Tag Archives: Junk journalism

The Friday Fishwrap Celebrates Summer!

Posted on 6 July 2012 by Gwendolyn McIntyre

Best Wishes, Dear George: The BBC Trust has chosen George Entwistle as it’s new Director General. To thatwe say Huzzah! Despite the many and varied challenges he will be facing, the Friday Fishwrap thinks this is a brilliant move on the … Continue reading →

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The Friday Fishwrap Goes For A Song

Posted on 15 June 2012 by Gwendolyn McIntyre

‎“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” ~Victor Hugo Writing may be a solitary endeavour, but rarely is it a silent one, not even when you’re sitting in a great library. … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: On Writing

Posted on 11 June 2012 by Gwendolyn McIntyre

If this is a writers Blog, why don’t you write about writing? So goes the sixty-four thousand dollar question, which I was asked over this past weekend for about the sixty-four thousandth time. Simple answer? I’m too busy…. and that really … Continue reading →

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The Friday Fishwrap: Remembers When

Posted on 8 June 2012 by Gwendolyn McIntyre

This has been a week to remember the past and look forward to the future. On Tuesday, June fifth, 2012 we said a sad farewell to a great author. Ray Bradbury was 91 years old. Although he is remembered most for … Continue reading →

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Monday Madness: How to Succeed In Publishing Without Really Trying?

Posted on 4 June 2012 by Gwendolyn McIntyre

I Heard It Through The Grapevine: At BEA 2012, Bowker vice-president for publishing services Kelly Gallagher released their newest self-published books figures. For 2011, the number of self-published titles (based on ISBNs) was 211,269. The numbers for 2010 were 133,036. Two Hundred … Continue reading →

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Just My Pure Dumb Luck

Posted on 28 April 2012 by Gwendolyn McIntyre

“We’re playing Author Tag, and you’re it.” My reaction? Yeah, right… like I have time to play when my world is crumbling and crashing down around me. When the fate of the free world, not to mention several deadlines are … Continue reading →

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The Friday Fishwrap Is A Stinker

Posted on 27 April 2012 by Gwendolyn McIntyre

Chapter 2: Redo Fphen, Scriptmistress The bell in the city watch tower began to toll seven when Redo Fphen took her place, laying before her an array of pinned pages. She took a drink from a large mug with the … Continue reading →

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LIke Shooting Fish In A Barrel: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics

Posted on 14 February 2012 by Gwendolyn McIntyre

According to a report on Galleycat this morning, there are 335,924 people on LinkedIn who list “blogging” as one of their skills. They also have 1.5 million users who have listed “writing” as a skill while 824,000 added “editing” and … Continue reading →

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Mondays Musings

Posted on 13 February 2012 by Gwendolyn McIntyre

A recent article on eWeek about Google paying for well-researched problems with its Chrome browser got me thinking about the appalling state of eBooks these days. From their atrocious spelling and grammatical errors to the kluged-together plots, to story-lines that seem cut and pasted from a half-dozen different … Continue reading →

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Welcome to PagesForSmallWages.com

Posted on 10 February 2012 by Gwendolyn McIntyre

For the past five years, content of the Pages For Small Wages blogging experiment have been distributed across the web on blogs at WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, Tumblr , OFW, The Writers Playground, Twitter, Facebook and other places too numerous to mention. Then, this past month, Pages For Small Wages made its move to its own … Continue reading →