Xamuel.com Blog Carnival

• First some inspiration… James Feudo talks about pushing yourself and illustrates his article with some real life experiences, something I’ve always felt adds a lot to a story.

  James Feudo presents Do You Push Yourself Enough? posted at Overnight Sensation – Public Speaking, Communication and Personal Development.

• An insightful blog article about book prologues. Pay attention, ye novel-writers

  Livia Blackburne presents Pillars of the Earth: an example of a prologue done well posted at Livia Blackburne.

• Here’s an article about the tough initial period of starting a business, when you aren’t actually making any money. Patrick says “Work for Free”… I say “Work for Fun”.

  Patrick presents Want to Work for Free? Start a Business posted at Cash Money Life.

• The next post from Swagat is not original, but it’s always fun to re-read the oldies. One thing I’ve learned from writing is, there’s nothing new under the sun.

  swagat presents tasting your own medicine posted at Its all in here.

• Palmer Arkanian points out some funny names in this short piece:

  Palmer Arkanian presents Olympian Bode Miller’s Sister posted at The Blog of Unusual Things.

• Ok, this next one is a bit obscure: a list of 50 (!) blogs for crime and mystery book lovers. The internet not only has everything… it has everything in great abundance

  angelicbaby presents 50 Best Blogs for Crime & Mystery Book Lovers posted at Court Reporter.

• Here’s an interview with Sarah Hamaker about writing. Nothing very revolutionary, but it might be worth a glance for people very new to writing.

  Tiffany Colter presents Interview with Sarah Hamaker posted at Writing Career Coach.

• I’m a little surprised to get the next submission, just because it’s so short. An interesting haiku…

  Robert Terrell presents galactic dreamers ? haiku posted at the existential poet.

• Here’s an interesting story about two very different people who got married… do men like this actually still exist? Soaked in the pickup artist world, I have a very different view on romance than the guy in this story, but whatever works for you!

  Madeleine Begun Kane presents Romancing The Stoic posted at Raising Kane.

Only nine submissions, so I’ll fill in the tenth with one of my own articles. We should end things on a cheerful note, so here are One Hundred Things that Make Me Happy