ZURICH, SWITZERLAND: A worldwide coalition of artists has issued a statement criticising the Swiss government and Los Angeles prosecutors over the arrest this week of celebrated film director Roman Polanski, saying that “with his track record of...
Topics: Breaking News

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New York — At the end of a week filled with news of layoffs at some of America’s biggest publishing houses, editors and literary agents are reporting a dramatic increase in the volume of unsolicited manuscripts and query submissions —...
Topics: Breaking News, nanowrimo

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The phenomenal success of National Novel Writing Month (the annual word-accumulation festival where participants dilute the very concept of “writer” down to its most simplistic sense) has spawned a number of similar Internet-based community...
Topics: nanowrimo, top ten list

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Ah, National NOvel Writing Month, that magical time of the year where over a hundred thousand confused misanthropes sequester themselves from their daily miseries to join a massively multiplayer online game where every character is a writer, and when you.
Topics: Demotivator

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A pessimist would say that the 21st Century began on September 11, 2001. I remember looking at my 12-day-old second child that day and thinking that the world had changed, irrevocably, and that she would never know what it was like to live without the...
Topics: Uncategorized

{"title":"A Brief Digression into Politics","post_url":"http:\/\/101reasonstostopwriting.com\/2008\/11\/06\/a-brief-digression-into-politics\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/101reasonstostopwriting.com\/feed\/","author":"seanlindsay","date":"2008-11-05 07:03:18","summary":"A pessimist would say that the 21st Century began on September 11, 2001. I remember looking at my 12-day-old second child that day and thinking that the world had changed, irrevocably, and that she would never know what it was like to live without the..."}