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Comment on Book Review: Justinian’s Flea by Mome Rath

Mome Rath — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:36:12 +0000

Sounds intriguing - I haven’t gotten to too many non-fiction books this year (outside of a history of Chinese food in America and a WWII character study of Roosevelt and Churchill). I’ll have to put this book onto my “to read” list. Hope you and the family are doing well!

Comment on Book Review: God Gave Us Heaven by nessili

nessili — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:35:02 +0000

PDF–

I understand that, and you understand that, but my three-year old daughter doesn’t. Not yet. I wasn’t saying that the book wasn’t correct in the hope it offered, nor in the Truth it was sharing, just that the manner in which it came across (to me anyway) was…for lack of a better term, trite. It was still a good book–which I think I stated. Just not one that I would read night after night. Unlike the other two.

Comment on Book Review: God Gave Us Heaven by pdf collection

pdf collection — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:47:20 +0000

The dedication for this book is to a child that died at the age of six, bringing a wistful pause before the book begins. This is a special story dedicated to the hope Christians have in an assurance of a future in Heaven. The story states that while physical death is unavoidable in a fallen world, God offers Christians the Hope of a bridge to Him through Jesus.

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Book Review: God Gave Us Heaven — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:53:13 +0000

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Comment on Book Reviews: God Loves Me More Than That and When God Created My Toes by Book Reviews: God Loves Me More Than That and When God Created My Toes : blog edvdbox

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:49:14 +0000

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Comment on WriteWay? Wrong way. by Fabrizio Ottaviani

Fabrizio Ottaviani — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:49:41 +0000

Hello,
I’m an italian writer and journalist; and I apologize for my miserable English. I wrote 2 books whith WriteWay, and I’m writing a third. Well, i’ve tried 10 or 12 softwares for writers, and for me WriteWay is the best software available. When I’m writing a novel I need: a tree-structure on the left, for I need to pass from a scene to another; and for I always like to look at the series of scenes, uno obtutu. Secondly, a series of card that reminds me to the different questions that I have to solve in each scene. Cue cards can do just one thing at time (and is an exellent outliner), WriteWay at the same time. Occasionaly I take a look at the characters backstory, and I agree, it’s irritating that WW can’t have book window and characters window both open, but for me is a tolerable problem. Third, I don’t know any software that makes a word count usage and anaysis in a better way that WW does. To fix repetitions, is simply perfect.
Last question, templates. In fact, they are not easy to use. But a little trick, maybe, can help. First, modify templates, so they fit to your needs; second, open a new scene. The “new” templates are there.
For a good synopsis, give a detailed name to each scene, I don’t need nothing different. Dont’ you like the cards? They vanish in a clik. WW is not easy to use? Well, and Dramatica, the ultimate Summa theologica, is easy?

Fabrizio

Comment on Book Review: Skid by Avid fiction book reader

Avid fiction book reader — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:47:04 +0000

I would have to agree with you, contemporary fiction is so poppy these days that it is really hard to sink your teeth into a novel. I prefer the old classic writers - they developed characters and scenes much better. However, a good contemporary thriller is hard to beat when you are trying to kill an evening.

Comment on Nancy Drew Did What? by nessili

nessili — Fri, 23 May 2008 23:09:12 +0000

Thanks Leslie!

I’ve been so lax on this blog recently, concentrating more on my sewing blog. When I got your comment, I went back and reread some of my old posts. Which made me realize I rather miss it. So thank you for the compliment, and for getting me back into book blogging

Comment on Nancy Drew Did What? by Leslie

Leslie — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:00:04 +0000

You wrote this blog post several years ago - but that doesn’t matter. You have me laughing up a storm. Especially about the Trixie fanfic. I look forward to reading some of your other posts.

Comment on WriteWay? Wrong way. by nessili

nessili — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:58:41 +0000

Hello Stacey!

Hmmm, I’ll have to try SuperNoteCard out. My reward for finishing up a slew of cushions (I’m recovering them for a friend) is to spend a whole day doing nothing but organizing my writing world/s. Perhaps I’ll play with it then.

What kind of scene sketch template were you looking for? Did you find one?

Thanks for dropping by!

–nessili