Incurable Disease of Writing

Welcome to the June 26, 2009 edition of Just Write. Writers and readers of all kinds will find something interesting in this week’s carnival. Get comfortable and surf through the links. Remember to show the blog owners we appreciate their hard work by commenting and socially bookmarking.

Book Reviews

Peter Jones presents Forced Federalism: Contemporary Challenges To Indigenous Nationhood posted at Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources.

Keira presents Review: Choices Meant for Gods by Sandy Lender posted at Love Romance Passion.

Peter Jones presents Midnight In Madrid: Another Excellent Thriller in the Russian Trilogy posted at Great New Books that Are a Must Read.

Jim Murdoch presents The Plains by Gerald Murnane posted at The Truth About Lies, saying, “The Plains is a dense story about a filmmaker who spends years researching a film on the seemingly featureless Australian outback and its people. In place of the salt-of-the-earth sheep farmers one might expect to inhabit central Australia the narrator encounters an idealised world filled with aesthetics and intellectuals; wealthy landowners divided into factions idly speculating on metaphysics; I don’t believe there’s a sheep in the whole book.”

GrrlScientist presents Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land posted at Living the Scientific Life, saying, “A review of the book by Nina Burleigh. This book describes one of the greatest hoaxes of all time as the author follows the path of several ancient biblical artifacts from illegal archaeological digs in Israel through shady antiquities markets and even into the display cases of several famous museums around the world.”

Encouragement for Writers

Mark David Gerson presents The Voice of Your Muse: Trust. Let Go. Leap. posted at The Voice of Your Muse, saying, “Trust, let go, leap: In writing as in life, it always works”

Freelance

Thursday Bram presents Personal Branding: What Writers Need To Know posted at thursdaybram.com.

Daniel Smyth presents When Writing Just Isn’t Enough posted at Daniel Smyth, saying, “Hi, I’ve recently found this site and thought I’d submit my latest blog post. I am fairly new to the freelance world and my blog is about my thoughts and experiences on being a self employed writer.

Thanks
Daniel Smyth”

Thursday Bram presents 4 Tips For Landing That First Client posted at thursdaybram.com.

Spencer Spellman presents How to Become a Freelance Writer…Take 2 posted at Freelance Writer Spencer Spellman – Freelance Writing Tips, saying, “Ongoing series on how to become a freelance writer”

Thursday Bram presents Do You Track Your Time? posted at thursdaybram.com.

Poetry/Poets

isabella mori presents who owns the poem? posted at change therapy, saying, “part of janet riehl’s blog book tour, this post and its comments muse about questions like, who owns the poem? who owns the story?”

Madeleine Begun Kane presents June Down The Drain (Limerick & Haiku) posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.

The Writing Life

Ginny Wiehardt presents How to Find a Writing Community posted at Fiction Writing on About.com, saying, “Though writing itself is a solitary pursuit, the writing life presents many opportunities for community. In fact, a writing community can be an essential element in a writing career. Other writers offer invaluable feedback, publishing tips, and post-rejection sympathy. But how do you go about finding a writing community?”

Writing Mechanics

Jim Murdoch presents What does a poem do? posted at The Truth About Lies, saying, “In this article I take five poems that have just been published and deconstruct them to see just exactly what the basic functions of poetry are. Included in the five are a poem with no poetry in it, a poem that consists solely of metre and a poem whose sole purpose is to waste your time.”

Writing Projects/Prompts

Christina M. Rau presents Unprotesting posted at The Unromancing Of Roma, saying, “Here’s chicklit on a blog.”

Writing Resources

Jon Bard presents Unique Tool For Writers: Wordle posted at Children’s Writing Web Journal.

Writing Tips

Ram Raghavan presents How to overcome writer’s block posted at ramraghav.com, saying, “A few simple tips for overcoming writer’s block”

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