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All about Stephen Morrill's writing activities.
Here are some links:
TampaBayOnTheCheap.com - cheap things to do and see in my home area
WritersCollege.com - 60 course online writing school
StephenMorrill.com - my nonfiction writing
Sorcet.com - my fantasy novel series
BLOG.STEPHENMORRILL.COM
111101 Starting NaNoWriMo
Today (November 1) is the start of NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write a novel in 30 days. It need not be a novel
in the strictest sense; contestants have to write 50,000 words in 30 days to qualify for the prize at the end. the prize is...nothing.
I did this year before last and got to 50,083 on the final day. It was one of the most despicable manuscripts I have ever cranked out, and that's saying something. But it ...
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110920 If we're post-labor day, can autumn be far behind?
110920 You who live in the 'nawth' are already looking at new sweaters to wear and all that cool stuff. Here in Florida Labor Day happens pretty much in the middle of summer. Today is the 20th and it
is still hotter than a three-dollar pistol outside. I had one good evening last week when I could open the front door for a few hours. Two of our 'palmetto bugs' (giant cockroaches, really but we
call them something else to make the tourists happy) promptly scampered into the house. Spots, my four-footed assistant, got one and I got ...
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Not-So-Charming advertising?
How many blogs discuss toilet paper? Well, count on us to get the vital information and get it out to you as soon as possible.
Buying the all-essential TP is a problem for me. I live in a 90-year-old house with one bathroom and the TP dispenser is built into a tile wall. Apparently toilet paper rolls
have...swelled...since 1927, so much so that it's hard to find any that will fit. I have to pick through the assortment, of which there is no end. So to speak. ...
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WritersCollege.com upgrade completed
Tuesday, 24 May, 2011:
Finally! After months of off-and-on work on it, completed the major portion of an upgrade of my writing school web site. http://www.WritersCollege.com is about 200 pages in total, most not visible to the general public. That now conforms to the new HTML5 standard.
Next up is the http://www.Sorcet.com web site, for my fantasy novels. But that's a small site and should not take too long. After
that I get to upgrade my own writing web site, http://www.StephenMorrill.com which, like ...
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Redid my schedule
A favorite cult movie "Tremors" has Kevin Bacon saying, "We plan ahead. That way, we don't do anything right now." I admit to doing more planning some days than actual doing doing.
And the SteveMorrill.com web site is rather a case of The Shoemaker's Children - it gets no respect and is last to be updated. I'll get to it, but right now I', completing the huge overhaul of
WritersCollege.com WritersCollege.com
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Converting several more blogs into GoDaddy too
I have umpteen web sites and all but one are now hosted by GoDaddy. lately I have decided I need to do more social networking. You know-blogs. Like this one.
I pay for this blog, about $4 or $5 a month. I have an identical blog with Wordpress and that one is free. I have two more business blogs on Wordpress and another for a fellow writer whom I
support with technical things. So I waffled back and forth. Until yesterday. Yesterday the other writer posted a new blog entry. I saw it and ...
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Emailed vs. Snail Mailed Queries
A friend just sent me this quote from a literary agent:
<< MORE >>Before the arrival of e-mail submissions, I used to receive perhaps one hundred queries a week. That was a lot of queries but it wasn't frankly unmanageable. The agency now receives more than twice that on a daily basis and it's becoming ...
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Second entry
Set up this second blog to replace an earlier one I had neglected and then destroyed. Let's hope this fares better.
