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Interview With David Snook: Author Of Growing Up Snook

I write because I love a good story, and every now and then I have a story good enough to share. Writing should be a pleasure, an exercise in creativity, even though it is often difficult. Writing can become art, but it should always entertain or captivate.

When I was in middle school. My math and science skills were so lacking that I needed something to bring up my grades, and I just so happened to find writing to my liking. Plus, I had a smoking-hot English teacher in 7th grade that I wanted to impress.

Summary: 

I write because I love a good story, and every now and then I have a story good enough to share. Writing should be a pleasure, an exercise in creativity, even though it is often difficult. Writing can become art, but it should always entertain or captivate.

Thu, 09/01/2011 - 3:47pm — Joseph Valentinetti
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Interview With Ronnie J. Smith The Author Of Poems From The Polar Circles

Briefly explain your philosophy of writing for us.

My philosophy about writing is twofold. First, the writer has to have something to say. The quality of that statement, that something, that underlying concept in the written work, will bear out through the complementary second part, "deliver in one's own voice". The quality of statement determines the writing's power. One's own voice determines the writing's authenticity, the truth and individuality.

When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer?

Summary: 

My philosophy about writing is twofold. First, the writer has to have something to say. The quality of that statement, that something, that underlying concept in the written work, will bear out through the complementary second part, "deliver in one's own voice". The quality of statement determines the writing's power.

Thu, 09/01/2011 - 3:38pm — Joseph Valentinetti
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Interview With Shelley Schadowsky Author Of The Moratorium of Anya

Thank you for doing this interview, Tell me, what brought you to writing?

I never considered myself a writer and attended college for Advertising and Graphic Design. Ultimately, As I have proven through experience and working along fellow novice authors as a book formatter, anyone can write. I believe we all have stories to tell, fictional and non-fictional depending on our ability to imagine or evaluate. In my case, I became a writer when I emerged from an extraordinary experience.

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I wrote this book the minute I began an adventure in my life. My book originated as a blog for follow adoptive parents to follow along in our journey to Ukraine. It wasn't until everything went wrong overseas that I took my thoughts offline and began writing my story as a healing process.

Thu, 09/01/2011 - 3:31pm — Joseph Valentinetti
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Interview With Robert Craven Author Of Get Lenin

I've always wanted to write in some form or other, but I suppose it was really in my teens. My mother had an old typewriter which I borrowed & on it I banged out a few short stories; a couple of them developed into a piece called 'The Chase' which I submitted to a writing competition. Receiving the letter telling me it would be published meant I must have been doing something right. I think I hawked that magazine around every pub in Dublin that year, showing it everyone!

Summary: 

I wrote this book after reading a few books about the Russian front in 1941 and the orders from Moscow to ship Lenin's mausoleum to the Urals. I thought it would make a good page-turner; the sort of book you'd buy before you check in & waiting for the boarding call.

Thu, 09/01/2011 - 3:23pm — Joseph Valentinetti
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The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster; Is Good-Enough Good Enough?

Before computers, when I would answer my ringing phone, it wasn’t unusual for the response to be, ‘Oh, you’re there. I was hoping to get your machine.’ Email relieved the awkwardness of accidentally being forced to confront another human being. It wasn’t perfect but it was good-enough.

Summary: 

Before computers, when I would answer my ringing phone, it wasn’t unusual for the response to be, ‘Oh, you’re there. I was hoping to get your machine.’ Email relieved the awkwardness of accidentally being forced to confront another human being. It wasn’t perfect but it was good-enough.

Sat, 08/20/2011 - 9:55am — Joseph Valentinetti