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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Posted by Herbert B. Fox on June 19, 2013 at 8:12am 0 Comments 0 Loves
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.
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 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 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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Jasmine Ayres commented on Curtiss Plaskon's blog post The Face of EvilJasmine Ayres replied to Lucinda Scott's discussion I LOVE Downton Abbey!Jasmine Ayres replied to Roman Payne's discussion Can writers love other writers ??Jasmine Ayres replied to Roman Payne's discussion Can writers love other writers ??Jasmine Ayres replied to Trish Crew's discussion Is depression good for you?Jasmine Ayres replied to Jay Wells's discussion Yesterday's Quote???????Jasmine Ayres replied to Glenn S Dorfman's discussion Maybe for the greatest of artists...T.S. Elliot is correct...What do you think?Jasmine Ayres replied to Trish Crew's discussion Catholicism: Why did you leave the Church? Posted on April 16, 2012 at 3:32pm 0 Comments 0 Loves
Great photo of cat & mouse. Glad we don't know who won.
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 3:35pm 0 Comments 0 Loves
Such wonderful photos--Thanks to all that have submitted them--I am refreshed!
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