Last night when I was busy working on my third lens for my Squidoo Summer Course it never occurred to me that it would be rewarded a purple star so quickly (or at all really). I woke up this morning and there was a message in my inbox that it was purplized. This is my [...]

It would be remiss of me not to mention short stories as an extremely relevant and vital literary fiction form. This is not to say that all short stories are literary fiction because short stories carry their own genres like books do.

It is 1922 in the American South when The Color Purple opens with two African American sisters, Nettie and Celie Harris (oldest) playing joyfully in a field of flowers. Fourteen year old Celie is pregnant for the second time by her father. When she gives birth her father takes it away.
My review for the [...]

Elaine, a long time BIWer member, shared a quote with the group today. Her accompanying explanation sums up the importance of never giving up on your writing goals. The goal obviously applies to so many things.
“If it weren’t for the last minute, a lot of things wouldn’t get done.”
That’s how writing – especially during [...]

When women first entered the profession of writing and publishing they did so under an alias because it was frowned upon to have women write, let alone be successful at it. Today if a woman chooses to use a pseudonym she does so for privacy or because she writes

Earlier this year I succumbed to peer pressure and bought the four books in the Twilight book series. Within a few weeks I had devoured them and now consider myself a convert. As far as I’m concerned Stephenie Meyers rocks.
When I was done I decided to make a Squidoo lens reviewing each book followed by [...]

The book is divided into three philosophies the first Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human), the second is Martin Heidegger (Being and Time) and it closes with Soren Kierkegaard, (Fear and Trembling). Susannah uses what she learns from each of these philosophers
My review for A Girl’s Guide to Modern European Philosophy was posted on 6/3/2009 [...]

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