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Introducing Russell Bittner

August 7, 2009

Russell Bittner is a New York-based writer, whose collection Stories in the Key of C – Minor is being published by Faraway this month.  To allow Russell Bittner to introduce himself to our readers, we asked him to describe his writing career.
 
There’s my “career,” Daniel, and then there’s my career.  The first is what enables [...]

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Silent Signs by Olga Zilberbourg

May 28, 2009

My sister Zoe, a travel writer, had just returned to New York City from Tel-Aviv or Riga or St. Petersburg when somebody told her I had three months left to live. The news struck Zoe as rather odd: nobody at the headquarters of the travel publishing firm where we both work could trace the source [...]

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Short Story Contest Voting

April 13, 2009

In my continuing series on Six Sentences and Joseph Grant, I encourage you all to head over to http://sixofthemonthmar09.blogspot.com/, where voting is going on for the “six of the month”, a monthly contest to select the best story of six sentences.  Our friend Joseph Grant has a story up, “The Incongruous Man”, with a hint [...]

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Six Sentences Book

April 12, 2009

The creative writing community Six Sentences, which I’ve posted about before, has just released a book.  This book is an anthology of “sixes”–stories only six sentences in length–and it features work by none other than Faraway contributor Joseph Grant (who writes me just about everyday letting me know that something else of his has been published–prolific bastard!).  [...]

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Demand Growing For Print-On-Demand

April 6, 2009

There’s an article on CNN.com today about the growing demand and popularity for web-based print-on-demand services.  If you remember, late last year Faraway published the novella Doing the Dead by K.C. Wilson via Lulu.com.  Now, because of the economic downturn, more and more people are turning to services like Lulu and Author Solutions.
Traditionally, self-publishing has [...]

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Excerpt on 6 Sentences

March 15, 2009

I was introduced to a website called 6 Sentences by Joseph Grant, a prolific writer whose work has appeared in Faraway.  In lieu of new work on Faraway, I present to you a six sentence-long excerpt of my novel-to-be: Sail excerpt.  It contains the longest sentence I’ve ever written, a matter of pride with me, [...]

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Revisionist Photos

January 11, 2009

I just stumbled across an amazing website, http://www.revisionistphotos.com/, where photoshoppers set out to remove “the horros of the Third Reich from the pages of history.”  So, for instance, we go from this . . .
to this . . .
This . . .

to this . . .  

The point is that history cannot be changed or rewritten [...]

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Another great reason to get on board with NaNoWriMo

November 12, 2008

I just read this update from NaNoWriMo, which has me even more excited to finish:
As a 2008 winner of NaNoWriMo, you will be eligible to receive a free proof copy of your trade paperback book. Details will be posted here and on the “I Wrote a Novel, Now What?” page on December 1.
This offer is [...]

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Non-fiction Piece in Pens on Fire

November 11, 2008

File this under self-promotion.  A non-fiction article I wrote for the very first issue of Faraway, “My Breakthrough,” is now appearing at the online literary journal Pens on Fire.  The article is about a mental leap forward that I made last year, when my writing output increased a few hundred-fold.  My secret?  You’ll have to read [...]

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Chinese Democracy Online!

October 22, 2008

The long-awaited and oft-rumored, fourteen-years-in-the-making Guns N’ Roses album Chinese Democracy is finally heading to stores this November, and today saw the release of the first single, “Chinese Democracy.”  You can here it on the radio, or click here to stream it now.  I personally don’t think this is the best track from the album, [...]

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NaNoWriMo Profile

October 21, 2008

Just to bring myself one step closer to actually doing this National Novel Writing Month next month, I’ve created a profile on the NaNoWriMo website, www.nanowrimo.org.  You can find my profile here: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/419938.  Add me as a writing buddy and we can try to keep each other on track.  I’ll be trying to complete my [...]

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Fun with English . . .

October 18, 2008

. . . or should I say, Engrish?  The kind folks over at www.Engrish.com have collected a plethora of poorly-translated signs, products, cards, you name it, from other countries that have me rolling on the floor laughing. 
Take this menu, for a fine restaurant serving “finger” foods:

Or this lovely shirt, which reminds us what freedom really means:

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View Faraway as never before!

October 15, 2008

Get your own – Open publication

Bookmark Faraway on www.Issuu.com to view all of our publications in an awesome new format.  And be sure to check back soon for new works like. . .

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NaNoWriMo

October 12, 2008

November is National Novel Writing Month!  I’ve been hearing about this event for a few years, but never really looked into it.  The challenge is to write 50,000 words between November 1 and midnight November 30.  The emphasis is on quantity, not quality.  I don’t know that I have time to do this, but some [...]

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Update to bio for Sean Wiebe –link corrected

October 2, 2008

Sean Wiebe is an assistant professor of language and literacy at the university of Prince Edward Island (http://www.upei.ca/education/wiebe).  His papers and poetry appear in a variety of journals and book chapters in the areas of the arts, teacher education and curriculum studies. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Journal of Educational Thought, [...]

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Mark It Zero, Dude

September 17, 2008

It’s never too early to start thinking about buying me Christmas presents.  We that in mind, please visit this site: http://www.80stees.com/pages/t-shirts/Big-Lebowski-t-shirts.asp?referer=gog-paid.  I’m a medium.
This design in particular I thought was funny, if nonsensical, insomuch as it adorns a t-shirt.

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Orwell in Spain!

September 8, 2008

I‘m excited to update an earlier post on the digital publication of the George Orwell diaries 70 years to the day after they were written.  As of a few days ago, George Orwell arrived in Spain on a collision course that will soon see him fighting on the side of communist forces against Franco’s fascists, [...]

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Good Website For Writers

September 2, 2008

Here’s a website all you aspiring writers out there ought to bookmark: http://www.duotrope.com/index.aspx.
Duotrope is basically a search engine listing thousands of publications, both in print and online, that accept submissions for free, with details about them.  You can see Faraway’s listing here: http://www.duotrope.com/market_3088.aspx.  This site can be very helpful when trying to find the right [...]

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How Many of You Are There?

August 29, 2008

http://howmanyofme.com

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Now Is The Time To Make Justice A Reality

August 28, 2008

Today marks the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech. Take a few moments to enjoy one of the seminal speeches of world history by one of America’s greatest heroes.

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