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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Posted by J. Louise Larson at 11:47 AM
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J. Louise Larson online

  • Bee Worried: Colony Collapse Disorder piece (Houston Chronicle)
  • Buying Jack Ruby's Cabin (Dallas Morning News)
  • Hip Fell's Point, MD (AirTran's in-flight magazine)
  • The oldest Big Sister in the world (Dallas Morning News)
  • Darian Smith, a Chicken Soup author at 13 (Dallas Morning News)
  • The refurbished historic Rogers Hotel (scroll down)
  • A new cutting-edge high school sponsored by Bill Gates (Dallas Morning News)
  • Businesses struggling after Hurricane Katrina (Entrepreneur Magazine)
  • Getting your product on retail shelves (Entrepreneur)
  • Business After the Storm of Hurricane Katrina from Amazon
  • Managing change (Business.com)
  • Business how-to guides from Business.com

Some favorite resources for writers

  • On Writing Humor by Jan Hornung
  • Guide to Grammar and Writing
  • Absolute Write
  • Publishers Lunch free weekly publishing news

Quotes on writing

  • "the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar." Stephen King quotes
  • Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. -- Walter Bagehot
  • Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had. -- Raymond E. Feist
  • "Read, read, read. Read everything. … Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! Then write." -- William Faulkner
  • The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way. - Richard Harding Davis