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Dec22	Christmas Wishes For You Jason Boog December 22, 2006 Know More: Music and Writing Writing Contests, writing resources First of all, I've been slacking this week. Between holiday shopping and the day job and freelance stuff and this blog, my brain has been too crowded. I miss having our daily three-post connection, and I hope to see you in the new year. Secondly, enjoy my Best of 2006 Music List, it's the closest thing I could get you to a holiday present. I hope you can enjoy a little vacation time with your family, like me. Finally, let me introduce you to Deborah Ng, the mastermind behind Freelance Writing Jobs, a warehouse of web and print scribbling work, just for you. The holiday season hasn't slowed her down. Just check out her list of jobs! Posted at 7:49 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec21	"Mother me before you eat me" : My Twenty Favorite Songs From 2006 That I Want To Share With My Friends Jason Boog December 21, 2006 Every holiday season I make a compilation CD for my friends and family, collecting the songs that inspired me the previous year. This year, thanks to you lovely people, my circle of friends has expanded into the Internets. For that reason,... Continue Reading Posted at 7:38 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec19	Crime Writers Discuss the Death of the Mystery Series Jason Boog December 19, 2006 Do you feel like you're running out of time to publish your masterpiece? Sarah Weinman has generated tons of comments by suggesting that all mystery writers (an in turn, all writers) are facing a new deadline. According to Weinman, publishers have... Continue Reading Posted at 3:34 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Five Things Most People Don't Know About Me Jason Boog December 19, 2006 The blogger and writer Bud Bilanich just tagged me with a blogged chain letter. This is the first web meme I've ever joined. I'm pretty excited. The Internet--especially the content part of it--relies on smart writers exchanging evocative questions and... Continue Reading Posted at 8:56 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec18	If This Doesn't Exist, We Need To Create It Jason Boog December 18, 2006 If this doesn't exist for writers, we need to create it. I just read about a ground-breaking new art and social networking site created by the Saatchi Gallery for fledgling artists. It's called Stuart. Three million different people visit every... Continue Reading Posted at 8:01 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	"When you find someone you can work with, don't ever let them go": How To Build Relationships with Editors Jason Boog December 18, 2006 Chris Eaton wrote a whole book about a writer who dedicates his life to the all-consuming, painstaking, and unprofitable task of re-building a church tower out of words. Without the support of a good editor, your writing career will feel just... Continue Reading Posted at 6:44 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec14	Will Google Buy a Publisher? Jason Boog December 14, 2006 I don't spend too much time thinking or writing about the over-arching, uber-problems facing publishing. I'm here to find advice for all the fledgling writers at the beginning of their careers. But Ed Champion (fresh off a quality podcasted interview... Continue Reading Posted at 8:01 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	"We just made the record and hoped" : How To Build a Stronger Web Audience Jason Boog December 14, 2006 In the old days, somebody writing stories or rock songs about "apocalyptic daydreams of six-legged robotic horses," would toil in obscurity.Thanks to the lo-fi magic of MySpace, Chris Eaton can keep his novel The Grammar Architect and his music from... Continue Reading Posted at 7:06 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec13	Where's My Stinking Hammock? Jason Boog December 13, 2006 When I was a younger writer, I dreamed of swaying in a hammock in between palm trees while writing books. Now I'm all grown up, and I spend my precious lunch hour doing mind-numbing line edits on my novel. The writing... Continue Reading Posted at 7:45 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	"You should always give a book about 50 pages" : How and What a Novelist Reads Jason Boog December 13, 2006 My favorite part about this job is finding new books along the way. Every week, I get a new list of books composed by one of my favorite writers. You can't beat that. Today, novelist and songwriter Chris Eaton shares his... Continue Reading Posted at 6:43 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec12	The Future of Reading Communities Jason Boog December 12, 2006 Do you have a reading community? Want to build one for free? According to a Reuters' story (by way of Journerdism), Wikipedia's for-profit organization will be giving away software and publishing space to community-minded groups. Writers, take note. This technology... Continue Reading Posted at 7:29 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	"It's nice to get some immediate gratification periodically" : How To Balance Music and Writing Jason Boog December 12, 2006 "Eaton's endearingly off-note vocals career heavenward as he hits those la-da-da-da's between the choruses, rushing to a moment of honest indie transcendence ... The song unravels over several more minutes from there, as the horns dash out a morse-code melody,... Continue Reading Posted at 7:03 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec11	I Became a Writer for the Money, I Practice Law as a Hobby Jason Boog December 11, 2006 Nobody ever says, "I became a writer for the money, I practice law as a hobby." Still, every year a very, very, very select few writers hit the publishing jackpot. I'm not trying to be one of those writers.... Continue Reading Posted at 7:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Rock and Roll and Writing Jason Boog December 11, 2006 As our weeklong interview with novelist/band leader Chris Eaton continues, I'd like to point out one of our rock-music-loving readers, Robin Slick. I discovered her blog last week, as she's a friend of Susan Henderson, a novelist and newly minted graduate... Continue Reading Posted at 7:21 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	"Buy more time to do what you want" : How To Survive As a Fledgling Writer Jason Boog December 11, 2006 "Neil, who could think of little else, threw himself into his work, rebuilding the fantastic church tower word by word ... He decided one should never describe a tower unless one could make it the only one of its kind... Continue Reading Posted at 6:40 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec 8	"One summer I thought I had writer's block, I plotted an entire book" : How To Beat Writer's Block Jason Boog December 8, 2006 "As Rick James' "Superfreak" played, I imagined I was Tessie Hutchinson from "The Lottery," and I'd just drawn the lottery ticket ordering my death. I threw the ticket on the ground and then I did this big dance in front... Continue Reading Posted at 8:06 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Mysteries of Publishing Are Solved Jason Boog December 8, 2006 I've got a big holiday present for all the mystery novelists in the audience... Our favorite mystery writer and blogger Sarah Weinman just linked to an unbelievably cool interview with FOUR (I'm not kidding, FOUR!) mystery publishers. Medieval crime... Continue Reading Posted at 6:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Open Source Journalism Jason Boog December 8, 2006 Could you fit in my suitcase? I hope so, because you're coming with me. Early next year I'm taking a trip to Guatemala, my favorite country in Central America. I lived there for two wonderful years, and I'm going... Continue Reading Posted at 6:50 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec 7	You Are Six Words Away From Winning An iPod, Baby! Jason Boog December 7, 2006 Smith Magazine just grabbed the six-word story ball and ran with it, throwing in a brand-new iPod to encourage the trend. As I said before, these little writing exercises are perfect for chopping through boredom and writer's block. Now you can... Continue Reading Posted at 8:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	"Stop making the world all about you and your career" : How To Build Relationships With Editors Jason Boog December 7, 2006 Welcome to the penultimate installment of my interview with Pushcart-nominated author, Susan Henderson. Over at her website LitPark, she wrote explained the secret of her success: "LitPark is only as good as the people who play here." Today, her father-in-law comes... Continue Reading Posted at 7:56 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec 6	"I don't think I'd be sane if I only wore one hat" : How To Balance Work and Writing Projects Jason Boog December 6, 2006 "I didn't expect to be so scared of aging. At the grocery store, where Christie Brinkley looks 23 on a magazine cover, just as she did when I was a girl, I overspend our budget by adding expensive creams to... Continue Reading Posted at 7:36 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	James Bond Fights Shambling Beasts From Beyond! Jason Boog December 6, 2006 Do you ever think about literary mash-ups? Charles Strauss just published The Jennifer Morgue, a book that combined the horror of H.P. Lovecraft with the James Bond spy mythos. Think about the possibilities! I think we spend so much... Continue Reading Posted at 6:29 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec 5	The Experience of Being Heard: How Writers Can Build Web Community Jason Boog December 5, 2006 "For all of you writers, artists, photographers, and people captured by a certain place on the map, would you tell me about the setting that keeps cropping up in your work?" Recently, Susan Henderson asked her readers to answer that... Continue Reading Posted at 7:48 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How To Use Skullduggery In A Sentence Jason Boog December 5, 2006 Last night I spent fifteen minutes of perfectly good writing time trying to think of a word to describe bad Chinese food. I ended up going with "gooey." But I'm not the first writer to get hung up on finding... Continue Reading Posted at 6:33 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec 4	"The world does not need another blog" : Learning the Fine Art of Web Writing Jason Boog December 4, 2006 "Sometimes in my room I imagined myself fighting other kids, and felt I had something powerful to unleash that would surprise them, given my size. This did not turn out to be the case, and when Tyra socked me in... Continue Reading Posted at 6:49 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How To Turn Obsession Into Stories Jason Boog December 4, 2006 I am obsessed with obsession. I write about the most obsessive writing communities on the web. I read the most obsessive writers. I fill my iPod with music by obsessive musicians. If newspapers had an Obsession Section, I would be... Continue Reading Posted at 6:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Publishing Spot Week In Review: Historical Book Tour Novel Month Scavenger Hunt Jason Boog December 4, 2006 I don't know if you noticed, but last week snuck by, snowed by a post-holiday weekend daze. I just wanted to collect the best posts, just in case you missed them... Novelist Sarah Hall stopped by to discuss researching... Continue Reading Posted at 5:16 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec 1	"Communing with the people-reader hybrid" : How To Build a Base of Readers Jason Boog December 1, 2006 Over the course of her career, Sarah Hall has written two novels: the Coney Island drama, The Electric Michaelangelo and the naturalistic Haweswater. She's been our special guest this week, sharing writerly wisdom and research tips. You can meet her... Continue Reading Posted at 8:38 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	New Assignments Coming In Jason Boog December 1, 2006 NewAssignment.net just launched this week, a laboratory combining citizen journalists with a functioning news bureau. Earlier this year, the news giant Reuters hooked up with a band of citizen journalism upstarts--donating $100,000 to Jay Rosen's striking experiment, NewAssignment.net. Eventually, the group... Continue Reading Posted at 6:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How To Build Your Own Storytelling Space Jason Boog December 1, 2006 If it wasn't for my buddy Steve, I'd probably never have anything exciting to talk about. Luckily for both of us, Steve exists and we have something exciting to talk about today. Steve just published a fabulous essay about the Instant... Continue Reading Posted at 6:49 AM \| Permalink \| Comments

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Dec22	Christmas Wishes For You Jason Boog December 22, 2006 Know More: Music and Writing Writing Contests, writing resources First of all, I've been slacking this week. Between holiday shopping and the day job and freelance stuff and this blog, my brain has been too crowded. I miss having our daily three-post connection, and I hope to see you in the new year. Secondly, enjoy my Best of 2006 Music List, it's the closest thing I could get you to a holiday present. I hope you can enjoy a little vacation time with your family, like me. Finally, let me introduce you to Deborah Ng, the mastermind behind Freelance Writing Jobs, a warehouse of web and print scribbling work, just for you. The holiday season hasn't slowed her down. Just check out her list of jobs! Posted at 7:49 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec21	"Mother me before you eat me" : My Twenty Favorite Songs From 2006 That I Want To Share With My Friends Jason Boog December 21, 2006 Every holiday season I make a compilation CD for my friends and family, collecting the songs that inspired me the previous year. This year, thanks to you lovely people, my circle of friends has expanded into the Internets. For that reason,... Continue Reading Posted at 7:38 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec19	Crime Writers Discuss the Death of the Mystery Series Jason Boog December 19, 2006 Do you feel like you're running out of time to publish your masterpiece? Sarah Weinman has generated tons of comments by suggesting that all mystery writers (an in turn, all writers) are facing a new deadline. According to Weinman, publishers have... Continue Reading Posted at 3:34 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Five Things Most People Don't Know About Me Jason Boog December 19, 2006 The blogger and writer Bud Bilanich just tagged me with a blogged chain letter. This is the first web meme I've ever joined. I'm pretty excited. The Internet--especially the content part of it--relies on smart writers exchanging evocative questions and... Continue Reading Posted at 8:56 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec18	If This Doesn't Exist, We Need To Create It Jason Boog December 18, 2006 If this doesn't exist for writers, we need to create it. I just read about a ground-breaking new art and social networking site created by the Saatchi Gallery for fledgling artists. It's called Stuart. Three million different people visit every... Continue Reading Posted at 8:01 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	"When you find someone you can work with, don't ever let them go": How To Build Relationships with Editors Jason Boog December 18, 2006 Chris Eaton wrote a whole book about a writer who dedicates his life to the all-consuming, painstaking, and unprofitable task of re-building a church tower out of words. Without the support of a good editor, your writing career will feel just... Continue Reading Posted at 6:44 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec14	Will Google Buy a Publisher? Jason Boog December 14, 2006 I don't spend too much time thinking or writing about the over-arching, uber-problems facing publishing. I'm here to find advice for all the fledgling writers at the beginning of their careers. But Ed Champion (fresh off a quality podcasted interview... Continue Reading Posted at 8:01 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	"We just made the record and hoped" : How To Build a Stronger Web Audience Jason Boog December 14, 2006 In the old days, somebody writing stories or rock songs about "apocalyptic daydreams of six-legged robotic horses," would toil in obscurity.Thanks to the lo-fi magic of MySpace, Chris Eaton can keep his novel The Grammar Architect and his music from... Continue Reading Posted at 7:06 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec13	Where's My Stinking Hammock? Jason Boog December 13, 2006 When I was a younger writer, I dreamed of swaying in a hammock in between palm trees while writing books. Now I'm all grown up, and I spend my precious lunch hour doing mind-numbing line edits on my novel. The writing... Continue Reading Posted at 7:45 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	"You should always give a book about 50 pages" : How and What a Novelist Reads Jason Boog December 13, 2006 My favorite part about this job is finding new books along the way. Every week, I get a new list of books composed by one of my favorite writers. You can't beat that. Today, novelist and songwriter Chris Eaton shares his... Continue Reading Posted at 6:43 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec12	The Future of Reading Communities Jason Boog December 12, 2006 Do you have a reading community? Want to build one for free? According to a Reuters' story (by way of Journerdism), Wikipedia's for-profit organization will be giving away software and publishing space to community-minded groups. Writers, take note. This technology... Continue Reading Posted at 7:29 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	"It's nice to get some immediate gratification periodically" : How To Balance Music and Writing Jason Boog December 12, 2006 "Eaton's endearingly off-note vocals career heavenward as he hits those la-da-da-da's between the choruses, rushing to a moment of honest indie transcendence ... The song unravels over several more minutes from there, as the horns dash out a morse-code melody,... Continue Reading Posted at 7:03 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec11	I Became a Writer for the Money, I Practice Law as a Hobby Jason Boog December 11, 2006 Nobody ever says, "I became a writer for the money, I practice law as a hobby." Still, every year a very, very, very select few writers hit the publishing jackpot. I'm not trying to be one of those writers.... Continue Reading Posted at 7:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Rock and Roll and Writing Jason Boog December 11, 2006 As our weeklong interview with novelist/band leader Chris Eaton continues, I'd like to point out one of our rock-music-loving readers, Robin Slick. I discovered her blog last week, as she's a friend of Susan Henderson, a novelist and newly minted graduate... Continue Reading Posted at 7:21 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	"Buy more time to do what you want" : How To Survive As a Fledgling Writer Jason Boog December 11, 2006 "Neil, who could think of little else, threw himself into his work, rebuilding the fantastic church tower word by word ... He decided one should never describe a tower unless one could make it the only one of its kind... Continue Reading Posted at 6:40 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec 8	"One summer I thought I had writer's block, I plotted an entire book" : How To Beat Writer's Block Jason Boog December 8, 2006 "As Rick James' "Superfreak" played, I imagined I was Tessie Hutchinson from "The Lottery," and I'd just drawn the lottery ticket ordering my death. I threw the ticket on the ground and then I did this big dance in front... Continue Reading Posted at 8:06 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Mysteries of Publishing Are Solved Jason Boog December 8, 2006 I've got a big holiday present for all the mystery novelists in the audience... Our favorite mystery writer and blogger Sarah Weinman just linked to an unbelievably cool interview with FOUR (I'm not kidding, FOUR!) mystery publishers. Medieval crime... Continue Reading Posted at 6:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Open Source Journalism Jason Boog December 8, 2006 Could you fit in my suitcase? I hope so, because you're coming with me. Early next year I'm taking a trip to Guatemala, my favorite country in Central America. I lived there for two wonderful years, and I'm going... Continue Reading Posted at 6:50 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec 7	You Are Six Words Away From Winning An iPod, Baby! Jason Boog December 7, 2006 Smith Magazine just grabbed the six-word story ball and ran with it, throwing in a brand-new iPod to encourage the trend. As I said before, these little writing exercises are perfect for chopping through boredom and writer's block. Now you can... Continue Reading Posted at 8:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	"Stop making the world all about you and your career" : How To Build Relationships With Editors Jason Boog December 7, 2006 Welcome to the penultimate installment of my interview with Pushcart-nominated author, Susan Henderson. Over at her website LitPark, she wrote explained the secret of her success: "LitPark is only as good as the people who play here." Today, her father-in-law comes... Continue Reading Posted at 7:56 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec 6	"I don't think I'd be sane if I only wore one hat" : How To Balance Work and Writing Projects Jason Boog December 6, 2006 "I didn't expect to be so scared of aging. At the grocery store, where Christie Brinkley looks 23 on a magazine cover, just as she did when I was a girl, I overspend our budget by adding expensive creams to... Continue Reading Posted at 7:36 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	James Bond Fights Shambling Beasts From Beyond! Jason Boog December 6, 2006 Do you ever think about literary mash-ups? Charles Strauss just published The Jennifer Morgue, a book that combined the horror of H.P. Lovecraft with the James Bond spy mythos. Think about the possibilities! I think we spend so much... Continue Reading Posted at 6:29 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec 5	The Experience of Being Heard: How Writers Can Build Web Community Jason Boog December 5, 2006 "For all of you writers, artists, photographers, and people captured by a certain place on the map, would you tell me about the setting that keeps cropping up in your work?" Recently, Susan Henderson asked her readers to answer that... Continue Reading Posted at 7:48 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How To Use Skullduggery In A Sentence Jason Boog December 5, 2006 Last night I spent fifteen minutes of perfectly good writing time trying to think of a word to describe bad Chinese food. I ended up going with "gooey." But I'm not the first writer to get hung up on finding... Continue Reading Posted at 6:33 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec 4	"The world does not need another blog" : Learning the Fine Art of Web Writing Jason Boog December 4, 2006 "Sometimes in my room I imagined myself fighting other kids, and felt I had something powerful to unleash that would surprise them, given my size. This did not turn out to be the case, and when Tyra socked me in... Continue Reading Posted at 6:49 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How To Turn Obsession Into Stories Jason Boog December 4, 2006 I am obsessed with obsession. I write about the most obsessive writing communities on the web. I read the most obsessive writers. I fill my iPod with music by obsessive musicians. If newspapers had an Obsession Section, I would be... Continue Reading Posted at 6:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Publishing Spot Week In Review: Historical Book Tour Novel Month Scavenger Hunt Jason Boog December 4, 2006 I don't know if you noticed, but last week snuck by, snowed by a post-holiday weekend daze. I just wanted to collect the best posts, just in case you missed them... Novelist Sarah Hall stopped by to discuss researching... Continue Reading Posted at 5:16 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Dec 1	"Communing with the people-reader hybrid" : How To Build a Base of Readers Jason Boog December 1, 2006 Over the course of her career, Sarah Hall has written two novels: the Coney Island drama, The Electric Michaelangelo and the naturalistic Haweswater. She's been our special guest this week, sharing writerly wisdom and research tips. You can meet her... Continue Reading Posted at 8:38 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	New Assignments Coming In Jason Boog December 1, 2006 NewAssignment.net just launched this week, a laboratory combining citizen journalists with a functioning news bureau. Earlier this year, the news giant Reuters hooked up with a band of citizen journalism upstarts--donating $100,000 to Jay Rosen's striking experiment, NewAssignment.net. Eventually, the group... Continue Reading Posted at 6:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How To Build Your Own Storytelling Space Jason Boog December 1, 2006 If it wasn't for my buddy Steve, I'd probably never have anything exciting to talk about. Luckily for both of us, Steve exists and we have something exciting to talk about today. Steve just published a fabulous essay about the Instant... Continue Reading Posted at 6:49 AM \| Permalink \| Comments

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