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Reflections of a working writer and reader

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. James Michener

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— Five Questions: Amp Power

1. Why do you blog?
It’s a creative outlet for me. I spend the day taking care of my son, and at night I can disappear into my blogger persona.

2. Which author and/or book has most influenced you?
Jack Kerouac. His joyous delight in words is infectious.

3. Which three blogs do you most visit?
My favorite blogs cover my three favorite subjects: the arts, music, and literature: Modern Art Notes at: (http://www.artsjournal.com/man/),
Uncanny at: (http://smileysmile.net/uncanny/),
John Baker’s Blog at: (http://www.johnbakersblog.co.uk/)

4. Why do you read fiction?
To learn more about myself.

5. What makes you laugh?
My son’s giggle.

Alice Perry (aka Alicatte Amp) blogs at Amp Power,which can be found here: http://amppower.blogspot.com/

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— Five Questions: Mystery Dawg

1. Why do you blog?
As a way to communicate to the mystery community at large. It is my way of helping authors get their work recognized more widely and also for my reading audience to have a record of the signing. I also use this as a warm up to my daily writing. As of [...]

— continue reading . . . Five Questions: Mystery Dawg

— Five Questions: The Cusp of Something

1. Why do you blog?
Not sure at mo - as I seem to be taking a summer breather! but on the whole to showcase the neglected, non mainstream.
2. Which author and/or book has most influenced you?
Many many but has to be ultimately Alexandria Quartet - Lawrence Durrell or the Affirmation or Beautiful Mutants by [...]

— continue reading . . . Five Questions: The Cusp of Something

— Five Questions: Thumb Drives and Oven Clocks

1. Why do you blog?
I guess there’s a couple reasons. My high-minded, optimistic, lofty, if not sappy-sounding ambition is to promote the books and authors I love to other possible fans. I like the idea of someone stumbling across my blog, seeing something in common between my literary tastes and theirs, and using that as [...]

— continue reading . . . Five Questions: Thumb Drives and Oven Clocks

— Five Questions: Todd A

1. Why do you blog?
I can’t stop telling people what I think no matter how little they’re interested.
2. Which author and/or book has most influenced you?
Actually a statement by one author influenced me more than anything. Ian Flemming once said that he wanted his writing to be literate but not literature. It may [...]

— continue reading . . . Five Questions: Todd A

— Five Questions: Saving Carravagio

1. Why do you blog?
I’m not very good at it. But on a hokey level - to reach out to readers and let them in at the same time.
2. Which author and/or book has most influenced you?
It all started with Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment & Camus’ The Outsider.
3. Which three blogs do you most visit?
John [...]

— continue reading . . . Five Questions: Saving Carravagio

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A Writer’s Notebook I
(La Peste) The Plague by Albert Camus - a review
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Bhagdad Burning
Five things Feminism has done for me
Learning to Write I
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