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Before men knew letters, they put their messages in sculptures on stone. - Andis Kaulins
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Publications by Andis Kaulins
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Andis Kaulins "On Writing"
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For a more extensive and up-to-date list, see getCITED.
PUBLICATIONS LISTED HERE ARE:
Author (team of four), 2002 revision (and following years) of the Langenscheidt Routledge Dictionary of Business, Commerce and Finance, English-German, German-English, 1236 pages, book ISBN 3-86117-191-0, CD-ROM ISBN 3-86117-208-9. This popular dictionary is updated annually for the CD-ROM version and is now in its 3rd edition, published in 2007..
Stars Stones and Scholars: The Decipherment of the Megaliths as an Ancient Survey of the Earth by Astronomy, Trafford Publishing, Canada, Ireland, USA, 2003, 420 pp.
ISBN 1-4120-1344-5.
"Zum Ursprung des Horus-Glaubens im vordynastischen Ägypten" [The Origin of the Cult of Horus in Predynastic Egypt], Efodon Synesis, Issue 5, Sept./Okt. 2005, Vol. 12, Nr. 71, pp. 19-31.
This article is available IN ENGLISH as HorusFalcon.pdf and also in serial form in English at LexiLine as The Cult of Horus, at the Ancient Egypt Blog as The Origin of the Cult of Horus in Predynastic Egypt, and at the Ancient World Blog as The Cult of Horus and the Origins of Astronomy.
"Sternensteine – Darstellungen frühgeschichtlicher Astronomie
am Beispiel der Externsteine [Star Stones - Prehistoric Astronomy on the Example of the Extern Stones], Frühgeschichtliche Astronomie in Norddeutschland, Schriftliche Fassung der Referate, gehalten auf der 39. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Walther Machalett am 06. und 07. Mai 2005 in Horn/Externsteine. A CD-ROM of this and other presentations is available from Dr. Gert Meier, Im Linder Bruch 38, 51147 Koeln (Porz-Lind), Germany (German language only).
Die Himmelsscheibe von Nebra : Beweisführung und Deutung in Efodon-Synesis, Issue 2, March/April 2005, Volume 12, No. 68. This article is availabe online in English as a .pdf under the title The Sky Disk of Nebra: Evidence and Interpretation.
Baltic Law and Culture In the Mirror of the Latvian Supreme Court Decisions 1918-1940
The Phaistos Disc: Hieroglyphic Greek with Euclidean Dimensions
An Astrological Zodiac in the Script of Easter Island
The Etruscan Bronze Liver of Piacenza: An Ancient Starfinder and Calendar
The Relation of the Baltic Languages to Illyrian
Kings and Dynasties
The Norse Pharaohs
The Baltic: Origin of the Indo-European Languages and Peoples
Divided Nations
Stars Stones and Scholars
The Basic Internet Guide
Were the Pharaohs Dyslexic?
Edited Books
Infinity One - A Minoan Computer Adventure
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Although I teach legal research and legal writing at the university level, I myself am surely not a gifted writer. As a student, my test scores in areas such as "analytical thinking" were unsurpassed, but my "verbal" aptitude scores always left something to be desired, excluding vocabulary, where I always excelled. You have to know the words, but I never cared for grammar.
There are of course gifted writiers out there in the world and I try to listen to them and to apply their teachings as I can to my own written work.
If we look to Stephen King' s non-fiction book, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, we find that the very gifted writer King says that he learned a lot from John Gould, editor of the Lisbon Falls, Maine, weekly newspaper, Weekly Enterprise, who gave him his first writing job as a sports reporter. King relates that Gould told him the following when he started reporting:
"When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story.... When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story."
That wisdom is in some part a secret to success in life, not just in writing. Stick to the story. TAKE OUT ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE NOT THE STORY.
That is much easier said than done of course and much of my own writing could be reduced greatly by putting it into the hands of a neutral editor. Moreover, I often do not get around to rewriting things as they should be rewritten and edited, but be aware that I do know better. It is all a question of time and the mass of material presented.
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