That sounds good.

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Random Stephen King quote from Danse Macabre for consideration:

I think that writers are made, not born or created out of dreams or childhood trauma-that becoming a writer (or a painter, actor, director, dancer, and so on) is a direct result of conscious will. Of course there has to be some talent involved, but talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force-a force so great that the knife is not really cutting at all but bludgeoning and breaking (and after two or three of these gargantuan swipes it may succeed in breaking itself . . . which may be what happened to such disparate writers as Ross Lockridge and Robert E. Howard). Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle. No writer, painter, or actor-no artist-is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty big ones; the name we give to the artist with the big knife is "genius"), and we hone with varying degrees of zeal and aptitude.

Putting it here because it seems the most appropriate, but much, much committee ~ma Typo!

Miss a few days, and miss the title game. Eh, what the hell.

Eco-Quality and Economic Inequality: A Dollars and Sensical Approach to Solving the Climate Crisis.

We need more writey games...

...and of course, much success-ma to Typo!

Found a link to a wonderful column from NYT, In Defense of Purple Prose

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I feel energized after reading it. Exuberance and joy doesn't show up often enough in the stuff I read.

wrod. not that I can concentrate enough to write lately anyway..I have lots of ideas but they're not The One, you know...it's easy to get called away from them.

Can anyone recommend a good non-fiction agent, ideally one who handle serious non-fiction. ("Serious" being a commercial label rather than an indication that other kinds of non-fiction aren't serious. So Allyson's first book was not considered "serious" non-fiction, even though she actually discussed very serious issues very intelligently, while "The Tao of Physics" which is pretty much pure bullshit is considered a classic of "serious non-fiction". So again I'm using "serious" because it is a standard marketing label, used to help bookstores shelve and market books, not as an assertion that a particular kind of non-fiction typically given that label is inherently more serious or of higher literary quality than many books that don't have it.)

Typo, have you done a search on AgentQuery.com? You can do an advanced search where you can narrow down parameters and then if you come up with some names and need opinions on them, I'll be more than happy to check either on Pub Marketplace to see what deals they've made or if I've heard anything about them.

One hundred words:

t vent

Voicemail from the local post office: “I'm sorry no one responded to your complaint sooner. I have spoken to your carrier, and in future packages will be delivered to the apartment complex office, as you indicated you preferred. I apologize for your inconvenience.”

Stop leaving packages leaning against my apartment door, where they can be seen and stolen. Stop folding and mutilating my mail. (I don't know what spindling is, but so far it hasn't been a problem.) And when I indicate my preferred response method is e-mail, don't call me on the phone!

t /vent