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Good question regarding a count which omits certain words. http://www.anycount.com/ I shall inquire here: support@anycount.com

Smell-o-Taste-o-Feel-o-Vision will soon make all other media obsolete! Smetafelev is the acronym (just kidding... there is no such thing, to my knowledge)

Just the other week, I was watching the commentary/documentary on the making of Milan Kundera's "Unbearable Lightness of Being". The question of "why read the book" is raised there, in a sense. I was amazed to hear the director speak of Milan Kundera's open-minded attitude. Kundera said "Do...

How does one go about estimating the number of words in a manuscript? If think about this does not give you writers block, then I don't know what will. This question was raised today in a Yahoo Book & Literature chat room. Don’t go running there, expecting intelligent conversation. Most...

Here is another writer's forum to check out: http://www.writingforums.com/index.php I should post something there about TBF. It might attract some new members. I see a lot of activity there, and some interesting posts.

I have just joined and posted an introduction mentioning TBF and this thread at http://www.eliteskills.com which is a free site for writers

Here is the page of links where I am currently exploring workshops and tutorials: http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Creative_Writing/Workshops/Online/

I just now joined this free site: http://www.rateyourwriting.com/ryw2/mainMenu.do and posted an introduction, with a link to this thread, and a request for suggestions of on-line writing tutorials. Perhaps my post will attract one or two new members to TBF.

A wiser, older computer programmer commented to me in the 1980's: "A resume will list ten years of experience, but it is the same year ten times." Don't let your writer's resume be that sort, ten years from now. What I mean is, do not just write and write and write in this same fashion...

I have only found the time to work out two sentences, but I shall post now, to give you some ideas if you return tonight. I am hoping this interesting exercise will benefit me. You might try to imagine how various famous writers might approach this first page of your story. How would...

I see some things I like about this story. But, first, I shall give my reactions to various things I see that might be corrected or improved upon. I will take one or two paragraphs at a time. Hemingway once said that seven #2 pencils sharpened to stumps was the evidence of a good day's...

When ordering your Sitaram tee-shirts and coffee mugs, please allow six to eight weeks for delivery. (nota bene: this is a joke*)

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/warner-susan/wide/wide-52.html First published: New York, G. P. Putnam, 1850. This edition: Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1892. CHAPTER LII. Hon. –Why didn't you show him up, blockhead? Butler.–Show him up, sir? With all my heart, sir...

Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind (link above) also point to this link on the dark side of Shel Silverstein http://www.banned-width.com/shel.html Silverstein wrote the moving children’s book The Giving Tree which is actually quite spiritual in nature. That book inspired the following...

It was meant to be a cruel joke. Glad you see the silver lining in my sinister cloud of evil. Muha ha ha ha ha! I shall rain on your parade yet!

I also found this interesting link during my Stephen Dixon search: http://www.sarahweinman.com/confessions/literary_minded/index.html Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind Crime fiction and more For example, the above link points to the following link...

Hmm... let me see.... Oh.. yes... here it is Click here

I just discovered this while searching on Stephen Dixon. It is an interesting site to browse. There is a fee for subscribing, but there is much to see at this site that is free. It might give you some ideas. http://www.one-story.com/index.php?page=about_us About the editors:

Here is a handy, all-in-one list of literary prizes/awards including: The Nobel Prize for Literature The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The National Book Awards for Fiction The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction The National Book Critics Circle Award The Booker Prize...

I just purchased a large paperback of Trilling's essays, entitled "The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent", edited and with an introduction by Leon Wieseltier. One of the essays is about Nabokov's Lolita written aroung 1958, only three years after Lolita was published. I searched in Google...