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March 20, 2010
Is There a Place?
by Bob Grant
Is there a place where minds can meet?
Is there a place where thoughts can greet?
Is there a place where debate takes place?
Is there a place for all kinds of race?
Is there a place where discussions are real?
Is there a place for passions and zeal?
Is there a place for posts without [...]
March 15, 2010
To Self Pub, to POD, or to Not Self Pub or Not POD -..That is the Debate
My Guest Today is here for a DEBATE. PA Brown’s Bio is at the END of this blog.
The question we are taking up today has complicated answers. It involves writers deciding to self publish and/or working with a POD [...]
March 14, 2010
Setbacks can end forward progress on a writing project but it is not the mistakes and missteps that define us but how we react to them; overcoming the loss of 75 pages is the topic of the ongoing Cook a Book in a Year gauntlet I have thrown down at http://ning.it/aRjND4
Also the contest to NAME [...]
March 8, 2010
Hi—this is Steve Sangirardi, and I’ll try to be as terse as possible. When I retired from Clarke last year, I felt a guilty void that I converted into writing. Miraculously, I found a publisher for my novel, Monday Afternoon: Night Reading, located in the UK. Night Reading is featured on its website and has [...]
February 28, 2010
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February 28, 2010
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February 25, 2010
We first put our site on the Internet in December 2008 – since then we have had over 110,000 viewers visit our site. We extend an invitation to all writers to become contributors. If you are interested please reply to SpeakWithoutInterruption@gmail.com and let us know the type of writings you [...]
February 14, 2010
Happiness Key: Love yourself
by Kristen Houghton
http://www.andthenillbehappy.com/happinessblogandkeys.htm
It is an unfortunate fact that too many of us are taught as children that self-love is akin to
being selfish. It is not. Loving, nurturing, and nourishing yourself is practicing a healthy and
practical habit. It isn’t selfish at all; it enhances you as a person. In fact, independent studies
show [...]
February 14, 2010
Julia & Julia Type Journal for Cooking up a Gritty Suspense or Mystery Novel by Robert W. Walker
At Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, yes, you can follow me as I blog on the progress and success or failure of putting together my 50th novel. Without a contract, written on speculation only in my head [...]
February 11, 2010
Complete this sentence – If I did not have the freedom to write I would…………
We welcome your thoughts and comments.
February 4, 2010
Posted by Bob Grant - Editor in: Books, Creative Writing, Current Events, Fiction, Freelance Author, Journalism, Literature, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Publishing, Short Stories, The Writer's Corner
What is a Writer? Is is someone who has been trained as one or someone who believes they are one? Is is someone who uses big words and knows proper grammar or is it someone who writes the way they feel with spelling and grammatical errors? Is it someone who has published books, articles, and [...]
February 2, 2010
I have had both a personal, and business, relationship with China – and its people – since 2003. I have written articles – posted to our site – regarding China and have made it no secret regarding my extreme interest in having contributors, from China, post their articles to our site. I am excited that [...]
February 1, 2010
Below are the results – from Google Analytics – for our SWI site showing the Top 200 pages visited over the past 12 months:
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January 21, 2010
Uneducated clod, or missed opportunity?
Sitting in the hot muggy class room I was getting over last night’s wild dorm party, and wondering when I was going to see that girl again. Where did she say she lived?
Then the words, that have haunted me ever since, came out of an old and rumpled instructor’s mouth.
“In [...]
January 1, 2010
GREATEST SECRETS of Commercial Fiction Writers Revealed for Your Use By Robert W. Walker
GREATEST SECRETS are revealed in RED
Using a brief excerpt from chapter 3 of Children of Salem, I intend to point out key decisions a writer makes as he works. This blog is intended to instruct new writers and remind veterans how we [...]
December 18, 2009
Posted by Bob Grant - Editor in: Books, Creative Writing, Freelance Author, Journalism, Literature, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories, The Media, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner, Writing Essentials
Our Online Magazine was started in December 2008. Since then we have had visitors to our site that represent 165 countries. Although we have a few contributing writers – outside the U.S. – we “very much” want more. Many, many, many more! If you come to our site from outside the USA – and would like to become a contributor [...]
November 25, 2009
Stephen Sangirardi Pater’s Principle Bard715@aol.com
Not to discern every tick of the day:
some helpless twitch in a have-not’s eyes,
some corpulent stag demanding his say,
some cross-my-heart vow whose countenance lies
is sleeping before the light goes away.
Some wounded esteem applauding best brother,
some quivering lip resentful of beauty,
some wife’s drawn cheek, her man eyeing another
with that lustful gaze she [...]
November 23, 2009
Stephen Sangirardi
Bard715@aol.com
Cleansing Both Ways
They had just finished an intense session of love-making. His girlfriend, obviously dissatisfied, lit a cigarette; each exhalation of smoke was like a sigh. She wondered for not the first time if their intimacy was a gesture of love or merely a lustful burst which would have explained his hasty withdrawal. [...]
November 16, 2009
Stephen Sangirardi The Dream Bard715@aol.com
The other night I had a vivid and disturbing dream. I was the muezzin in a Moslem country, atop the tower of a minaret, giving notice to those below that it was time to worship. But I was ignored. I cried, I moaned, I bellowed, I cajoled, I practically executed [...]
November 14, 2009
Posted by npofahl in: Attitude, Biography & Memoir, Creative Writing, Entertainment, Family, Freelance Author, Humor, Inspiration & Motivation, Life Experiences, Non-Fiction, Personal Experiences, Short Stories, Social Aspects, The Writer's Corner, Women's Perspective
The Wide and Wacky World of Sports
Nancy Pofahl
I like sports. My whole family does, save my daughter. She’s the odd one.
When I was young, I loved to play tennis, volleyball, basketball or anything that involved guys crashing into girls. Especially [...]
November 14, 2009
For far too long now I have been profoundly exasperated by people saying that they will only publish their book if they can make big money on it.
“How do you write a bestseller? How much do you make? Some authors make a stack of money! Why else would you write? There must be a way!”
All [...]
November 3, 2009
Minette Coleman forwarded this to me because she felt writers need to see what other writers are doing, or how they take the job they have been given and turn it into a story.
Here’s a mystery for you. Why aren’t there more books where people with developmental disabilities are not villains? Not special. Just regular [...]
October 29, 2009
Waxing Philosophical: Life’s Beginnings, Endings & All of That Lies Between
by Robert W. Walker
The subject on my mind this day is what happens when we stop to think about the hard face of reality in questioning our birth, our beginning, our personal GO on the Monopoly board of life? Gawd but that is an awful [...]
October 21, 2009
Stephen Sangirardi Kosher
Bard715@aol.com
I make the sign-of-the-cross
In the teacher’s bathroom at Yeshiva,
Glancing at walls for coy surveillance;
Where if students see ‘Christmas’
Written on the page,
They must read it as ‘X’
Or hear banging on the wall,
And I am called to the Board to explain my lapse.
I wonder if G-D would fill a stocking
With coal
Should cantors lament with polyphonic [...]
October 14, 2009
Stephen Sangirardi
Bard715@aol.com
The three faces of Steve, or Eve
Do you think Chaucer was a great listener? The great writer must be an intense listener and observer. He listens, uses his empathy, and imagines what it must be like to be the person he is audience to—the wife who has lost her husband to another woman [...]
October 10, 2009
Chicken or Egg, Plot or Character – Which Comes First?
by Robert W. Walker w/help from 4 Pen Names
I am not a sick person or a schizophrenic; I simply have [...]
October 10, 2009
Intermingling of Romance and Mystery – an excerpt from Children of Salem
– by Robert W. Walker
I want to discuss the importance of making a mystery well-rounded by having a strong romantic thread running throughout, and conversely a well-rounded romance novel ought to have [...]
October 9, 2009
Stephen Sangirardi Bard715@aol.com
Classification and Louie
And yet another Thanksgiving has arrived. As usual, the many relatives congregate at my mother’s Long Island home. Like elements from a script, the sight and sounds of this holiday are unmistakable. My mother and aunts clamorously cook in the kitchen, making sure that the antipasto, ravioli, and turkey will [...]
October 8, 2009
Adoration questions concerning a somewhat Richard Cory:
Stephen Sangirardi Bard715@aolcom
If Christ were like us in everything save sin,
how was he made perfect through suffering
as we’re told in St. Paul’s edition?
And when he was scorned by swooned Nazarenes,
did he seem too bland for the Supreme Fiction?
What if Christ discovered his Divinity
in an act of sheer Columbus?
What if [...]
September 25, 2009
Minority Treatment in China, Part 3
by Lloyd Lofthouse If the minority king became powerful and caused unrest, the emperor proposed that this king marry the emperor’s real daughter, as if to say, “You will be a member of my family so stop what you are doing. Since we are soon to be related through marriage, there [...]
September 25, 2009
Stephen Sangirardi Strange Fits of Ben Bard715@aol.com
A Friday night in June was a wonderful thing, thought Ben Simon. He was leaning against the car in front of his corner house, waiting for his friend to arrive. Things could not have been better, now that college was over. He wasn’t even bothered by the mosquitoes [...]
September 25, 2009
Sarah and Rod–strange bedfellows of fame and fortune
by Bill Hazelgrove
Used to be you had to run for something or be in office. Not anymore. You can be considered viable and newsworthy and even political merely by keeping a media presence on the national radar screen. Rob and Sarah are strange bedfellows but they are queerly [...]
September 24, 2009
Stephen Sangirardi Wounded Healer Bard715@aol.com
At the time of the nation’s Civil crack,
Bill Percy was a medic for the North
who saw more blood than Macbeth’s hand could hold.
Torn flesh from pickets straddling the soul
made him dream of lakes reeking mephitis
and brooding barges of rigor mortis
that turned morning screams a welcomed show.
Few were as charitable in any [...]
September 24, 2009
Stephen Sangirardi Parousia Bard715@aol.com
Close your worn testament, and open the new.
The time has come to forget adoption
or being left by the wayside. Your father’s
no renegade, though often you swore
he regarded you a dirty tissue.
I think he heard you, when with hands akimbo
you screamed you gave the best trials of your life;
tenacity he finds irresistible,
and every [...]
September 23, 2009
Lesson 1: wordsmiths and writers
Of course, it’s none of my business, but in my mind, there are two very different types of scribbling words on a page; wordsmithing and writing. It’s just more names, or possibly titles, and humans often cross over from one to the other, leaping back and forth at will. Or, [...]
September 23, 2009
Stephen Sangirardi Roommates Bard715@aol.com
It’s rough when one roommate is getting laid
and the other isn’t. Doors slam, the sighing
gets louder, and how many times has she
been here this week…is asked in tundra
which can come by twitching, or the fluff
of frustration written across the roommate
who isn’t getting laid.
It’s worse when they’re
watching television. The you-know-who
is a freeloader [...]
September 22, 2009
Stephen Sangirardi Missing Bard715@aol.com
For the past ten years my wife’s been missing…
mysteriously she has disappeared
not like some thief who runs off with your things,
not like a starlet who craves a career.
Kidnapping, too, is out of the question
or the police would have been called by now.
But she might as well be held for ransom
for this is [...]
September 21, 2009
Join me join the fray–
Stephen Sangirardi Gethsemane Bard715@aol.com
He looked at his watch and wondered if they were really coming. For this moment he had absconded into the night three years ago, preferring the company of terebinths and cenobites to wife and child. Three years ago in Nazareth: her hands akimbo, barring the door, swearing [...]
September 19, 2009
China and Native Minority Treatment, Part Two
by Lloyd Lofthouse
Most of us have heard about Tibet and the demands by Tibetans in exile that Tibet be free from China to rule itself. We hear claims of recent brutal human rights violations taking place without much evidence to support the claims.
Meanwhile, in the United States, news [...]
September 18, 2009
Be careful what you wish for, O Inverse Proportion
Stephen Sangirardi Bard715@aol.com
When my friend Mike married Rose, he was a good-looking guy and she was, well, overweight, a fact Mike overlooked because Rose’s parents were very wealthy. So at first things went well: Mike worked as an electrician without breaking his back, Rose gave him [...]
September 18, 2009
The Compensator
Stephen Sangirardi Bard715@aol.com
Back in the early 90s, my cousin Dolores seemed to have the perfect life. She lived in affluent Massapequa with her 2.7 kids( 3, actually ), and her husband Tommy made scads of money at Merrill Lynch. Then, after 15 years of what she thought was an ideal marriage, Tommy dropped [...]
September 18, 2009
Recovery
Stephen Sangirardi Bard715@aol.com
He found himself in a dither of anxiety when he could not feel his wallet in his back pocket; positively cringed at the thought of his American Express card falling into the hands of some interloper. It was all the more reason for his nasty reply to his daughter in Applebee’s when [...]
September 18, 2009
As stated in SWI Roots http://www.speakwithoutinterruption.com/site/swi-roots/ I have no credentials or experience to have started our Speak Without Interruption Online Magazine. I just had an idea – and with the tremendous help of my Son-in-law plus the writers who took a chance on an unknown site – we are experiencing an ever increasing audience and [...]
September 17, 2009
Letter to Oedipus from his foster mother Merope
Stephen Sangirardi Bard715@aol.com
Dear Oedipus,
That greedy messenger just returned to Corinth with the news, the whole damn story. O Oedipus, I wish you wouldn’t have left here so quickly twenty years ago. I would have explained everything, about how you came here, the circumstances of your infancy, those [...]
September 17, 2009
The Acupuncturist and the Zen Rock Garden
Stephen Sangirardi— Bard715@aol.com
I insisted on a licensed Chinese acupuncturist and that’s exactly what I got right out of the Managed United Health Care Directory. Her waiting room featured Oriental motif, especially around the scrolled windows, and cool, sanitized air. New Age Music wafted about the room, and wouldn’t [...]
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Is There a Place?
Is There a Place?
by Bob Grant
Is there a place where minds can meet?
Is there a place where thoughts can greet?
Is there a place where debate takes place?
Is there a place for all kinds of race?
Is there a place where discussions are real?
Is there a place for passions and zeal?
Is there a place for posts without [...]