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Writing For Your Life
Honest, practical advice on the writer’s life for both aspiring and experienced authors and screenwriters, and an uncensored forum for provocative thought.
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Joel Eisenberg
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Aug 31
How an Iconic Horror Author Saved Me From the Streets and Inspired a Full-Time Writing Career
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Joel Eisenberg
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Writing For Your Life
Dec 13, 2021
A Personal Remembrance of My Friend, Anne Rice
Author’s Note
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Joel Eisenberg
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Writing For Your Life
Oct 15, 2021
Success and the Introverted Writer
A closetful of hidden talent won’t get you anywhere fast.
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Joel Eisenberg
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Jan 10, 2020
“I Don’t Like Sand”
Why the flawed “Star Wars” prequels are not only necessary, but well worth…
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Joel Eisenberg
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Writing For Your Life
Dec 7, 2020
A Few Words About Racism and Authors … Again
The late Roald Dahl’s past has returned to haunt his…
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Joel Eisenberg
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Writing For Your Life
Dec 4, 2020
How To Incorporate the Entire “Star Wars” Expanded Universe Into Canon
Disney, this can be done…
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Joel Eisenberg
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Writing For Your Life
Oct 21, 2020
Revisiting the Racism that Inspired One of the World’s Bestselling Crime Novels
The original title of Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None” is a stark reminder of ‘yesterday’s’ white supremacism.
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Joel Eisenberg
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Writing For Your Life
Oct 6, 2020
R.I.P. Harry Potter?
He was once the boy who lived. Have recent controversies surrounding his creator…
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Joel Eisenberg
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Writing For Your Life
Sep 29, 2020
Once Upon a Time I Worked With an Art Teacher Who Was a Big “Hellraiser” Fan …
Brooklyn, New York, was…
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Joel Eisenberg
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Writing For Your Life
Apr 22, 2020
Tolkien v Herbert
“Dune” and “The Lord of the Rings” are masterpieces of world-building and story. But…
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