February 2012
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3 tips for writers dealing with rejection →
amandaonwriting:
Three tips for coping with rejection:
Laugh at your rejections.
Learn from your rejections.
Always have a new project underway, something that will give you hope no matter how many rejections come your way for the previous project.
You may take some consolation in knowing the rejection history of these writers and works:
Dune by Frank Herbert – 13 rejections
Harry Potter...
new rural alberta advantage. cool video.
1. Work on one thing at a time until finished.
2. Start no more new books, add...
– Henry Miller’s “11 Commandments” (via ryanhatesthis)
January 2012
8 posts
Project Thirty-Three: Fever! (1966) →
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You're a Big Ticket Item Pontiac
you will be expected to write politically, your audience unaware that you write poetry, but don’t do it unless you’re offered a speech writer’s salary or annual income of cabinet ministers or policy analysts and it will be imagined that you deliver these poems with the fervor of 10,000 stampeding buffalo and the theatrics reminiscent of Pauline Johnson but don’t come across...
December 2011
10 posts
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody...
– Hocus Pocus (Kurt Vonnegut)
Project Thirty-Three: Themes From Great Films →
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Chris Farley as Bennett Brauer
November 2011
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Frans' Wetaskiwin Water Tower Write-up Westworld →
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October 2011
4 posts
New WONK Event in the WONK →
WONK has good news! Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst is coming to read in Wetaskiwin on October 26 at the Pipestone Food Co. Things will get rolling around 7:30.
Who: Jessica Hiemstra-van der…
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It’s easy enough to take stuff, and get excited about something if you are...
– Me in this week’s Wetaskiwin-Times Advertiser. I like it better when it’s out of context.
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Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter....
– Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (via synecdoche)
September 2011
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