https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/MiriamSPia/fiction philosophy questions for readers feedback authorhourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/MiriamSPia/630491Unlike many a crime fiction novel this one doesn't surround a murder. Its based on a fictional case of a problem the city of Indianapolis has suffered honest anxiety about in actual fact. The problem is meth amphetimine: often known simply as crystal meth or speed. Its associated with the color...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/MiriamSPia/630490Today, I have received the good news that Demand Studios - a giant warehouse for freelancers especially writers, has accepted a first article from me. Don't get me wrong, I would work for BookRags again - at least, that's now...but after over 1.5 years I don't. I did over 50 book summaries for...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/MiriamSPia/630092Here is today's real life source of anxiety. I'm going to rephrase it so that you understand something that has happened to a lot of people. Its the way you feel when the paperwork and the facts aren't entirely aligned. In my own case it is the experience of knowing that what the online service...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/MiriamSPia/629772The mood of the day is rambling psychobabble more so than the pure, refined sense of a clearly focusssed blog entry. Why is that? I don't know. What I do know is that the other night I found a fiction story that I wrote over ten years ago and read it over. Even though it was possible for me to...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/MiriamSPia/629671Over at Scribd, there are now 32 reads on the novel. The format has been improved with a title page that has nothing to do with Jake Elkiss who has asked me not to use his image - found at Deviant Art.com for the book cover. Still working to improve what is available to readers. You can buy hard...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/MiriamSPia/629517Blog Guilt is when you had promised your readers, implicitly that you would write to them every day, but then you skip a few days and try to believe that it was okay that you did. Well, it wasn't. What's happened after all that time? Crime Space, LinkedIn, CafePress, Dungeons & Dragons, a few...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/MiriamSPia/629054Reply by Karen Dionne 18 minutes ago At the private writers discussion group I oversee, I recently took an informal poll asking members how they found their agent. Of those who responded, 5 got their agent through a referral 5 got their agent by meeting them at a conference 5 got their agent via...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/MiriamSPia/628046This is about personal discipline since it would not really be okay? for readers to come here to get their fill of the blog only to find that there is nothing here. Today is about breaking new ground with old friends and making other headway regarding the ability to speak relatively freely and...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/MiriamSPia/627915I am not the author of the brief writing below. That was actually written by professional journalists....well, that doesn't make sense as a comparison because I write for pay and the truth is that I do a little journalistic writing, but not much compared to newspaper and magazine stabled writers....https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/MiriamSPia/627144Today the primary issues have been financial and stress related to finances. I blame not still having a lover who provides for me at least as well as my 3rd husband and I blame myself for not having targeted a financially secure replacement and I blame myself for not having made my income go up a...