WSJ « Nancy Drew Too

Does this manuscript make my butt look big?

A gets extra credit for directing me to this clunker in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal (and on the front page!): Goodbye, Girdle: Curvy Stars Spark A Raid on Padded Panties.

It turns out there’s a market segment willing to shell out big bucks to get big butts.

Seriously?

The article provides TMI about flat-bottomed women [Continue reading]

Self-publishing? e-book? huh?

If you’re like me — trying to polish a work you hope, some day, some how, hordes (or at least a respectable handful) of people will read in a finished form — you’ve given some thought to self-publishing, either on paper or digitally. Yes? No? Maybe?

I urge you to read this front page [Continue reading]

Squandering? Really?

Sue Shellenbarger wrote an interesting – to me, at least, and given the blog posts I’ve read lately about our creative endeavors, interesting to some of you on the same blog circuit as me – article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal: Lesson From Buffett On Following Dreams.

Seems that Warren Buffett, the richest man in [Continue reading]

Go Ahead, Make My Quote of the Day

Clint: A Retrospective is coming out next week.

Today’s Wall Street Journal provided the following Eastwood quote:

“When I was doing The Bridges of Madison County, I said to myself, ‘This romantic stuff is really tough. I can’t wait to get back to shooting and killing.’”

Gotta love him.

Now what, indeed!

Well, imitation is supposed to be the highest form of flattery, so here’s to Dayner. As I learned from reading her most recent post this morning, Dayner had already written a post titled ‘Now What?’ AND used the same picture I used in my post yesterday! Honest, Dayner, I wasn’t plagiarizing! I [Continue reading]

How to Write a Great Novel

Wow, the Wall Street Journal has been popping off some good stuff lately! You might be interested in reading How to Write a Great Novel in today’s issue. I was impressed by how many of the authors who shared their writing secrets seem to have everything (or a lot of it) planned out before [Continue reading]