Daily Archives: June 14, 2010

Clarion West Write-a-thon 2010

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Nancy Jane Moore is participating in the Clarion West Write-a-thon, a fundraising event in which people sponsor writers who “shadow” the six-week Clarion West workshop by doing their own writing projects. Nancy has promised to write 1,000 words of fiction … Continue reading →


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Writing Nowadays–Celebrity Who You Know

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Last week I mentioned my gratitude to all those awful celebrity novels.  You know the ones–self-indulgent pieces of garbage that only get published because the author is famous.  The most recent egregious example is forthcoming from Tyra Banks.  Even the … Continue reading →


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Can the Experts Be Wrong? Or, The Limits of Expertise

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In the last Horseblog I talked about how to tell if a writer or filmmaker had not done his horse homework. There are plenty of examples of this, and commenters provided their own lists of favorites. Much fun was had … Continue reading →


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