting.  That’s how I hope to be. Ray Bradbury is fighting, speaking, and fundraising for public libraries in California.  The famous sci-fi writer is helping to save the libraries, which are suffering due to declining … Continue reading

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Writing Ethnicity

I saw this blog post from a gay White male author named Michael Thomas Ford on how it’s assumed that authors always write characters of their own race.  This goes back to a point we made a while back about … Continue reading

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