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Fun Fridays – September 17, 2021

By Steve Laubeon September 17, 2021
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TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY is September 19.

In preparation for this upcoming day, I’ve provided some completely unoriginal pirate jokes for your fun and enjoyment.

Convert your own book into pirate-speak at this translator site: Pirate Monkeyness.

Please do not tell your pastor or priest to give their Sunday sermon like a pirate. There is all sorts of wrong in that. For “the wages o’ sin be death.”

Enjoy:

How do pirates know that they are pirates?
They think, therefore they ARRRR!!!!!

How do pirates prefer to communicate?
Aye to aye!

Why couldn’t the pirates play cards?
Because the captain was standing on the deck!

How do ye turn a pirate furious?
Take away the “p.”

What’s a pirate’s favorite part of a song?
The hook!

What do pirates do on Black Friday?
Shop the sails!

How much did the pirate pay for his new boat?
An arm and a leg.

Why type of socks do pirates wear?
Arrrrgyle.

To err is human.
To arr is pirate.

A pirate goes to the doctor to have the spots on his arm examined.
The doctor says: “They’re benign.”
The pirate replies: “No, no doc, there be eleven. I counted them before I came here.”

If ye wants t’ add anythin’, we dare ye t’ do so below.

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Supply Chain Blues

By Steve Laubeon September 13, 2021
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Two weeks ago I wrote of the Slushpile Blues. Today is another scintillating topic. Supply chain blues. By “supply chain” I mean the various steps along the way for a vendor to have a final product to sell to a consumer. For electronics, like your phone, it means collecting various pieces before assembly: the battery, the camera lens, the transistors, the memory chip, the glass, and more. If any …

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Category: Book Business

Never Forget

By Steve Laubeon September 11, 2021
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Category: Personal

Fun Fridays – September 10, 2021

By Steve Laubeon September 10, 2021
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Enjoy the delightful storytelling of Andy Andrews. Afterward? Impress your friends with your own versions. The lesson here? There are many ways to sing a tale, but only one is the way the author intended. But it’s still okay to laugh. (If you cannot see the embedded video in your newsletter email, please click the headline and go directly to our site to view it.)

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Category: Fun Fridays

Fun Fridays – September 3, 2021

By Steve Laubeon September 3, 2021
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Todays’ video is both hilarious and sad because it pokes at the “look at me” nature of social media! I laughed so hard the first time I watched it. (Which does suggest multiple viewings.) Enjoy! Oh, and try not to make a similar connection to your writing life.. . . . ahem. (If you cannot see the embedded video in your newsletter email, please click the headline and go directly …

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Singing the Slushpile Blues

By Steve Laubeon August 30, 2021
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by Steve Laube

The unsolicited pile of proposals in my office (aka "the slushpile) taunts me every day.

"Come over here!" it says, tantalizing me with immanent possibilities. I say to myself, "Maybe it will be the next one I look at. That will be 'The One.'"

I've been told that many of you enjoy hearing some of the offbeat letters or intriguing proposals I see. Here is a sampling from …

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Category: Book Proposals, Creativity, HumorTag: Humor, slushpile

Fun Fridays – August 27, 2021

By Steve Laubeon August 27, 2021
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Today is a 10-minute video talking (rather rapidly) about a number of strange borders in the United States and how they came to be. Do any of you live near places like these? Is it a big deal in your community or only a conversation piece?I read of a library that is split with one half in Canada and the other in the United States (article click here). Do you need a passport to go over to the …

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Category: Fun Fridays

Need Help Writing Your Pitch?

By Steve Laubeon August 23, 2021
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Today’s post is a bit of silly fun. Why not? We are nearing the end of summer and your kids may already be back in school. Need help creating the pitch for your book? It is a common thought that there is a formula for the pitch of a new book. (It’s sort of true.) I’ve been inspired by the article found on the Electric Lit website from March 28, 2019. Visit their page and website. …

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Category: The Writing Life

Fun Fridays – August 20, 2021

By Steve Laubeon August 20, 2021
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Enjoy the jump-rope talent of World Champion, Adrienn Banhegyi. Breathtaking! Do you see yourself as a writer jumping over various obstacles? Sometimes over and over again? But with each jump, the next one is “easier” and less of a challenge. But you have to start somewhere! (If you cannot see the embedded video in your newsletter email, please click the headline and go directly to our …

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Books Are Signposts Along the Way

By Steve Laubeon August 16, 2021
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By Steve Laube

The novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is a series of stories linked together in the small town of Macondo in South America. It is surrounded by a swamp and thus is known for its isolation.

One day the town was infected by a plague which causes insomnia. The people of the town were not unhappy at first …

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Category: Art, Craft, Creativity, Writing CraftTag: Craft, Creativity, Signs
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