tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138728502354978457.post1472182800844499343..comments2013-04-28T14:44:48.079+02:00Comments on JEREMY DUNS: Lawrence Block on Lenore HartUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138728502354978457.post-25101044564780090662012-01-11T20:57:05.661+01:002012-01-11T20:57:05.661+01:00Anyone notice Lenore Hart has posted her "FIV...Anyone notice Lenore Hart has posted her "FIVE NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS FOR WRITERS" on her facebook? <br /><br />I think she's missing one.<br /><br /><i>1) Make writing as important as your job -- because that's what it is: Work, not a hobby. <br />2) Set realistic goals to avoid avoidance. Fifty words a day, not 50 pages. Or maybe 1 double-spaced page a day? Just 250 words, a modest-length memo. Yet in a year that adds up to the first draft of a 365 page novel or memoir.<br />3) DON'T send said first draft out to anyone. Sure, you're excited to have made it this far, but it's not ready to be seen. Don't ruin your chances before you get started. REVISE, REVISE, REVISE. 4) Write for the right reasons. These are not "to get rich" (good luck with that) or simply to be an author. Writing is hard work -- you really gotta love DOING it to keep going. <br />5) Be the biggest critical of your own work AFTER you have a complete draft. But when you reach a goal, like finishing a carefully-revised story or chapter -- REWARD yourself. Positive reinforcement works -- and keeps the Muse coming back!</i>Tavihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11211330159661572998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138728502354978457.post-76019771707859974092012-01-01T17:31:57.108+01:002012-01-01T17:31:57.108+01:00Hart, Hari and Markham/Rowan make the top 5 in the...Hart, Hari and Markham/Rowan make the top 5 in the <a href="http://www.ithenticate.com/plagiarism-prevention-blog/bid/76548/Best-of-2011-Plagiarism-Events" rel="nofollow">'Best of 2011 Plagiarism Events' on iThenticate.com, 'the leading provider of professional plagiarism detection and prevention technology'.</a> <br /><br />The writer thinks the Hart story will continue in 2012 'as St Martin's Press takes a look at her other work and determines whether their stance remains the same'. That's a fascinating thing to say. Have iThenticate parsed 'her other work' through their software and seen even more plagiarism?mpbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08933485194939687227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138728502354978457.post-39476812045159031282011-12-19T16:33:33.589+01:002011-12-19T16:33:33.589+01:00I've been following this since Jeremy Duns fir...I've been following this since Jeremy Duns first blogged about it and have been wondering if and how it would percolate outside the blogosphere and Twitter, and into other media. Since St Martin's statement, there's not been much at all. Unfortunately, the latest I've come across demonstrates the same lack of critical thinking and probity of Hart, her publisher and her faculty.<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.joplinglobe.com/lifestyles/x1243754903/Lee-Duran-Best-story-to-give-for-Christmas-Your-own" rel="nofollow">Lee Duran, 'book columnist' for the The Joplin Globe, agrees with St Martin's Press.</a> <br /><br />It's likely she didn't bother to think or research beyond the SMP statement. She writes that 'St. Martin's checked out similarities', but this doesn't represent what St Martin's did at all. Nowhere have they said that they 'checked out similarities'. All they said they did was read Hart's 'response' on why her novel shared similarities with another novel and accepted it. There's nothing in their statement about them independently comparing O'Neal's book with Hart's. Isn't it obvious you don't judge plagiarism by a secondary resource, especially when it's written by the same person you're investigating? Not so, apparently.<br /><br />Duran's ignorance of this case and the link between research and plagiarism continues.<br /><br />Duran: 'Historical research really is limited, in many cases. Seems to me that if the same information surfaces, it’s not too extraordinary that there could be some similarities in the result.'<br /><br />In which case, Hart's imagination really is limited, too. Her book shares many copied phrases from O'Neal's; some of the same fictional events that never occured in history as O'Neal's; and paragraphs that share the same sequence of notable words as O'Neal's. Now that is extraordinary.mpbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08933485194939687227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138728502354978457.post-86430580048013702792011-12-18T21:25:45.534+01:002011-12-18T21:25:45.534+01:00One more reason to love Mr. Block!One more reason to love Mr. Block!Kelly Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01752857506190488860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138728502354978457.post-37893522654635145692011-12-17T20:56:31.341+01:002011-12-17T20:56:31.341+01:00Did you see this poem from Ross M, a comment on Le...Did you see this poem from Ross M, a comment on Lenore Hart's book's Amazon Page?<br /><br />Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, <br />Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore - <br />While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a typing, <br />As of some one plagiarizing, purloining from a text of yore. <br />"'Tis only O'Neal," I muttered, "inspiration's such a chore - <br />And no one reads him anymore."<br /><br />He ends it: "From 'The Magpie' (c) 2011 by Lenore Hart"!Joe Wallacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12957138821118016408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138728502354978457.post-13839085251259638262011-12-17T14:30:47.806+01:002011-12-17T14:30:47.806+01:00That's amazing. Many thanks indeed to Mr. Blo...That's amazing. Many thanks indeed to Mr. Block for weighing in on this whole mess.Undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16214242522330278662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138728502354978457.post-52245257186481244002011-12-16T22:25:03.303+01:002011-12-16T22:25:03.303+01:00What poetic justice if Lawrence Block, a three-tim...What poetic justice if Lawrence Block, a three-time Edgar Allan Poe Award winner, delivers the coup de grâce to this pathetic affair.mpbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08933485194939687227noreply@blogger.com