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In This Issue
Infosynthesis -
Law and Social Engineering
Story Asia -
Working on a Dream - self-publishing in Malaysia.
Jack's Fables -
Redemption
Storyteller's Nuts and
Bolts - The Disappearing Comma
Blow Your Own Trumpet! -
Articles for Storytellers
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What To Look For In
A Writing Mentor
Zodiac's Children
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Cancer's
Child
1000 Reviews
It Works by Ronald G. Miller
The Mee Street Chronicles by Frankie
Lennon
Ochre As The Earth by Sharanya
Manivannan
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Books about Storytelling
Magazines about Storytelling
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Paying Markets
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Volume 4, Issue 11 - 11 July 2007
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Law and Social Engineering
Law is a body of
rules and regulations that govern social, business, and other
conducts to promote well being of the people, order and good
governance in a given body or state. It rewards those who comply
with its provisions and punishes offenders. The law is usually set
by an authority, ruler or sovereign person or body, to be
administered in a given state, place or organization.
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 Working
on a dream - self-publishing in Malaysia
Since publication of
The Banana Leaf Men, I have been asked the same
question many times, “How much did it cost?” Also, I’ve been asked to share my
know-how about the publishing industry here in Malaysia, the most recent being a
request from
Sharanya Manivannan.
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Redemption
“LIFE AS WE KNOW IT ENDS TODAY” or words to that
effect was the headline dominating the newspapers.
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Storyteller's Nuts
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The Disappearing Comma
When is a comma
not a comma? When it’s missing! The most important job for a comma is to prevent
confusion for the reader. If a comma isn’t there, the reader may become lost.
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LadyBug, StoryBug – interview with Karen Chace
Excerpts ...
Karen: A
storyteller share a story? I thought you would never ask!
The Difference Between Heaven and Hell
Many years ago a wealthy man asked a wise Buddhist to see the difference between
Heaven and Hell. The wise man obliged and when the gates of Hell were thrown
open their eyes fell upon a magnificent hall. Before them lay a table set with
the finest china and crystal, each plate sumptuously filled with food and fruits
from the far corners of the world. Every goblet was filled to the brim with
sweet wine. Around the lavish table men and women sat, but their faces were
distorted in agony, their voices rang out in anguish, they were malnourished,
emaciated.
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StoryMaker - Interview with James Bonnet
Excerpts ...
James: I make
a distinction between storytelling and storymaking. Storytelling is the
retelling of a tale that already exists. Storymaking involves the invention and
creation of a new story. My work is primarily concerned with the creation of new
stories, either fiction or non-fiction, that will become story films or novels.
Applied to a film, one might say that the screenwriter is the storymaker and the
director is the storyteller, and sometimes the same person functions in both
capacities.
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Cancer's Child
Excerpts ...
Everyone always says that
Cancer’s children are moody and they grow up to be moody adults. I have to
disagree. All of the Cancers that I have ever met were rather stable
emotionally speaking.
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ARTICLES FOR STORYTELLERS
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Seven Ways To Connect
Your Writing And Your Life
During the
twenty years I’ve taught writing, hundreds of students have
expressed the belief that success and personal integrity are
mutually exclusive.
The Lifewriting™ approach to fiction suggests that not only do these
two qualities overlap, but that the safest, surest, most satisfying
path to discovering your true voice, your deepest creative flow, and
ultimately crafting the most satisfying career, is to be true to
yourself.
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It Works
by Ronald G. Miller
Excerpts ...
It Works is a non-fiction piece of work and can
safely be categorised under the self-help genre. On the
back cover of the book, it is stated that Ronald Miller
‘shows us how to achieve all our dreams and desires
through’ mind power and goal setting, the process of
goal setting and tools and resources for successful goal
setting.
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The Mee Street Chronicles: Straight Up
Stories of a Black Woman's Life by Frankie Lennon
Excerpts ...
Autobiographies are a dime a dozen, and going by the
school of thought that everyone has a story in them,
ergo, everyone has an autobiography in them. But what
then makes a memoir powerful? Surely, the thoughts of
figures who have made significant achievements are of
interest to others.
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Ochre As The Earth by Sharanya
Manivannan
Excerpts ...
Sometimes I think you would have to be
absolutely androgynous not to want to make love to me.
As far as opening lines go, this one will forever stand out in my
mind. They were the ones uttered by Sharanya Manivannan during her solo show,
Ochre As The Earth.
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Noel
A gathering
for book lovers!
Singapore
Book Club
20 July 2007
(Fri)
7 p.m.
Earshot at
the Arts House (1 Old Parliament Lane)
Guests :
Singapore Literature Prize 2006 winners - Yong Shu Hoong & Cyril
Wong
Publishers
Writers Network
7 August
2007 (Tue)
7 p.m.
Play Den at
the Arts House (1 Old Parliament Lane)
Guest: Dilip
Mukerjea, Best-selling author of books in the Creative Brain
series
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