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Wordsmiths

Book Building: Architecture Techniques for Writers

blueprint for a book

by Greg I. Hamilton on November 17, 2010

If your book is more humble than this concept of a glass-and-steel monolith that pierces the clouds and makes them cry, then there are still architectural and feng shui principles that should inform your work. I don’t believe a home is a valid analogy. You will not live in your book. …

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Phlegmy, Unshaven, and Fragrant

by Greg I. Hamilton on June 1, 2010

a mongrel

The opening of this book contains an extended account of one Clayton, “phlegmy, unshaven, and fragrant in his ordinary fashion,” which, while not an image I compare to your own, might nevertheless be taken as an indelicate assumption …

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Hopscotch Snoozebutton Dreaming

snoozebutton

by Greg I. Hamilton on December 8, 2009

… our dreams are not artful expressions of inner meaning, but rather our mind’s nightly trip to the crapper to excrete useless thoughts …

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