Today I had the pleasure to meet Ben Fountain, who came to lunch at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Ben’s first novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, debuted this month. His short story collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, won a PEN/Hemingway award, a Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction, a Whiting Writers [...]
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Remember back in November when I wrote a post titled Are You Blogging To The Wrong Audience? Then I said I was going to start to post about non-writing-related topics once a week, probably on Thursdays? Well that lasted about a month before I got overwhelmed and regressed to blogging once a week and only [...] In light of this week’s 4.0 earthquake here in the Bay Area, which gave my house in Berkeley a good shake, I want to talk about disaster preparedness this week. I’m no expert, but I have taken a community emergency response team class through a local fire department, and I do have two disaster bins [...] Whether you’re celebrating Hanukkah or Christmas or another holiday this week, Happy Holidays! I won’t be online much over the weekend, but I’ll be back next Tuesday and Thursday with two great new posts. Meanwhile, what is your favorite holiday tradition? Stringing popcorn? (I did that once when I was a kid and gave up [...] Last year around this time, I read a blog post about how to help homeless people. It gave a list of items they could use, like soap and combs and toothbrushes and washcloths, and suggested carrying Subway gift certificates and a list of agencies that help homeless people in your car. I wanted to put [...] As a writer, you probably own a computer. Maybe you have two, a laptop and a desktop. You may also have an e-reader, a Kindle or an iPad, and you most certainly have a cell phone, whether it be a smart one or a dumb one. You probably also own a car, a camera, and [...] I’m on a tight (self-imposed) deadline to get my WIP revised before I go on vacation in two weeks, AND I need to rent a car and get my hair cut and buy a bathing suit and 25 other things before then, so this week I have a Q4U: What TV shows do you watch, [...] I have come down with yet another virus. UGH! So since Tax Day is rapidly approaching, I’m reposting an interview with a tax man that I did this time last year. If you’re wondering what you can and cannot deduct when filing your Schedule C (for people writing and editing freelance), this should help: Every [...] |
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