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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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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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The Catch. A Short Story
Posted by Isham Cook on June 15, 2013 at 2:30pm 0 Comments 1 Love
The more is known about a Shandong woman, the more unknowable she becomes
"Well, what happened?"
"Let me tell the whole story from the start. She's tall with glamorous movie star eyes, tits on the small side but a nice round set of hips. The first time we met she was wearing green army pants, the kind with all the pockets, a tight black shirt and sunglasses, which she took off as soon as we sat down…
Continue moving forward to a new life
Posted by Jack Spratt on June 14, 2013 at 2:46pm 0 Comments 0 Loves
Moving is a pain in the sit down and heart; a death really, while one wonders is there life afterwards? Yet it, as death, is exactly what I envisioned when first considering the idea. My current residency is within an elderly…
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Do we really gain anything from the ceaseless profusion of data? (By Lawrence Weschler)
Started this discussion. Last reply by Jeff Humphreys Jun 3, 2012. 8 Replies 2 Loves
I should perhaps begin by saying that I am as big a fan of the Net and the Web and the whole expanding “information universe” as anyone you are likely to meet. I find myself…Continue
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Glenn S Dorfman Aug 13, 2012. 18 Replies 4 Loves
Dear CulturalBook Members,Now you can read your news and CulturalBook status updates from the same homepage. We have decided to add news RSS feeds to the activity wall. To view, go to the…Continue
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Maralyn D Hill said… Thank you for connecting. Follow your dream. It will be a lot of hard work, but worth the reward.
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Eileen Sembrot said… my 'calling' since I was about 10-years-old was to write. now that I'm 50, it's all falling into place. just before moving to south carolina in order to have the peace and quiet to write, i read a Thoreau quote:"Do not be so vain to sit and write before you have lived life!" that started my engine! i'm finishing a master's in literature and writing this month and am simultaneously starting a freelance writing business on my own. i've finally accumulated enough self-confidence to start my dream!
please check out my new (and first) blog at: anneschicken@blogspot.com so we can talk about common interests.
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