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- Jodie Luker
- Blairstown, NJ
- United States
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When to write a book?
"You should write a book about that"...a common in response to an experience shared with another...but should I? What makes a story so compelling that it needs to be authored and published?
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Apr 24 2013: Conratulations, Don.
I'm not sure I fully agree with "no tension and worry" in the process of writing, or any artistic process, especially visual, musical or a combination. If you think about Edvard Much, Frida, Kafka, Vonnegut - what led to the process itself was not worry-free. In some cases, it was suffering that brought about creation of masterpieces. It's individual, I guess.Apr 18 2013: Your mind and memories are a book, constantly adding more and more chapters. Putting it on paper or into words is the tricky part. Even if you write for just a little bit each day, when you wake up, before going to bed, maybe on your lunch break, you will end up compilling your book. You can write about anything, your own experiences, your own thoughts, might even make up your own stories. Who knows you may even end up coming to enjoy it and find it relaxing. When should you write a book, whenever you want!
Apr 21 2013: Or write:
- a book of poems
- a diary
- a blog
- a script
- a whatever that gives you the feeling that you're creating :)
Frank Barry
Apr 23 2013: Anna, The feeling is the reward.
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Many times I have spent 3 or 4 hours writing,
concentrating, searching for data to include,
and then, ... a knock upon my door.
I am dead in the water. I hit delete.Apr 23 2013: To Frank Barry, the Living Book
Thanks for your reply -
"Anna, The feeling is the reward.
Many times I have spent 3 or 4 hours writing,
concentrating, searching for data to include,
and then, ... a knock upon my door.
I am dead in the water. I hit delete. "
Think that you did not hit delete, that the text evaporated because you changed the platform and you didn't care to learn the new Ctrl-Z, or that you spilled ink on the sheet of paper you've been working on for hours and there is no known technology to get it all back... In such a case a knock on your door may be a blessing... But you may just want to bang your head against it, may also work, who knows...
But since you used the word delete, here's one I still have, with the word in it. I got a thought on how inaccurate the distinction between a Cat Person and a Dog Person is, so I wrote the following:
Cat People
They pur, they palliate, the pursue
They pun, they poke, they presume
They play with their prey as they preach
Dog People
They dive, they dig, they delete
The drown as they save. No deceit.
Trained by the demons they meet.
On a weird reversal
I'm a bunny person.
I blow and break bubbles
When their bloated pig muzzles
Tell me
That all they need are cuddles.
I know you should probably revise the first draft of the craft, that this made only me feel jolly by a veiled foolish folly and that this is, well, useless in its contemporary cuteness...
But whenever you hear of a wrongdoer near say - "Feed him to the bunnies."
Thanks Frank, Emily Dickinson bless you :)
Apr 23 2013: Anna, very nicely done.
a few minutes ago...
My son's cat, an ugly orange male, walked past me at the mail box.
He continued to the sidewalk bordering the street.
He sat and howled a few times, was quiet and howled again.
About a week ago his brother cat was run over while playing in the same street at about the same place.
My neighbor remarked, "I think he is mourning his sibling."
From this penetrating remark, a poem, a story, a masterpiece, all
could be accomplished. One has but to start.Apr 22 2013: Once we erase the need to take any thing that could be done and we do it not for the need to support ourselves via some silly currency that is needed to buy things that every other being needs to live, then maybe we can focus on doing things because we actually feel it is needed or we just wanted to because we love it.
Then when you want to write a book, you'll actually want to write the book, and you'll be more passionate to that very question...
Apr 23 2013: Michael, you are so right.
Professional writers are a work-ethic bunch.
They are trying to leave their mark on society,
all while using their talents to make a buck
There is nothing wrong with that.
We all enjoy reading both fiction and non-fiction.
I read a book "every day", and have since childhood.
With my "Kindle" within reach, I have a 1,000 books
to read 24/7/365. This current batch, stands at 678 read.
More than half-way through my latest, Wicked Prey #19
by John Sanford. One of those Lucus Davenport novels.
I may be wasting my time. But it is my time.Apr 20 2013: I am just finishing my first book. You should write a book because you have something to say and because of who you will become in the process.Apr 19 2013: You should write a book when the book would come exploding out of your brain and shatter your thinking if you kept it all bottled up. You write a book when you just can't help it.
Or, you can get yourself "in the flow" and let the muses of inspiration work their magic through you as you record your book.
But if you have to sit down in front of a keyboard, paper, or recorder and create something, that is probably the worst time to write a book.
Apr 23 2013: Danger, I agree.
I never liked to create a project I couldn't control
before I started.Apr 17 2013: Jodie, I have a interest in the local history. I have conducted the research and have set the frame work and even started the manuscript.
The question now is why. Certainly not for money as it really only involves the local area and a few miles in any direction. No market there. It is certainly a lot of work ... I have listened to stories ... read articles ... and beat the bushes.
In the end ... it is something I had on what is now called my "bucket list". I have published articles and technical research but this is different. Being very honest ... it is a ego trip. Something to prove to those in my family I was here and did something worthwhile.
So far this has been fun ... it is a labor of love. But no doubt about it .... its work.
In the end we do it because we want to do it ... and hope that others like it.
I wish you well. Bob.
Apr 17 2013: I like many others am looking onto my ancestry, and finding stories and not just names and dates is what makes it interest. So on behalf of us current and future ancestry finders, I think you and your fellow local historians.
I was thinking that there needs to be a web site for finding books on local history, and did a search and came across this group. http://www.alhn.org/ some states have links local history books, I thought you may be interested.Apr 24 2013: When one knows that one has something substantial to tell others and the capacity to do it.
Jim Ryan
Apr 21 2013: Only stories that the gov and multinational corporations don't want to hear are the ones worth telling. The problem is, they won't allow it to be published and neither will the fully corrupt Courts.
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Jeff Hess
Apr 20 2013: Good afternoon all,
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Many wish to have written, few possess the stamina to write.
Expanding even a 1,000-word tale into a 100,000 book is difficult, grueling work.
Do all you can to make today a good day,
Frank Barry
Apr 21 2013: Jeff, thank you for your understanding.
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Writing need not be difficult. Just write what you feel.
The spelling is not important as you write. Just write.
Words will come, just think and type. Unless you have
a voice machine to aid you.
I tell stories when I write. I take small experiences and
tell it like it is. It brings me a satisfaction.
But, remember, like everything else, you must first start.
Jeff Hess
Apr 22 2013: Good morning Frank,
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That's true, you're absolutely right.
Years ago I adapted the following from a piece written by one of my favorite writers, Walter Mosley, and made it my daily, morning liturgy:
"I am a writer. I write every day. The consistency, the monotony, the certainty, all vagaries and passions are covered by this daily reoccurrence.
A writer does not go to a well once but daily. I don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning. Sleep comes to me each day, and so does my muse.
Kaliope comes softly and quietly, behind my left ear or in a corner of the next room. Her words are whispers, her ideas shifting renditions of possibilities that have not been resolved, though they have occurred and reoccurred a thousand times in my mind. She is a collection of memories not exactly my own.
These reminiscences surface in dreams or out of abstract notions brought on by tastes and excitations, failures and hopes that I experience continually. These ideas have no physical form. They are smoky concepts liable to disappear at the slightest disturbance. An alarm clock or a ringing telephone will dispel a new character; answering the call will erase a chapter from the world. My most precious ability, the knack of creation, is also my most fleeting resource. What might be fades in the world of necessity.
How can I create when I have to go to work, cook my dinner, remember what I did wrong to the people who have stopped calling? And even if I do find a moment here and there – a weekend away in the mountains, say – how can I say everything I need to say before the world comes crashing back with all of its sirens and shouts and television shows?
''I know I have a novel in me,'' I often hear people say. ''But how can I get it out?''
The answer is, always is, every day.
The dream of the writer, of any artist, is a fickle and amorphous thing. One evening I'm remembering a homeless (continued on next comment)...
Frank Barry
Apr 23 2013: Jeff, imagination is everything.
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You've got it all.
Myself, I tell stories.
Truths that may be embellished a bit.
Stilted somewhat.
No time at this moment to share.
Later perhaps.
Stick with your imagination.
I will add this query...
Have you noticed when sleeping;
on one side, analytical,
the other side emotional?Apr 22 2013: (continued from previous comment)... "man, dressed in clothes that smelled like cheese rinds, whom I once stood next to on a street corner in New York. My memory becomes a reverie, and in this daydream I ask him where he's from. With a thick accent he tells me that he was born in Hungary, that he was a freedom fighter, but that now, here in America, his freedom has deteriorated into the poverty of the streets. I write down a few sentences in my journal and sigh. This exhalation is not exhaustion but anticipation at the prospect of a wonderful tale exposing a notion that I still only partly understand.
A day goes by. Another passes. At the end of the next week I find myself in the same chair, at the same hour when I wrote about the homeless man previously. I open the journal to see what I'd written. I remember everything perfectly, but the life has somehow drained out of it. The words have no art to them; I no longer remember the smell. The idea seems weak, it has dissipated, like smoke.
This is the first important lesson that the writer must learn. Writing a novel is gathering smoke.
Writing is an excursion into the ether of ideas. There's no time to waste. I must work with that idea as well as I can, jotting down notes and dialogue. The first day the dream I gathered will linger, but it won't last long. The next day I have to return to tend to my flimsy vapors. I have to brush them, reshape them, breathe into them and gather more.
I have to begin each day with my work because creation, like life, is always slipping away from me. I must write every day. One day I might read over what I've done and think about it. I pick up the pencil or turn on the computer, but no new words come. That's fine. Sometimes I can't go further. Correct a misspelling, reread a perplexing paragraph, and then let it go. I have re-entered the dream of the work, and that's enough to keep the story alive for another twenty-four hours. The next day I might write for hours; (continued)...Apr 22 2013: : (continued) "there's no way to tell. All I need to do is to keep my heart and mind open to the work.
Nothing I create is art at first. It's simply a collection of notions that may never be understood. Returning every day thickens the atmosphere. Images appear. Connections are made. But even these clearer notions will fade if I stay away more than a day.
Reality fights against my dreams, it tries to deny creation and change. The world wants me to be someone known, someone with solid ideas, not blowing smoke. Given a day, reality will begin to scatter my notions; given two days, it will drive them off.
The act of writing is a kind of guerrilla warfare; there is no vacation, no leave, no relief. In actuality there is very little chance of victory.
I am, I fear, like that homeless man, likely to be defeated by my fondest dreams.
Then the next day comes, and the words, and Kaliope, are waiting. I pick up where I left off, in the cool and shifting mists of morning."
Adapted from "For Authors, Fragile Ideas Need Loving Every Day"
by Walter Mosley, 3 July 2000.
nikki fisher
Apr 18 2013: A compelling story is when you write about your own experiences and you know it will resonate with the readers and they can identify themselves or others within it.
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Apr 23 2013: nikki, You are right as rain.
I handicap horse races at the local "watch and wager".
Eventually someone will pass by me, say, "Hello Frank",.
and the equations I am working with inside my head
seem to fall to the floor like a house of cards destroyed.Apr 18 2013: Every book has it's reader. The main thing is the quantity of readers who choose to read this or that book. The same experiences, interests, problems of people may determine the popularization of particular book or author in particular period of life.
adesh saxena
Apr 18 2013: When you are bubbling with ideas and no one seems to listen? Its a good way to test your ideas first hand.
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Clyde Durnen
Apr 18 2013: When the words of a story express an emotion that the reader can feel,then the reader becomes part of that experience.A great writer can paint a very vivid mental picture of people places and things and bring life even to the most mundane subjects.Apr 17 2013: When you feel the urge to...
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Fritzie -
Apr 16 2013: If you are interested in writing a book, you might be interested in Amy Tan's TED talk to understand her process. The best blogger, in my opinion, who advises aspiring writers is Steven Pressfield, author of War of Art, Do the Work, Turning Pro, and lots of historical novels.
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Ann Lammott and Ann Dillard are novelists with good books on the subject as well that convey their experience..
Jodie Luker
Apr 16 2013: I thank you for your responses and In following youe suggestion I came upon a quote from Anne Lamott: "books help us understand who we are and how we behave...they show us how to live and die."
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I suppose if a story told can do this, it may be time to start to write.Apr 23 2013: High gang --
I've had numerous "thumbs up" responses from some really good writers.
and I was thinking before I cranked up my computer.
Why is there no "Department of Prevention" in our Governments ???
If anyone out there thinks this would be a great topic to expand upon,
please, please, take the time to answer me, or give me a "thumbs up".
If you feel we are all without hope in this area. Speak up.
Show your writing skills.
Thank you all.
Apr 24 2013: I think that would be a great topic to expand on indeed. In altruistic theory, that seems that it would be a needed department. But, how would it fit into the economic scheme of things? Money wise, politically wise, etc.
Apr 24 2013: Sarah, thank you.
The precondition of a civilized society is the barring of physical force from social relationships—thus establishing the principle that if men wish to deal with one another, they may do so only by means of reason: by discussion, persuasion and voluntary, uncoerced agreement. -- Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand is usually not the spokesperson one would use in this instance, but she has a point here.
After watching most of the 20th century and now 13% of the 21st, I am sickened of War, and the continuous nuclear threatening.
A more sound action by Governments would take away any threat of War as the means of reaching agreement.
On a more basic level -- Women do not enjoy getting beat by their husbands and have taken actions to change laws that help to stop the violence. Seems appropriate to this discussion.
Economic scheme? Money wise? Politically wise?
Losing economically, money wise, and politically wise is not something to fight a War about, or to be used as excuses for killing and maiming men, women, and wee children.
I pray dear lady that you can agree.Apr 24 2013: Many governments do have "Department of Prevention" they just go by other names.
Many countries have freedom of the press, but those you don't do have a "Department of free speech Prevention". And the same goes for all other freedoms, education, travel, religion, etc. and of course freedom from slavery and imprisonment.
The question should be how can we convince all governments freedom is better for them, then prevention.
Apr 24 2013: Don, thank you.
I strongly believe
ALL Governments should give up War.
Perhaps we should consider Restricting Government Actions.
I we can. And today that is doubtful. As long as they have control of 100% of the media 24/7/365 from election to election.
We stopped the "Draft".
But Washington DC just keeps on "Making Wars".
They always have a new excuse.
"They Blame Someone for Doing Something Really Bad."
They calling another Government head Bad Names.
Then Make War on poor Nations who cannot fight effectively.
We citizens buy this perfumed garbage and cheer our sons and daughters as they go forth to kill and maim and to be killed and maimed.
The word "hero" is today a label added to a casket.
But has anyone noted -- That the media, no longer show the returned "Hero's" or their caskets, on the nightly news.
We have all become callused.
The United Nations was created to stop this kind of thing.
But it quickly became controlled by the Bully Boys, with the Biggest Bombs.
I have to stop now. I quickly get out of control.
.Apr 25 2013: But there are departments of prevention in all governments, they're just preventing different phenomena. Sometimes sickness, sometimes health of threatening nations, sometimes war, sometimes peace among potentially strong, rich and influential nations. Depending on the situation. But in general what they are trying to prevent is what they, for different reasons, perceive as threatening to their own power, power of their allies or the power of those who got them where they are. It may be for the greater good but... is it? Time will show. Or not. Luckily, there are U.N. Charters.
Why not starting a new debate about this here on TED, Frank?
Apr 25 2013: Anna, thank you dear..
I just did start a new debate with a query.
It is my first one, and I probably made a mistake or two
getting started. Oh, well, we can only try.
Government Officials unfortunately are peopled by men and women who think they have been given a right to subject lesser peoples to their will. In America, we citizens regard this as folly, on the part of the Government "employee". But it actually isn't folly at all. It exists. And as such deprives all of us of freedoms.
Not all government employees think this way. And most all of them are honest and forthright and helpful and considerate.
Just as long as we let them take their coffee break on time and don't mind standing there and being ignored while they do so.
But when we look upon the Elected Officials, things change.
We're suddenly aware that we've created a monster. Arrrugh!!
I had better stop here. I am getting out of control.Apr 23 2013: Jeff, a bit more...
I was schooled in Vermont, St. Albans...
and became the Poet Laureate of our student body.
Upon graduation day, I was given the task of writing,
and telling my poem. It happened like this...
We foolish boys got a bit drunk the night before.
"Dime Beers" and Dago Red Wine.
Next morning, Graduation day, and still tipsy...
At 5 minutes to show time,
I slipped into the Janitor's mop-closet,
and wrote my poem.
Reading from the lectern
to the graduates assembled below,
I read -- "Green Grows the Ivy"
The girls all cried, every one of them.
Must have been the Beer...
Don Anderson
Apr 22 2013: The other day I heard an ad for audiobooks and it has me wondering; with day's voice-to-text technology if it would be better to start with verbally telling the story instead of writing/typing/printing it.
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Is there any reason we should not revert back to using the oral story/history telling?
Apr 23 2013: Don,
you've easily won the HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD award.
Be proud, you deserve it.Apr 24 2013: Don,
I'm waiting for thought-to-text technology ;-)
But oral storytelling never disappeared, just changed gear and place.Apr 22 2013: When u feel it, just do it :) then just keep doing it, and one day you will have your own book :)Apr 21 2013: Write daily. Every day. No matter the time.
Going back to edit after 3 or 4 days, or a couple of weeks.
Re-write to say it all a different way.
Criticize - Our government for it's folly. I enjoy doing so.
Publish on the internet. Daily.
If you must have an audience, research where you can get one.
Otherwise, forget your ego and just tell it like it is.
Jim Ryan
Apr 24 2013: What of Ted and its censorship? What of all the websites and their censorship? Why does Ted censor what it cannot refute and why does it take it from view?
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Jim Ryan
Look to the space junk that NASA wants to possibly incinerate in space. It must be tin a high orbit not to fall back to earth. That suggests that gravity is keeping it there. There are two forces in gravity, one is attraction and one is repulsion. I will explain. The planets must sit in the suns high orbits, considering their mass, keeping them from falling into the sun, just as the space junk does not fall back to earth from its high orbit around the earth.
Ted keeps taking it off the board. Can any of you refute the above? Ted can't.
Apr 24 2013: Jim, I am going to make a guess here.
It is only my opinion. Thank you for bringing this up.
The Moderator has nailed me a few times too.
I get out of control. I love to be too involved. haha
In my opinion TED has an obligation of sorts to keep responses kind of "on point".
While your reply is important, It might not be "on point".
"When to write a book" is the "point".
The moderator at TED, keeping out the bad language, and other things like spam and such, may just be a bit too critical in your case. Hey!, or not.
So, write about something to do with "writing about something", and you might not have a problem.
In the 1970's I built TVRO systems and captured signals from satellites. Ours were set in place about 23,500 miles above the earth. The USSR's sputnik, was in a completely different type of orbit. Eventually most of those fell to earth and some burned up before landing. SAT-COM1 may still be up there, I don't know.
We sure got a lot of TV entertainment off it. It was one of the satellites that helped start the Cable TV businesses.
We all enjoyed the beginning of Cable TV, because we got it free. Until the night of the Ali-Liston fight. They scrambled the satellite signal as the bell rang for the first round. We had popcorn and beer, and had just settled into our chairs to watch. I was shocked into action. I thought, how can we get another satellite that would have a clear signal. The answer, economics. The Canadian's satellite didn't have enough money to pay for scrambling. So we cranked the dish and got the signal and ate our popcorn and drank our beer. Oh! I forgot. Ali won the fight.
Jim Ryan
Apr 24 2013: I was responding to what you said about the gov's folly, only I aimed mine at Ted. I'm pretty sure many things are said on each thread that don't perfectly align, especially if someone else shifts the needle first,-- so to speak, but I do understand your point. I liked your story, hope your having a lucky week.
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By the way Frank, everything and everyone are dependent on everything and everyone else. IE; no one can make a pencil or a gallon of gas all by themselves.Apr 21 2013: What makes a story so compelling that it needs to be authored and published?
When I can share experiences from my life which will help others in understanding themselves as well as this mystery called 'life' better.
Julia Rivera
Apr 21 2013: Use of language and style. Know your audience, and the audience you want.
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I've attended tons of the international writers workshops and they all reach down to the core of what I mentioned above, along with other fluffy stuff.
Readers can sense your passion in-between the lines. If this is what you love doing then shoot for the stars, second doubting yourself becomes irrelevant so remove the "should I?" and practice your writing techniques.
Julia R.Apr 20 2013: When the inspiration comes. I think we only have really good ideas to write a book when we have an inspiration. Every person could write a book, if he'll really want to do that.
Apr 21 2013: Kamila, Why wait..?
Just start writing.
Inspiration may not be recognized for what it is
at a time when you are not prepared to write..
And inspiration can fade or morph into something else.
Just start writing.
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Apr 23 2013: Don, Inspiration that is growing need to be fed.
Feed it.
If you cannot decide upon a topic,
take a page from a newspaper, tear it up,
toss the pieces into the air, and grab just one.
Make that your topic to start with.
You can change later.
Start. . .Apr 20 2013: My favorite reads are from authors that have a unique perspective that is honed from experiences that are different from my own. What is 'novel' about your potential novel? what is the passion behind it? I'm sure it depends quite a bit on what type of book you want to write but if you can make people think, question, or draw them into a world different from typical experience then you already have a compelling start. Also, many great authors do not know where their story is going or what the primary point of it will be, so don't over concern yourself with that until you have a first, second or 15th draft done. Happy writing.Apr 20 2013: "You should write a book about that"...a common in response to an experience shared with another...but should I?
Seriously if you have to ask the question then the answer is no.
If only because it requires dedication, a insane about of belief, and a will of steel to get to that last of 300 pages.
As to "what makes it compelling", one answer you might find - is the same.
Apr 23 2013: Tify, 300 pages Wow.
That would make 30 to 60 books for me to write.
The short story is my favorite.
And it doesn't tire the reader.
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Apr 17 2013: Now. Jodie. Start today. Write every day.....Its a journey....of unknown duration.....enjoy the long process....you will emerge as a whole new you.....I can't wait to read your book❤I wish you every success.
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Don Anderson
Apr 16 2013: Jodie, I understand your dilemma.
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I never had any interest in writing a book and still don't, but events in my life have trusted the need upon me or have they?
With aging parents I took it upon myself to do my ancestry and part time over the past year I have found more info then I thought I would. Currently it has a cast of over 450 characters (not counting currently living relatives) many with stories worth investigating.
I have concluded that doing a normal family tree will just not do, and my relatives and no interest in helping me do the research. BUT they want it in story format, and with so many stories they a saying "You should write a book about that". So like you I'm also trying to decide if I want to invest a large amount of my time into it or not.
First question I have is; will you enjoy and/or benefit from the journey, of writing a book?
Many people benefit from putting their thoughts down on paper, it can be therapeutic.
Question two; is a book the best format? In today's world there are many options for telling stories, books, group of short stories, interactive books, comics, games, blogs, web sites, and I'm sure others.
And part of question two is; are you seeking to entertain or benefit the reader?
Personally I was DX 10 years ago with an immune disorder and as a result I have been on a grand spiritual journey, but sadly others with it are stuck in Why-Me and can't benefit from what I have learned. Maybe it's them; maybe it's me or just not part of our grand journey of life.
I hope you find some words of wisdom in my ramblings. ;)
Jodie Luker
Apr 16 2013: It is a true investment in time and I am unsure whether this will be therapeutic for me. It could possibly be helpful to others. I think I would stop if it became too heavy an experience for me. Probably short stories would be the best format although I do like the comics idea.
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I enjoyed your words of wisdom!
Apr 23 2013: Jodie,
Short stories are fun to write.
The shorter, the better.
My Grandma used to take an oleander bush branch and
strip the leafs off. When we kids were bad, she would
switch us on the backs of our legs, between our knee and
ankle. It stung, we cried, and it worked wonders.Apr 16 2013: You write the book when YOU need to write the book. When you have something you need to articulate and share. One of my favorite sayings about writing is that you have to be careful not to take the lid off of the pot too soon. Letting a story heat up, mull and start to bubble over can be very rewarding. When it comes to writing about an experience you lived through, I say: take notes as you go along and write the book when you have the most interesting "angle on the experience" (to borrow a phrase from Louise Gluck).
Apr 16 2013: I have no real experience in writing for anyone but myself so I do appreciate your advice that an interesting angle on the experience is necessary to both write the book and engage the reader.Apr 16 2013: I especially like the emphasis you placed on writing when YOU need to write the book.
Apr 16 2013: NOW.....just start......
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Apr 16 2013: Thank you for your suggestion to extend the time on this question and your response!
Please explain why you wrote your books and novellas. Was this a requirement during your time in the University or was this a desire of yours?
erica zhao
Apr 17 2013: When I wrote my first shot novel is stimulated by the Internet Writer 's success .The fans they had . How pride they are .And I think this is the commen reason of todays Youth Writers appear .
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But as time go by , the powerful direct stimulation is about a movie or an kind of intense motion which not just satisfy shelved in inner .
More like a desire to find a goal , a hint from our brain ,the positive character of our own tell our to achieve ourself to break the security we hold to build a new me .
But most of the time the reality usually " kick our head " , telling me the lack of reason involved available time,
the professional knowledge we should master , the situation of finance .
In China the period over the university is the relatively light time comparing with the first off twelve years we undergoed.
leastly we can verily make our own obtion , choosing to learn what we interested .
Ivone Vale
Apr 16 2013: When u feel it, just do it :) then just keep doing it, and one day you will have your own book :)
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Apr 16 2013: So far I have tossed out every piece of writing because I was simply therapeutic. As I start again Ill not throw out the previous work!
Fritzie -
Apr 15 2013: If you feel the story is compelling, you would enjoy writing the book, and you have the time to do so, why not? What do you have to lose?
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Would you find the project worthwhile only if it met a threshold of "needs to be authored and published?"
Some stories emerge in writing because the author feels a need to tell the story, in part to work out her ideas. Other stories emerge because the author thinks someone should read the story.
If the story is a memoir, those you love will be more interested than strangers will, unless you have led an extremely unusual life. But those you love may treasure it.Apr 27 2013: love love love love love love for people and god
writing from the heartApr 26 2013: Written.
Waiting for me to stop focusing on poetry and bring the novels out of the closet.
Or maybe it's the book I haven't yet written that you are asking about? Ah, the memoir...the one I want so badly to write but fear no one will want to read it.
Great question.Apr 25 2013: Writing, overcome by strong feelings about a topic can be frustrating.
Finding the words becomes embarrassingly tough.
Here is an example of writing to a newspaper when overcome.
WAR again?
Has our Government lost it's mind again?
Does the Media still insist on Backing the Hawks of War?
Have we as a People, forgotten our compassion for peace?
Has America become such that
the prisoners at GITMO
Riot in Despair?
Are we LOST?
Expressing wonderment seems to work the best when in the moment.
Looking back when applying an edit, may not show the same intensity.
Am I making sense?Apr 25 2013: To Don Wesley, Thank you Don.
You've mentioned looking at my profile twice now, maybe I need refresh it.
Writing about and studying Plate Tectonics threw me a curve into something else a couple of years ago. I found a poster with a GOCE photograph of the Earth.
GOCE's prime purpose is to map very subtle differences in the pull of gravity across the surface of the Earth caused by the uneven distribution of mass within the planet.
GOCE is a subject that hasn't had a lot of "press" yet. They are about 3 years into a 5 or 10 year unique study of the earth through the lens of a very low satellite camera. A lot of money has gone into this study.
I enlarged the poster photograph 10 times or so for my poor eyes to see. And then, to my ultimate surprise, I found something that just could not be explained. In the area of Chili, on the poster.
To identify which picture. it was labeled "Poster" and was of the earth in colors of bright red and blue. It was -- Well..., look and find it. You will be happy when you do.


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Ben Bernanke's announcement Thursday that the Fed would keep easing money sent the stock market soaring, but more important was his declaration that there is only so much the Federal Reserve can do.
The Fed's latest move, approved by the policy-setting Open Market Committee, will buy a total of $85 billion in bonds every month, including $40 billion per month of mortgage-backed securities. This pumps vast sums into the economy. It is the equivalent of printing money. Bernanke's hope is to drive down interest rates generally, especially on home mortgages.
The Fed will also extend its policy further into the future and keep interest rates close to zero through 2015. But as Bernanke himself put it, monetary policy alone can't fix what's broken. The more important tool in a severely depressed economy is fiscal policy. And here is where Bernanke is truly playing against type.
The usual script calls for a Fed chair to demand fiscal tightening in exchange for liberal interest-rate policy. It's what Alan Greenspan did in his 1993 deal with Bill Clinton. But Bernanke refuses to play that role. At a high-profile speech at the Fed's Jackson Hole conference August 31, the Fed chair warned against too much fiscal tightening. He has refused to be the instrument of the party of deficit hawks.
Bernanke has also irritated conservatives by calling for the Obama administration and Congress to do more to fix the mortgage mess. Very low interest-rate mortgages are great for those who can get them. But the tens of millions of American homeowners whose houses are worth less than the current mortgages on them can't qualify. A proliferation of small-bore programs that are voluntary to bankers, such as HAMP and HARP, has made only a small dent in the problem because serious reduction of principal owed is mostly unavailable.
In dealing with the crisis, Bernanke is a very different sort of central banker than his European counterpart, Mario Draghi. Last week, Draghi also cheered financial markets by declaring that the European Central Bank would buy unlimited quantities of government bonds, as necessary, to prevent a collapse of the euro. But he then completely undercut the benefits of that policy by insisting that any nation participating in such bond purchases must submit to an austerity program.
Draghi is nominally independent, but in practice he can only go as far as Germany's Iron Chancellor, Angela Merkel permits. Bernanke, by contrast, is genuinely independent and reports only to the Open Market Committee, which backed his latest decision by a vote of 11 to 1.
The deficit hawks have tried to enlist Bernanke, but he isn't playing and there is no counterpart of Chancellor Merkel to demand fiscal quid pro quos. The latest caper of Pete Peterson, Erskine Bowles, and company is a $50 million to $100 million corporate-funded campaign led by JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon and 100 corporate CEOs pressuring for a grand bargain to cut the deficit.
There is no such high-powered committee lobbying for more government spending, which is what the economy needs. Bernanke can hint at that with metaphors like the "fiscal cliff" but won't quite say it. Imagine if he did!
The last thing the country needs is corporate America dictating a perverse recovery policy. Jamie Dimon and his friends have already done quite enough, thank you.
In a recent piece in The New York Review of Books, Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson cite a fascinating poll done by political scientist Larry Bartels and colleagues showing that the wealthiest Americans put deficit reduction and tax cuts ahead of jobs, while most Americans put jobs first. We already knew that, but this is research confirmation by respected political scientists.
It is a mark of just how far the country has moved to the right that the most effective voice for a strong recovery policy today is the chair of the Federal Reserve, a person first appointed by George W. Bush, and a professed admirer of Milton Friedman, as well as someone whose role usually requires him to be the most inflation-phobic person in the room.
But Bernanke evidently has a learning curve. Would that other leaders did.
Fri, 2012-09-14 16:41
This is gonna work as well as QE1, QE2, QE3, QE4 etc.. As soon as you see the stock market jump, you know the middle class is getting the short end of the stick. 93% of all stock is owned by the top 20% and 80% of the stock income goes to the top 5%. They love these programs, but it will do nothing for employment in the near term, if ever. $85 billion a month? That's another $1 trillion per year. Let's just take that money, add it to the stimulus then give to employers in the form of vouchers to hire and pay the 20 million unemployed people @ $31,250 a year. It is much more direct and a sure way to get people back to work.
Dollars $2,500,000,000,000
Unemployed people 20,000,000
Per person $125,000
4 years employment $31,250
Fri, 2012-09-14 17:00
Chairman Bernanke has indeed done well within the understood bounds of his role to fight inflation much harder than promoting full employment while refusing to go along with the reckless and callous austerity program of the conservatives. The mainstream newsmedia has never pushed the following juxtaposition of facts into prominence. The Panic of 2008 destroyed $12-$13 TRILLION of household wealth (39% of it) plus 8.5 million jobs. The 2 stimuli totaled less than $1 Tillion misguided for failure. No way that could make up for $12-$13 Trillion lost, but it probably did save a couple million jobs. The Fed then lent the gambling banks at super-low interest amounts tallied variously at $7.7 Trillion (Bloomberg) $16.1 Trillion (GAO Report 11-696, 7/10) or $29 Trillion (Working Paper, Levy Institute Bard College.) THAT"S what saved some millions of jobs in the Mega corporate non-Wall Street economy, preventing complete liquidity freeze and probable world depression.
Bernanke has urged more be done but not explicitly stated what needs be done. This would be for Congress to create by keystroke only, enough "United States Notes," greenbacks, GOVERNMENT MONEY CREATED WITHOUT TAKING DEBT(!). This money the government could loan to mortgagors to payoff their underwater arrears, to refinance at extremely low rates, students college loans, to help small businesses grow and hire, by subsidizing wages for new hires and to help individual inventors and entrepreneurs. It's called controlled, targeted "reflation." America survived as a nation creation of government money in the Revolution and Civil War. Roosevelt and Congress had the authority to do this in 1929, and their "stimuli," the New Deal programs were helpful. But they didn't do a massive Greenback stimulus and the Panic of 1929 turned into the Great Depression of 1929 - 39, ended only by preparation for WW2. We're 4 years into the 2nd Great Depression now.
Fri, 2012-09-14 18:34
Reality, or at least an ability to make 'sense' of our deficit with respect to GDP, shows that in good times or bad, or recession, depression, bubble or boom, total government debt as a percent of GDP is increasing. Since the days of FDR we have ridden an ever higher wave of 'owing' - to ourselves (SS), to others (bonds and treasuries) and to our children (taxes). Over time this increase in debt increases - it never retreats, is never paid off. Just a larger and larger percentage. Yet still the only answer to our current situation (and all 'current' situations that seem to occur more quickly) is to increase that debt, increase that debt to GDP percentage. After watching and listening to this refrain year after endless decade I've come to realize that it is hopeless, that this debt will continue to expand until under its own weight it implodes. Those that would advise us have no better vision. They never did. They never will.
Bill Barclay
Fri, 2012-09-14 21:00
In an earlier comment someone talked about FDR and 1929 measures not working - this is an example of historical ignorance. FDR was elected in 1932, not 1928 or 1929 and did not take office until Mach 1933. Tthe time between election and office assumption was larger because of the 19th century transportation realities.
On to the issue at hand. A fed gov jobs program financed by a modest financial transaction tax (FTT) which, I am very happy to say, will be proposed soon. A serious FTT would raise $350 - 750 billion (it depends upon your guestimate of the impact on high frequency trading (HFT) - and thus the extent of trade suppression)
. Even at the lower levels we could create a fed gov jobs program that would put 750,000 - 1,000,000 people to work; at the upper levels we could put almost 2 million people to work. And the trade off? Fewer 20 somethings paid $1 - 2 million for stealing $$ from real people trying to provide for sending their children to college, living ok in retirement, having health care in their declining years. All the things that the top 1% say F... you to. Time for the guillotine.
Sun, 2012-09-16 16:38
The FTT will never happen. There is no law that says securities have to be traded in the United States. A FTT would simply result in the NYSE moving to someplace like Toronto. Furthermore, NYC would lobby against any such tax to avoid losing its lucrative financial sector.
Fri, 2012-09-14 21:29
What nobody seems to mention is that if Congress had passed Obama's jobs bill - it would been far more effective and cost less in the long run that QE3. It just appears that QE does not cost the tax payer anything, but actually it does in terms of the value of the dollar. Not just the cost, but a direct stimulus by the government is also more effective.
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Sat, 2012-09-15 17:17
If Bernanke is trying to destroy what is left of the middle class in the US, he's picked the perfect policy to do it. Money printing (aka currency depreciation) will NOT create incentives for businesses to expand and hire. Money printing WILL drive up the price of oil and food. The rich don't care about the price of gas and groceries but everyone else does. The poor will suffer the most under Bernanke's Mugabe-lite economics.
The Dow jumped 200 points after the Fed's QE announcement. This great news for the top 20% that own 90% of the equity. I'm sure the other 80% would rather have a job and cheaper food.
Money printing has NEVER brought prosperity to ANY country EVER! It hasn't worked in the past and it won't work now.
Sat, 2012-09-15 17:28
Bernanke made a show of no confidence in the Obama economy when he extended these interest rates through 2015.
What we just witnessed was another Bailout/Stimulus for Bondholders of Mortgage backed securities and Banks that the Taxpayer will be left holding the bag for. Bernanke succumbed to political Democratic pressure after they were screaming for a pre-election bailout.....If you think 2008 was bad , just wait.......If Obama thinks he inherited a mess, it will look like a cake walk compared to what Romney might be inheriting.
Tue, 2012-09-18 12:18
I fervently stick with the notion that Bernanke is doing what it takes to revamp the economy, and not merely orchestrating a show of "no confidence in the Obama economy". Stringent supporters of Romney are adept to believing that the economy is badly stampeded by Obama, and forgetting that the innocent man shouldered the burden from the eight years of bad handling. That Bernanke 's current "save us" action on the economy by the extension of interest rates through 2015 would open up a cankerworm of "Bailout/Stimulus for Bondholders of Mortgage backed securities and Banks" is a fallacy. Someone has to do something, and the moves of Bernanke are nothing more than what the economy deserves to make it begin to look radiant. If Romney takes the Presidential hot seat in November, Bernanke's economic action at the moment would provide a pleasing carpet for him to step on inside the Oval Office.
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Olufemi Olorunda (master's in public heath), Beth Rath (Ph.D. in philosophy), and Kayla Sutton (master's of health administration) are the recipients of this year's Edward L. and Rhelda Marby Morgan, Ph.D., Endowed Book Fund. Edward Morgan established the fund in honor of his late wife who, at the time of her death, was completing her dissertation in American studies at Saint Louis University.
This year marks the 14th anniversary of the fund providing textbooks and supplies for graduate students at Saint Louis University. Each of this year's awardees received $900 to help them purchase books and supplies.
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Who in his right mind would take two completely different Corvettes and turn them into one? Anthony McDowell, that's who. McDowell's abiding passion for cars led him to a 25-year career in collision repair and hot-rodding. In addition to providing him with a good living, all those years fettling wrecked and broken-down cars gave McDowell considerable insight into automotive structural design. This knowledge would eventually prove pivotal in the construction his hybrid Corvette.
McDowell's story begins after he sold his collision center-cum-rod shop. Instead of taking a typical two-week vacation, McDowell spent two years in Costa Rica. While he loved life in the Central American paradise, he deeply missed the sight of American iron. In fact, the Toyotas and Hondas that inundated the region bored him to tears. Where were the street machines, the ones that could run like drag cars but still idle all day with the AC on, or cruise across the country in comfort?
McDowell had built cars like that in the past, but he had always felt that something was missing. Indeed, no matter how much time or money he threw at them, or how great they looked, these vehicles always lacked driveability when compared with their newer counterparts.
Eventually, McDowell had an epiphany: He would build his dream car in reverse. Instead of starting with an old car and updating it, he would begin with a late-model Corvette and modify it to look like a classic C2. But the car would require more than just looks. It needed performance, safety, comfort, and the dependability of a modern Vette.
Improving interior comfort over that of an early Corvette wouldn't be difficult. The larger doors of the C5/C6 cars greatly ease entry and exit, and the wider passenger compartment provides more shoulder and elbow room. Larger seats with multiple adjust-ments also improve fit and comfort, and the shifter is located in such a way that the armrest is still usable with the seat adjusted fully rearward.
With anticipation having reached a fever pitch, it was time to find a donor car. After moving back to the States, McDowell found a '98 Corvette online that fit his plans perfectly. But while making preliminary measurements and mocking up parts placement, it became clear to McDowell why car bodies were designed and built by corporations with teams of engineers and million-dollar budgets. In fact, he came close to scrapping the entire project numerous times. Fortunately he persevered and continued on with the conversion.


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First. I ask to be civil meaning that it doesn't need to turn into "this policy" vs. "that policy" (and being called something) as almost all threads all over the internet have turned into. I am coming from the point of "bias"? How is that? Am I coming from my opinion? Yes. Please, stop (another reason I asked to stay civil). In my opinion (obviously...so I guess I'm biased to my opinion) is that both Xbox has the ability to play while downloading as well. I did forget the ability to play previous PS3 games (coming in the future, and potentially PS2/PS1 games) but I feel (as it's my opinion) that it's just a form of backwards compatibility, and that's not a big thing as it's just a new way of doing something that's been done before (again, my opinion).
I'm not flaimbaiting. I appreciate everyone's input as everyone has different opinions and different views.
EDIT: Note, I'm not saying that they aren't innovations (using Gaikai), I just didn't think it was. But I will concede it as being one.
Because your opinion is biased against the PS4. That was evident from you opening post in which you listed the various features from the other consoles, features by the way also available for PS4, and proceed to only listed the "Share" function under the PS4; and thus concluded that the PS4 was not innovative. That is just a bull****. The fact you then ask everyone keep it civil, after having posted what clearly was a flame bait is just comical IMO.


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Excursion - Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
Join the Hart Park House Senior Center for an entertaining and educational excursion to the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Downtown LA on Friday, June 28th, 2013. Founded in 1979, MOCA is the only museum in Los Angeles devoted exclusively to contemporary art. It is committed to the collection, presentation, and interpretation of work produced since 1940 in all media, and to preserving that work for future generations. The trip to MOCA includes an educator-lead guided tour which highlights the various exhibits in a fun and exciting way as well as provides the most information about MOCA's collections and current exhibitions. Lunch will be enjoyed at a local restaurant, and it is recommended to bring $10-15 for lunch. The cost of this trip is only $25.00 and goes from 10:00 to 2:30pm.
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