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Celebrity Gossip News Has Lost Its Luster for Me. I used to be the biggest hound for celebrity gossip news. I watched shows like TMZ and Extra on a regular basis, and I loved hearing the latest rumors about various celebrities. I started to realize a few years ago, however, that celebrities are human beings
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| (Published: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:40:45 +0000) |
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SOLD! Review of The Rich Jerk
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Traffnic.com Product ReviewsReview of The RichJerkWe're all looking for the same thing
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| (Published: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:04:06 -0500) |
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Write a Novel
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Wonder if you have what it takes to be a novelist
Most of us think, writing a novel, that's got to be hard work! Just look at the size of those things. Sure, I can write; I enjoy writing; I've written a ton of documentation for this or that; I've got down rhetoric, but a novel? I've read enough of them.
I know what they're about, that is, that they're stories, and, yes, I've got a few stories of my own, but writing a novel? What does it take, I mean, what are the difficulties? Where do you start? What do you need?
To begin with, if you don't feel the need to write, if there isn't something in yourself that isn't propelling you, that isn't urging you to write a novel, then don't. All good art proceeds from a deep need in the artist to express something just as deep, something that is full of feeling, yet undisclosed (that's what writing the novel will do, disclose feeling), something that is full of the world, full of its images, and full of the time, of its concerns and tensions, full of the moment in which you live.
If there isn't something inside you that doesn't cry out, Express me!, then don't write a novel. Writing a novel begins with the artistic urge, an urge that isn't for fame, or wealth - if you can get it - but for a resolution of a conflict between human desire and a world empty of what is desired, opposed to it, perhaps giving rise to the desire by its own character, by its essence of change. If you don't have a need to create something of beauty in the world, something that overcomes its madness and inanity, don't write a novel. Get a job.
Having the artistic urge isn't enough. Like every art, the novel requires a mastery of its technology. Words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, all arranged and ordered by, yes, the principles of style, but also by the feelings you have for the subject you wish to express.
You'll want to look into the rhetoric of fiction, the elements of the novelist's medium, viewpoint, plot, character, and the means by which a novelist creates meaning for those who will read. You'll want to have a sense of beauty, and of the sublime, but you'll also need to know something about man, about his mind, his body, his soul, for the novel is about man in relation to himself, to others, to the cosmos, to God.
A good novelist is not only a thinker, a philosopher, but also a feeler; not only a psychologist, but also a sociologist, an anthropologist; not only a natural scientist, but also, in some manner, a theologian; and yet the novelist is not any of these except as their revelations have conditioned the recognizable reality to which all good novels point. If you will write a novel, as well as being a writer, be a seer too.
Writing a novel that will be a work of art starts with you being an artist. Now you may begin.
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| (Published: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:00:08 -0700) |
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Newser
15 Celebs' Summer Jobs
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Even Tom Cruise had a newspaper route—in his pre-Hollywood days, of course. The Daily Beast uncovers the summer jobs of 15 celebrities: Amy Adams : The Enchanted star was, briefly, a Hooters girl after high school, but she says she “wasn’t cut out to be a Hooters waitress.” Brad Pitt
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| (Published: 2010-05-31T20:20:00) |
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Temptations singer Ali-Ollie Woodson dies at 58
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Ali-Ollie Woodson, who led the legendary Motown quintet The Temptations in the 1980s and '90s and helped restored them to their hit-making glory with songs including "Treat Her Like A Lady," has died, a friend said. He was 58.
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| (Published: Mon, 31 May 2010 17:13:43 GMT) |
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Iran and the Bomb
Iran and the Bomb
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
We have not seen the end of war, and never will. It seems that war is an inevitable part of human nature. If this is true than Eisenhower was correct that what America requires is that we have as strong a defense as possible at the least possible cost to the taxpayers.
The Republicans tend
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| (Published: Wed, 26 May 2010 17:15:05 +0000) |
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Discovery News
Where is Dark Matter Hiding?
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According to a highly sensitive particle detector, dark matter particles don't appear to exist. However, dark matter detection reports from another, less sensitive instrument suggests otherwise. What is going on?
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| (Published: Sun, 09 May 2010 05:45:30 EDT) |
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