Random Ruminations Remotely Related to wRiting I ran on Monday night. Only the second time since the marathon on October 1st. My twin brother told me he was preparing for a half marathon in March and I told him I would prepare with him. It ends up that he will run one in Modesto with [...]
What Coffee has to do with it. By Jeff Hite I am a coffee drinker. While I don’t spend my time at Starbucks or any of the other coffee houses, I do enjoy a good cup of coffee. In fact, I have made it kind of a hobby of mine to figure out how to [...]
Random Ruminations Remotely Related to wRiting. ‘The Windup Girl’ I finished a book. It’s been a long time since I’ve read anything much longer than six thousand words. Audible makes it easy and I just listen while I work. Here’s my review of ‘The Windup Girl’ by Paolo Bacigalupi. I heard this novel mentioned several [...]
Traffic Circles By Philip (Norval Joe) Carroll I had two things I was going to choose from to write about this week, but tonight as I was driving home from the grocery store, I got hooked into a rant. I just can’t ignore a good rant. So you’ll have to wait until next week to [...]
In which you will read that you should write so others can read what you have written. There are whole schools of thought on the psychology of motivation. They talk about positive and negative reinforcement, stimulus and response. They debate the ideas of Pavlov, Maslow, Skinner, and other scholars of the bisyllabic variety of names. I’ve spent [...]
What Makes a Best Seller Philip (Norval Joe) Carroll I read a really good blog about what makes a “Best Seller”. Rather than research and write my own, go read it. It’s really interesting. Have fun. http://allonbooks-thekingdomofallon.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-makes-book-bestseller.html#comment-form