MarcyKate Connolly

writer, composer, arts administrator

Month: September, 2009

Weekly Twitter Roundup 09-29-2009

Still sleepy and my throat is still dusty and scratchy from cleaning marathon 2 days ago. Not cool! # Hee hee so true! RT @agentquery: Agents, Editors: this is how writers feel while we’re waiting to hear back from you: http://bit.ly/mTkmY # Oops! Link correction to last post: http://bit.ly/u9xph – Torture by Marshmallow # Why [...]

No Comments by admin  /  September 29, 2009  /  Posted in: Social Media
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Free Stuff Friday: Oh, The Audacity!

Audacity is probably one of my favorite open source projects.  I could play with it for hours (not kidding!). In a nutshell: Audacity is a free audio editor and recorder that will work on a MAC, Windows, or a Linux-based PC. And according to their website, it’s even award-winning! Audacity was voted “Best Project for [...]

No Comments by admin  /  September 25, 2009  /  Posted in: Free stuff, Music, Technology, Writing, linkedin, nonprofit
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Offline Agents in a Digital Age

My online critique forum has an interesting discussion thread going on at present about agents and websites.  It’s making me muse-y.  The initial question posed was what do writers think about agents who only accept snail mail queries and do not maintain a web presence – no email, website, blog, twitter, facebook, etc. My first [...]

1 Comment by admin  /  September 23, 2009  /  Posted in: Social Media, Technology, Writing, linkedin
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A New Take on Cultural Diplomacy

Ever since I took a course on Comparative Cultural Policy (and went to London to really compare, natch), I’ve been a big fan of bringing back the cultural diplomacy efforts present in most presidential administrations Pre-Bush, Jr.  I had high hopes for President Obama working that angle to smooth feathers ruffled by his predecessor, but [...]

No Comments by admin  /  September 22, 2009  /  Posted in: Music, Theatre, linkedin, nonprofit
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Weekly Twitter Roundup 09-22-2009

Head. hurts. Not good. # Moving time! # Exhausted. Moving is hard work! # Got some great work done on the GHOST WRITER this weekend! yay! # Pug has decided I am not allowed to nap today. Also, apparently my blanket is her new chew toy. #

No Comments by admin  /  September 22, 2009  /  Posted in: Social Media
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Progress Report—September 20

# OF WORDS WRITTEN THIS WEEK: 4,186 Well, this wasn’t my best week of writing, but definitely an improvement over last week.  Still didn’t make my goal, but next week should be better, plus I’m adding an extra 1,000 words to my goal in the hopes of making it up to myself. FULL DISCLOSURE: I [...]

No Comments by admin  /  September 20, 2009  /  Posted in: Writing, linkedin
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