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  • Originally posted on Hazy Shades of Me: I like punctuation…I love words. And, I take great pleasure pushing the limits in the ways that I use them. And although I have an aversion to puzzles, I enjoy writing immensely, undeterred by the fact that puzzling is exactly what I’m doing while assembling sentences. Now, I’ve…

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  • The Hands of My Mother

    The Hands of My Mother

    By P.C. Zick – @PCZick Note: My mother died in February of 1998. Several months later, I found myself mourning her death more than ever and decided I needed to do something to help me heal. I wrote an essay about the one thing that kept coming back to me while she lay dying. During…

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  • The More I Learn, the Less I Know

    By P.C. Zick – @PCZick I’m in a very high learning curve these days as I prepare to publish my first e-book, Live from the Road. Every time I read an article, I find one more thing I need to do. Yesterday I probably sifted through a dozen new things to add to my list.…

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  • Write that Novel

    “If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.” — Dashiell Hammett June 1924 Love this quote. Rachel Carson once said the writer…

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  • Important Message for Writers

    By P.C. Zick – @PCZick I highly recommend all writers read this blog by Rachelle Gardner. She’s an agent with Books and Such Literary Agency and her blog is a great source for published and unpublished authors.  Her advice is valuable for self-published and traditionally published authors. It’s also a resource for unpublished writers trying…

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  • Route 66 – Traveling the Mother Road

    Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink. Jack Kerouac By P.C. Zick – @PCZick It began one night over a couple of beers at a local bar. It took more than a year to plan and pull off. “You know what I’ve always…

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