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Reading Rilke Again
Started by Shaye in Reflections on Life Jun 11. 0 Replies 0 Loves
If your a writer and you haven't read Rilke's, Letters to a Young Poet, do yourself a favor. It lives by my bedside and travels everywhere I go, I am currently wearing out my fourth copy. –Rainier Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet) “Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write: find out whether it is spreading its roots into the deepest places of your heart, acknowledge to yourself whether you would have to die if it were denied you to write. This above all--ask yourself in…Continue
CB Members' Award-Winning Books
Started by Roman Payne in Books We’re Reading Jun 11. 0 Replies 2 Loves
June 11th 2013 - Here are a couple CB members we're showing off today: Bob van Laerhoven (Belgium) and Lee Case (USA)...CB Member Bob van Laerhoven's novel (written in Dutch) won the Hercule Poirot Prize for best suspense novel of the year. He now has a literary agent in the USA and has recorded an English language MP3 to introduce CulturalBook members to his oeuvre:…Continue
How best to serialise?
Started by Danny Jorgensen in Publishing Jun 7. 0 Replies 0 Loves
I want ot serialise a story I'm working on, and I'm trying to work out how best ot start publishing.The story that will consist of around 120 chapters (prob 4000-6000 words each), spaced five years apart for the body of the story. I should be able to start releasing them in a month or so.I was thinking of putting out the first few chapters for free, to get feedback and so on, and then publish them one at a time, every week or two, for about 15-30 cents each. Probably on Kobo, Kindle, and…Continue
Member Opportunities / ♪ by Lee Crase / ✎ by Pietros Maneos
Started by Roman Payne in Free Member Offers Jun 7. 0 Replies 2 Loves
Members, you are invited to share your... ✎ Literary Quotes✎ and/or ♪ Audio Files ♪Information Below ▼ But first...Please listen to this audio recording by CulturalBook member Lee Crase: Bleeding-History-Lee-Crase.m4aPlease read today's literary quote (DLQ) by CB member Pietros Maneos: www.dailyliteraryquote.comTo…Continue
DISCUSSION: The Furious Poet and A Damned German Keyboard...
Started by Roman Payne in Music. Last reply by Chalice Divine Jun 7. 8 Replies 4 Loves
Scheiße !! It's the novelist's nightmare: the keyboard on my laptop broke almost 24 hours ago... it is a keyboard in English, as the novel I am writing is in English... And since I live in Paris, I cannot find a keyboard English very easily. So, in despair, I first bought an external keyboard French (a language I know fluently); but since French keyboards have the letters all in the wrong order. But this proved clumsy to write on, so I then bought a keyboard in German (a language I do not…Continue
Colette Quote Today
Started by Shaye in Reflections on Life. Last reply by Curtiss Plaskon Jun 2. 1 Reply 2 Loves
This was an excellent “heads up” for me, just the reminder I needed! But if I may be so presumptuous as to add: You must become a writer before you can become an author, and that means writing down all the “twaddle” as Katherine Mansfield called it.“I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.” Katherine Mansfield Continue
Just Say No!
Started by Gatzby in CulturalBook the Website. Last reply by Terri Price Jun 1. 8 Replies 4 Loves
In my inbox (my reply follows)-Hello, CulturalBook members. In the past week we've acquired about a dozen new members whose profiles promote some kind of wellness product: colon cleanse, weight loss, wrinkle cream, and other similar products that have nothing to do with the theme of CulturalBook. Also, most of their profile photos vs. profile descriptions clearly show that somehow they have done an excellent job of changing genders.Should these "members" be deleted? Please let me know your…Continue
BOYTA 2012 AWARDS
Started by João Cerqueira in CulturalBook the Website May 31. 0 Replies 0 Loves
NEW%20BOTYA%20sticker-Finalist%20gold.jpgMy novel The Tragedy of Fidel Castro is one of the BOTYA 2012 Finalists in Translations. The others are Dom Quixote, by Cervantes; The plain in flames by Juan Rulfo; and The world Eve left us by Boston Teran.…Continue
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Today's Quote
Posted by Herbert B. Fox on June 19, 2013 at 8:12am 1 Comment 1 Love
Today's quote:
"The true Greek, is a god, not a cautious, precise, calculating being with the soul of an engineer."
is completely offensive to those of us who do have the soul of an engineer.
It makes absolutely no sense to repeat such stupidity.
tolerance
Posted by Jack Spratt on June 19, 2013 at 12:46am 0 Comments 0 Loves
The peace I know upon awakening within the cyclonic change, surfing rogue waves, somewhat akin to awakening before execution at dawn is: Attributable to my merciless engagement with vanity, my own.…
Continue pruning myself
Posted by Jack Spratt on June 16, 2013 at 5:26pm 0 Comments 0 Loves
Falling, mortally wounded by exhaustion, both physical and psychological, to sleep, I dream and in the dreams are dialogs. And this one was a massive endless conversation about love. In reference of which I now envision pruning…
Continue loom of dawn
Posted by Jack Spratt on June 15, 2013 at 2:51pm 0 Comments 0 Loves
Woven together on the loom of our time, we the many dissimilar threads, which in their turn are woven by birth and life’s experience form the fabric, or tapestry, of our collective history going forward. Making the bone yard of what…
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Where Did All the People Go?
I went to Paris for two weeks and had a lovely time as usual. I so love that magical city. That is the reason I have not been around here much until recently and it seems every time I sign on I am the only only one in the members online box. Also, as I view the discussions and other posts the dates of the last postings go back to April in some cases and here we are approaching the end of May. So I've begun to wonder, where did everyone go and why?
Could it be the result of the site's new upgrades and subcategories which I find tremendously confusing? Do you find this true also? Is that what is keeping you away? Or have you become board with each other or have you nothing to say, ponder, ask, post of your own creative endeavors?
It's like all of a sudden everyone has done inside their shell like turtles and won't come out to play. People who used to be here all the time, at least on and off. What's the matter, folks? I would really like to know? It's lonely here now. That's my lament. Why isn't this working anymore. Any thoughts???
Cheers!
Cheryl
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Permalink Reply by Cheryl Roshak on -
Yes we are! Yes we are!! :)
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Good to hear your writing away, that's wonderful news from a writer! ;) Glad you dropped in to say hello also. This site becomes more confusing but I like to reach out now and then!!!
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Me too, terribly confusing! What were they thinking??? I totally agree with what you say...
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Permalink Reply by Trish Crew on -
Hi, Cheryl.
I haven't been here much lately, either. It hasn't been because I've become bored, escept with the Anais Nin discussion which has gone so far afield that I think I will move on.
I've been trying to think of a good question to add to the discussion board. All of them seem to come out as yes or no questions and there's no discussion in that.
I think I'll look around a bit for a discussion I can contribute to. Maybe then I can talk with my online friends again.
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Permalink Reply by Cheryl Roshak on
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Well, though this one is over, I see it sprouted some other lively discussions at last!! :) Whew! It was getting pretty dead around here!!
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Permalink Reply by Wilson B. Sanchez on -
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Permalink Reply by Thomas Williamson on -
Cheryl, I've hardly even visited the forum since arriving back in the states. I've just not had much time. I know what you mean, though, about the continuing change that happens here at the site. I plan to check in as frequently as possible, and am reading some of the newer posts here, as well as some new additions to older posts.
One thing I've noticed for a long time now on this forum as well as others is that posts seem to come in cycles. Sometimes there are lulls, and sometimes a flurry of activity. I think everyone gets burned out on reading and posting at times - at least until they get away from it for a bit and sort of recharge the batteries, if you know what I mean, so they'll have something fresh to say when they come back.
Anyway, I'm back from time to time, and hope to see you around.
Tom
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Permalink Reply by Cheryl Roshak on
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Tom, good to hear from you. You mentioned you would be away for some time from here as you were coming back to the states. Hope everything is going well for you. How do find things here now or do you miss England now? Mixed bag I suspect. :)
You're right, these things do go in cycles as there aren't enough of us to keep it going nor is there a focus that engages us all at all times. But I've grown fond of those I know, and wonder if they dropped out when I don't see them around for some time.Thanks for stopping by.
Cheryl
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