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leo-walsh.com | Leo's Blog: Don't Badger Readers with the "Never-Ending Plot Line"
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013. Don't Badger Readers with the "Never-Ending Plot Line". You want me to read 20,000 pages to get to the. Titanic Belfast on Flickr. Learning from Ursula K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, Terry Pratchett and C.K. Chesterton. Creative writing, like all arts, lacks rules: There is no algorithm that will provide a reliable best seller every time. There are conventions, of course - writers workshop saws like " show. And " kill your adverbs - find stronger verbs. Addressed this trend, and soli...
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leo-walsh.com | Leo's Blog: On Writing
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Image: "Writer's Desk" (by Alein Skyy on Flicker. A compilation of articles by myself and others about writing that I find informative. Is a writer, living in Cleveland, Ohio. You can find his science fiction novel even snow melts. Write As If Your Life Depended on It. The Value Exchange Machine (How I Convinced Myself To Stop Watching Netflix And Start Making Art). From the We Are Makers. How to Weave Backstory into Your Novel Seamlessly. Eight Rules for Writing Fiction. From The New Yorker. Back in Cle...
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leo-walsh.com | Leo's Blog: June 2013
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Scratch my Back, I'll Scratch Yours. Scratch my back, Ill scratch yours. The amazing social power of Reciprocity. 2 In the Series Applied Social Psychology. By Leo Walsh. What makes Cognitive Science and Social Psychology fascinating to me is that we are very much hard wired to behave in almost scripted ways. There are itches that, try as we may, we have to scratch. Some of it is how we were raised, but a solid majority seems to be inherited. . I The case of the Hare Krisnas.
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leo-walsh.com | Leo's Blog: Overvaluing Our Creations
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Friday, June 21, 2013. I luv my Edditer (Source: Blogspot. How the "IKEA Effect" illustrates why writers need editors. Behavioral Economist Dan Ariely, in his book The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic. Tells of an concept dubbed " The IKEA Effect. Which means that we overvalue what we make. Even when we assemble pre-fabricated parts - like IKEA furniture. Is that economic humans are rational. And calculate the " maximal utility. The experimenter, and his subject, Patsy.
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leo-walsh.com | Leo's Blog: July 2013
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Monday, July 15, 2013. 7 Steps to Effective Copy-Editing. Most writers need an Intellgent Editer [misspellings intentional]. By Leo Walsh. You can find his science fiction novel even snow melts. Like most writers, I. It is boring, time-consuming – but necessary. Copy-editing requires detachment. Which is difficult, since we all tend to get attached to our work – an issue I addressed earlier using the lens of Behavioral Economics IKEA Effect. Took me a long time. I realized a truism:. 8220;I had no.
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leo-walsh.com | Leo's Blog: May 2013
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Friday, May 31, 2013. Write As If Your Life Depended on It. I recently stumbled upon a short blog posting by marketing 2.0 guru Seth Godin called " As if your life depended on it. In my quest for information on effectively market my recently published novel, even snow melts. Ironically, Godin spoke to exactly what I was thinking about. Since there is a huge dichotomy between creating a work of art, and promoting it. Here is what Godin had to say (emphasis mine). Art is best done all in. Is on the line.
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leo-walsh.com | Leo's Blog: Writing Projects
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Working cover for Leo's newest novel. Image Neil S. Photography. My current project: " Livewire, Voodoo and the Lovestruck Kid. Livewire, Voodoo and the Lovestruck Kid. Is my current writing project. It is a novel of literary fiction with some fantasy elements. But the intent is closer to literary than pure genre fantasy. It was influenced by William Kennedy's bleak and haunting masterpiece, Ironweed. John Crowley's genre busting Little, Big. And Toni Morrison's Beloved. Back Cover Text (rough draft).
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leo-walsh.com | Leo's Blog: 7 Steps to Effective Copy-Editing
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Monday, July 15, 2013. 7 Steps to Effective Copy-Editing. Most writers need an Intellgent Editer [misspellings intentional]. You can find his science fiction novel even snow melts. Like most writers, I. It is boring, time-consuming – but necessary. Copy-editing requires detachment. Which is difficult, since we all tend to get attached to our work – an issue I addressed earlier using the lens of Behavioral Economics' IKEA Effect. Took me a long time. I realized a truism:. 8220;I had no. Fiction writers br...
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leo-walsh.com | Leo's Blog: How the West Was Won -- Blood Meridian
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013. How the West Was Won - Blood Meridian. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. I am really not sure of what I think about Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. But the way McCarthy writes about the cruelty is stark and evocative. He manages to bring a biblical cadence to the writing, while making his descriptions as stark and stripped-down as Hemingway. For instance. Is even more stark than Moby Dick. The Judge is also a cultured man - polyglot amo...
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leo-walsh.com | Leo's Blog: Scratch my Back, I'll Scratch Yours
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Scratch my Back, I'll Scratch Yours. Scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. The amazing social power of Reciprocity. 2 In the Series "Applied Social Psychology". What makes Cognitive Science and Social Psychology fascinating to me is that we are very much "hard wired" to behave in almost scripted ways. There are itches that, try as we may, we have to scratch. Some of it is how we were raised, but a solid majority seems to be inherited. I The case of the Hare Krisna's. The Hare Krisn...
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