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NorthernPros.com: Taking the Lead
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Monday, May 07, 2007. You pick up a newspaper. You buy a magazine. You open a new book. The first sentence, the first paragraph, these are the most important lines in any of the articles, the beginning of the story. The question is how to write an incredible lead. How do you pen an opening that includes and dissolves the body of information being disseminated to its inevitable end? Here are a couple of good first lines:. Libra - Don DeLillo. Calories 2,100, calories used up by shags 600, so total calorie...
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NorthernPros.com: 4/15/07 - 4/22/07
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Monday, April 16, 2007. Finding Poetry in the Everyday. What is poetry but wonderment? A convergence of displaced words that describe the understanding of a need for speech as a response to a stimulus that is all but discernable in its essence of meaning by a vocabulary determined centuries before the potential item of discernment manifested into a poem. Capiche? But this isn’t an article about how-to write poems. This is a commentary on inspiration. Inspiration, wonderment, being human are all very much...
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NorthernPros.com: 5/13/07 - 5/20/07
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Monday, May 14, 2007. Found Novel Notes, part two. As I finish reading the last words of a found novel and notes, I am reminded of the writing of those last words. How the fire burned in the fireplace. The intensity of emotion that passed as I realized there was no going back to it. The story was finished. Complete. I could go on, but I won’t. I should edit it, but will I? I have become exceedingly accurate at doing this. Each scene is cut to the essence. Soon enough, there is no filler. The stor...In my...
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NorthernPros.com: Finding Poetry in the Everyday
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Monday, April 16, 2007. Finding Poetry in the Everyday. What is poetry but wonderment? A convergence of displaced words that describe the understanding of a need for speech as a response to a stimulus that is all but discernable in its essence of meaning by a vocabulary determined centuries before the potential item of discernment manifested into a poem. Capiche? But this isn’t an article about how-to write poems. This is a commentary on inspiration. Inspiration, wonderment, being human are all very much...
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NorthernPros.com: 2/25/07 - 3/4/07
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Monday, February 26, 2007. A commentary, rather than an article, on Google. In the past five years or so since I was introduced to Google, I have come to appreciate and respect its systems that search for content based on your desired content search, and I have come to use their administrative services (often free) to great satisfaction. Google saw through the curtain. Literally. And they peeked. Unnerving in a way …. I am currently reading The Search, How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Busin...
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NorthernPros.com: Found: First Novel Notes, part one
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Monday, May 14, 2007. Found: First Novel Notes, part one. Recently, I was cleaning out a small room in the house so I might better utilize it for something other than storage of random art things and wine. In doing so, I came across a box containing notes and magazine clippings and books and memorabilia I had collected. The theme of the items in the box was a novel, my first attempt at one at least. Please note at this time: The novel was not also in the box. I found myself waxing. Even now, the steps ar...
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NorthernPros.com: CLMP + NorthernPros = Bright Future
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Monday, March 19, 2007. CLMP NorthernPros = Bright Future. NorthernPros begins this week on the heels of an announcement by The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses that NorthernPros and Cadillac Cicatrix have been accepted into the prestigious fold of independent literary journals worthy of the CLMP (i.e. Good Housekeeping) seal of approval. Being a part of this organization is a big step for NorthernPros Creations. Some of you might recall the old days, when NP was a fledgling chapbook publisher i...
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NorthernPros.com: 3/18/07 - 3/25/07
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Monday, March 19, 2007. Finding Projects To Achieve Success. In 1987 the movie The Secret of My Success starring Michael J Fox hit theatres. The plot unfolds around a young mailroom clerk, Brantly, who mistakenly answers a telephone when he shouldn't, which leads him to proving his metal in a major company and eventually taking over the top seat and winning the woman. Much like when you are lost in the woods, the best thing to do is focus. Make a list of your expertise, your skills, etc. Take int...One d...
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NorthernPros.com: Found: First Novel Notes, part one
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Monday, May 07, 2007. Found: First Novel Notes, part one. Recently, I was cleaning out a small room in the house so I might better utilize it for something other than storage of random art things and wine. In doing so, I came across a box containing notes and magazine clippings and books and memorabilia I had collected. The theme of the items in the box was a novel, my first attempt at one at least. Please note at this time: The novel was not also in the box. I found myself waxing. Even now, the steps ar...
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NorthernPros.com: Shameless Promotion
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Monday, May 21, 2007. I am going to take this opportunity to shamelessly promote a project that two of our staff memmbers are, and have been, a part of for the past few years - the Monterey County Film Commission's twelfth-annual Screenplay Competition. Here's a little information about the contest. Every year, the MCFC awards aspiring screenwriters a monetary grand prize and promotional opportunities for their winning feature-length screenplays. In addition to increasing the monetary awards for this yea...
