Heartache

Erin Moran, on her great album "A Girl Called Eddy," sings her haunting song "Heartache." (The link provides audio only, no video.)

More Resources for Writers - How to Get Paid Fairly for Your Work and All That Boring Stuff

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

 Kristine Kathryn Rusch explains how to get paid fairly for your work, and all that boring financial stuff writers don't care about.

Setting the Scene

Here's a good example of how to set the scene.  It's the beginning of Margery Allingham's very entertaining mystery/thriller "Coroner's Pidgin."  Note the presence of the dreaded description paragraph which is so loathed in erotic stories.  Anyone want to count the horrible writing sins that Margery got away with?

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The man and the woman carried the body cautiously up the stairs.  Although it was still early evening, the narrow way was grey and shadowy, and it was very cold, colder even than it had been outside amid the thin traffic of a war-time London. 

The two who were alive in that grim little group which writhed and breathed so hard in the gloom were both elderly people.  They were an unexpected couple in any situation; the man was a large blank-faced Cockney without any pretensions and the woman was out of place beside him, her delicate aristocratic grace accentuating both his clumsiness and the horror of her present task.

All they had in common was the job in hand and a sense of nightmare, and as they plodded upwards with the dead weight between them their feet trod the carpeted stairs without feeling them and they strained their muscles without noticing the strain.

Mr. Lugg, who was in his disreputable Civil Defence uniform, reflected that he had to hand it to the old girl even if she was a marchioness, she was showing very game.

'One more flight,' he muttered.

'Hush,' said Lady Carados, adding breathlessly: 'oh, can't we keep her feet off the ground?'

Discount Code for High-resolution Music Downloads from HDtracks.com

The nice people at Crutchfield.com sent a 15% off discount code for high-resolution music file downloads from the HDtracks.com music download website.  The code is CRUTCHFIELDHD15
and it is good until 9/29/14.  Be sure to click "Apply Discount Code" before checkout.

I've never purchased anything from HDtracks but Crutchfield supplied most of the audio and video equipment in my home.  Of course Crutchfield is most famous for their top-notch car audio equipment and superb installation instructions.

Alice in Wonderland music video from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Tom Petty has a new hit album out.  To celebrate, here's the classic music video from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with the Alice in Wonderland theme: Don't Come Around Here No More.