Writing: “You expect far too much of a first sentence…”

16 Aug

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“You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.” 

~ LARRY McMURTRY

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The world’s most interesting astrologer: Fixed stars

16 Aug

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Alan Annand is an astrologer and writer of crime fiction, including his New Age Noir series featuring astrologer and palmist Axel Crowe, a criminal profiler with a horoscope.

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Writing: “You have to let a story go…”

15 Aug

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“There’s always a point where you have to let a story go. Art isn’t finished, as many people before me have pointed out, only abandoned. And eventually you abandon your new child and hope that you’ll get it right next time, or the time after that, and you never do.”

~ NEIL GAIMAN

See Uranus with our new telescope…

15 Aug

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eCard by Alan Annand, writer and astrologer.

Writing: “Forget every rule…”

14 Aug

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“Forget every rule Syd Field, Robert McKee or any other screenwriting guru ever taught you. Except one: Never be boring.”

~ DAVID MAMET

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Remember Eskimo Pie…?

14 Aug

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eCard by Alan Annand, writer and astrologer.

Asian wisdom: Give a man a fish…

13 Aug

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Asian Wisdom Ecards by Alan Annand, writer and astrologer.

The world’s most interesting astrologer: bi-quintiles

10 Aug

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Alan Annand is an astrologer and writer of crime fiction, including his New Age Noir series featuring astrologer and palmist Axel Crowe, a criminal profiler with a horoscope.

Read reviews for Scorpio Rising, buy it at:

Amazon, Apple, Barnes&Noble, Smashwords

Alan Varanasi @ 50%

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Crimea River

8 Aug

Crimea River

The Edge (b. August 8): “I’m a musician, not a gunslinger.”

8 Aug

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“Ultimately I’m interested in music. I’m a musician. I’m not a gunslinger. That’s the difference between what I do and what a lot of guitar heroes do.”

~ The Edge, b. 8 August 1961

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