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	Do you have a published book? - Writing -Books, authors, composition, publishers, editors, novel... Not me. Not yet. Someone said never but, Someone said nobody would ever need a computer in their home either. I digress... My friend , Ken Kirby says
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still not ---I AM Not a Grammar freek

I offend. Or irritate most people. They don't like the way I write. My wife is always telling me she worries about me. Or if I get a haircut she says I just raised my perceived IQ.

Twice a month I go to a group and I've been going there for almost six years. We write and critique each other. But if you come long enough we will tell you your writing is great. I know they are lying. 

It's s a judicious lie... according to my great uncle Sam, on my wife's side. She said it doesn't count ....

If you are a wanna be writer...tell me a story ......let tell you what a great fiction writer you already are.      www.fictionworkout. com

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bluescityleon  Senior Member      Status: "educated not worthy" Edit (set 2 days ago) Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Illinois 2,359 posts, read 1,269,791 times Blog Entries: 3 Reputation: 315

I'm not a Grammarian I 'm am in search of a story. I'm writing a precis that does not care to much about rules if punctuation,, spelling, and other way back dropping dribble that trickles down from the HIGH and self proclaimed. My editor tells me when I 4-git to cross a T . He tells me when I leave out a jot or tittle. I concentrate on what people in my wiring group never learned. The unpublished teaching the unwashed, and un puncuated. I'm not preaching to the choir. I'm just playing jazz. ON THE STREET

Dialogue?

There are all kinds, but conversation is not always dialogue.

   Fiction ‘should’ be 20% dialogue. 25% 30% ???No no no... 

Put down that slide rule...  It’s your book, your story, your scenes, your characters, your styles, your voices. You need the right dialogue ...  to keep up the pace, to keep your story intriguing, mesmerizing, entrancing.

"Have I made myself clear?"

"The question one might ask is... Have you connected with your  reader?

This is mostly a place to write about writing. PLUS life and death.

Next Year............2014 Happy.
Thurs, 13th ,March.
*Who"e got time for HAPPY?
 *The stock mentioned , DDD fell like I was afraid of when I took my measly profit.
*I have opened a very small position 03/01/14 Put I think things are different so I'm Just watching.

US STOCK WATCHER

DDD......... that's my best stock position as of 11/11/13.

Check it out , but do not buy it because of what I say.

I found it on the Motley Fool. I used to sell a stock as soon as it moved  like this one.

Now I'm learning to play it like a big fish.

The stock that will perform like Priceline....
A keeper, to hold 3-10 years.

The Motley Fool and study, are convincing me this is possible, and even likely. Not that
they are paying me to say this..

.....or that I'm some kind of expert.
The market is like trying to win a Teddy Bear  at a carnival...sometimes. It's also like farming...you have to be smart, get good advise, study, practice and be patient.

I've watched all my life I saw experts strike out. Finding someone I value as an adviser is
a miracle in my world. And in my world I look for miracles and inspired ideas.

A good idea that works is a miracle. 

A good idea that works is a miracle. ..and you can quote me.

 update 11/20/13 I SOLD IT WITH A STOP LOSS ORDER.

 LEON from the blues city. Chicago, IL,USA.

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            The movie, Wanabees  is about a neighborhood of Italian youths coming of age in Brooklyn. Behind a warm web of love, kids playing in the streets, family and brotherhood and respect for the business of the rackets is  violence and law breaking. It is about survival and ancients truth, live by the sword... and the Americian struggle put into the perview of the good, bad and the wise. An American parable, now showing on Netflix and your  TV or computer and the web near you.  

Yes that's US Novelist.

whether you have pounded out 60 books or six pages you are a novelist if you have a book in mind. As long as you hold that dream, thought ----whatever  and however you retain it, you're in the special gaggle of spirit people, spirited people who are novelists. If you write with the dream or hope of being published you are one of US. US NOVELIST. so if I can preach to the choir say AMEN!