Of Marxists & Bloggers: The Writer’s Manifesto
2Publishers used to try their best to keep trash off the market (unless they were particularly strapped for cash that year), or at least clean up the frightful grammatical atrocities most contemporary writers inflict on their readers. Now with the bittersweet advent of self-publishing and inhibited blogging, [...]
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“Shall Shock” How to exploit the shall/will dynamic duo.
“Shall Shock” How to exploit the shall/will dynamic duo. This is a brief grammar post I’m presenting at TheWritePractice.com, but I thought I’d test it out here. So feel free to proofread and make suggestions. Unless you are auditioning for a role in Downton Abbey, [...]
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Dissent: “The Indomitable Andrew Smidt”
The submission to a writing competition each month usually ends up as an eBook. But I thought I’d just post it for your enjoyment. The topic was “Dissent.” This is a true story–as I remember it “The Indomitable Andrew Smidt” I was a [...]
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The Preacher’s Payday – Available on Amazon!
Finally The Preacher’s Payday has arrived. Well, not the actual Day, just the book about it. Giddy with delight, and basking in God’s graciousness to me, I got to grasp in my hand a copy of my first (Lord willing) published book. In seminary I [...]
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Redeeming Dimitri: eBook Giveaway
As always the eBook is a gift to all subscribers to Café Seminoid, and was delivered to their inboxes as a surprise today. (If it hasn’t, please mail a request to admin@clintarcher.com)
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‘Love in a Time of Measles’ – a story that showed up late
February’s topic at The Write Practice competition was ‘Love,’ in honor of Valentine’s Day. I thought I had til the end of the month to submit it, so alas, I missed the deadline. But I didn’t want the little story to get all dressed up [...]
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Bait Your Hook: Craft an Irresistible Heading [IGT Blogging, Pt 4]
This is not my musings on the topic. This is the real deal. Remember I’m the head idiot in Idiot’s Guide to Blogging. But this stuff is genuine gold that comes from a professional Content Strategist service called Contently. com. But once you’ve started writing, [...]
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Publish or Perish… or Self-Publish
“Publish or perish” is the mantra of academia. I empathize with the impulse preachers have to extend their pulpits to the print media arena. When a person spends all week in the life-changing milieu of God’s eternal truth, there is a fire in his bones to share [...]
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