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The Art of Writing Role Models
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Imagine reading the Bible, and the disciples were a dozen variations on Jesus. Bland? Flat? Boring? The irony of writing: authors always want to write role models for people, and yet if you do things too well and make your protagonists too good, the results always feel insipid. Where is…
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Link-N-Blogs: October 25, 2013
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“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”–John F. Kennedy 1) How to Write a Book in 30 Days NaNoWriMo is coming. Nina Amir gives us her advice on how to write a book in 30 days. For all you young authors out there, be sure to check it…
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Link-N-Blogs: October 18, 2014
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“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” –Abraham Lincoln 1) Oscar Hijuelos, Who Won Pulitzer for Tale of Cuban-American Life, Dies at 62 Rest in peace to Oscar Hijuelos who wrote “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.” The piece…
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The E-book Subscription Has Arrived
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It’s official. The last pillar keeping the e-book from taking over the universe has arrived in the form of a “Netflix-like” subscription, offered by Oyster. For $9.99 a month, you get unlimited access to a library of e-books. Now, it’s not like this particular service is going to take over…
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October Newsletter
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CLICK HERE to read the University Press of North Georgia’s Newsletter for October 2013. Want to receive our newsletter delivered right to your inbox? Sign up here!
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Alice Munro Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
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Short stories are not easy to write. The heartbeat of literary fiction—the character—takes time and space. The reader needs time to get to know fictitious characters because in many ways the reader is growing a friendship with them. Fifty thousand words is small for most. Now go on a 90%…
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Open-source History Textbook Can Save Students Money
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A new, open-source electronic history textbook published by the University Press of North Georgia with the University System of Georgia (USG) can save students nearly $100 each without sacrificing rich and fully sourced content. History in the Making: A History of the People of the United States of America to…
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The Facetious and the Facts
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How much is a non-fiction author allowed to make up and get away with it? How much “artistic license” should we tolerate with something ostensibly factual? Jonah Lehrer found out last year that he was over the line when put a few things Bob Dylan didn’t actually say in his…