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Every writer seems to develop some individual quirks and talents that are almost so strong as to almost be a super power in their craft. New writers, like me occasionally take some time developing their superpowers in the best way, at least that is my perspective. (And there are many perspectives on PERSPECTIVE)

My use of “perspective”, is apparently close to but not spot on with a PhD in English level use of the term. The word doctors seem to interchange perspective in literary circles with the term Point of View or POV.

Sometimes, I Can’t Help Myself.  This is one of those times; Jenn at Before I am Famous asks, “How do you write?” 

Hmmmm, with a computer, one word at a time, with my fingers, with my eyes closed, not well, with a muse and of course with immense pleasure.

See, couldn’t help it, I hope at least one of those responses made you smile.  The truth of how I write is inarguably much less pretty than I think it is for most other people.

I can’t wait to tell you about The AdSpace Contest I found!

The idea is simple and easy: Get as many entries as you can (very easy to do) over the next 30 days. The more entries you get, the better chance you have of winning! At the end of the 30 days, they announce the winner.

The prize?
A 125×125 pixel ad spot (above the fold) on at least TEN DIFFERENT BLOGS that will run for one month. That’s at least a $100 value!

There are lots of reasons to get stopped in your writing process.  Some are terrible, some are pretty good, and some are great reasons.  In my humble opinion, none of the reasons is good enough to keep a true writer down for more than a bit.  The amount of down time is directly correlated to the severity of the reason for stopping. 

(Blogging and the persons of otherwise good repute that seem to like PlotDog Press)

Now and again, I go back and re-evaluate my stories, my scripts and my reasons for all this writing.  For the last, oh say 10 years, the reasons have the pretty traditional.  Highest on the list was pretty much the same of most prose slingers; I write cause I have to. 

Most Bloggers love comments, I mean, without comments you might as well be a static website.  Unfortunately, bloggers have alot of things they need to do to promote their blog, and commenting takes the most time.  What if you could comment, link those comments to you, your blog, your other comments on other blogs AND [...]

So, what do you think?  Do you like the new look?  Yes, we stumbled into new digs (hoping for new Diggs AND Stumbles) but also hoping that it is much easier to take a stroll through PlotDog’s cyber house.  So, let me give you some back story, take you on a bit of a tour, and show you future plans and see what differences it all makes in our blog ranking and reader’s happiness with the blog.

Some days you ask a question, expecting it to never be answered and the next day, BAM the answer hits you right between the eyes.  I have (along with my occasionally smart mouthed and very smart webgoddess/ procrastinating editor) been working this blog for about 2.5 months.  I make it really about 2 months of [...]

We were honored to get this award from Jennifer M Scott at "Before I Am Famous".  Thank you Jennifer, we truly enjoy your blog and enjoy your support of PlotDog Press’ WOOF Contest.  Based on the rules of this award (see below) we are asked to pass it on to 5 of our favorite blogs.  [...]

I have been thinking a lot about being a writer and what “type” of writer I am lately.  What with the blog post on “It’s All Write to Blog” and working on my methods for writing and my bits of well intentioned suggestions on how to go about the craft, well, one’s mind does tend [...]

(How I get killer visualizations and shorter more cohesive story lines)
As you might have guessed (if you have read any of my other posts) I just ain’t normal. Ask my Mom, Ex-wife, Professors, and most anyone who knows me, I definitely do things differently. On the upside to that, I [...]

It’s dark out now, the sun is down, the house is quiet and I scope the hallway. I need to make sure everyone is settled. I close the drapes, turn on a favorite video, fire up the internet and shamefaced click into areas of the internet I never knew existed.
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The Battles We Face and Compromises We Make. I have been writing for a very long time; sometimes with more intensity than others, sometimes less. I have written non-fiction, Fiction, Screenplays, Short Stories, Legal Articles and more. Some have been printed, some sold, most ignored and some I remain hopeful on.
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*Start Copy Here* You do not have to be tagged to play along. This game is simple and so are the rules.
1. Copy from *Start Copy Here* through *End Copy Here*
2. Add your site(s) to the list. Just be sure to post the "Big Bang" at each site you add.
3. Tag or don’t [...]

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334-Work At Home Opportunities 335-VirusHead 336-Gracie de Guzman 337-Jollyjo 338-Jollyjo.tv 339-Ev Nucci’s THE CAREER STRATEGIST 340-Ev Nucci’s Resource Economics..Grease your brain 341-MARKETING MYSELF 342-NORTE 343-ACROSS THIS BRIDGE 344-STRUGGLING PARENTS 345-Read Between the Lines
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Big Bang List cont’d (again) 668-Shopping Fashion Style 669-Nonsense 670-Pinaywifespeaks 671-Pinaywifeatbp 672-Daily Tipper 673-I said what You Thought 674-Adventure Journey World 675-Candid Yammering 676-Prove Me Wrong
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Who but a writer could do this thing; talk about an art and craft as if he or she had any knowledge whatsoever about that most mercurial of things, the using the written word to express and emote; who but critics, who are, in a Satanist sort of manner, writers in and of themselves.  It [...]