Tag: writing
group name: writersnoticed
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June 08, 2007 03:59 PM EDT --
I recently signed up for a free, six-week online fiction writing class. After a year of 'stalling' (or was it two?), I needed yet another kick-in-the-pants to motivate myself to sit down and write. . . . more
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September 26, 2007 06:04 PM EDT --
So my sweet teenager kindly informed me yesterday that I have "rustic hair." Huh? Rustic? Like log-cabin-in-the-wilderness rustic? She continued with "Mom, really, . . . more
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September 20, 2007 06:38 PM EDT --
My first year of college seemed more like high school in that each instructor assigned page numbers to either read or do work from. There was one History teacher that I will never . . . more
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September 30, 2007 08:35 PM EDT --
"The gospel is meant to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."
Garrison Keillor
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August 30, 2007 04:36 PM EDT --
You just never know what's going to happen at the Department of Motor Vehicles...
Her ring was so interesting; I had never seen anything like it. The stone was, to put it politely, an ugly piece . . . more
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July 02, 2008 02:41 PM EDT --
I'm so pleased to share this chapter from Safe Harbor.
This book has seen some major revisions from the version entered in the FCR contest. I'm as proud as can be to introduce it to the world . . . more
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September 26, 2007 07:37 AM EDT --
Are you eager to write your first book? Trying to figure out how long it should be? Do you think page count is irrelevant? Think again. In the publishing business, size does matter!
Many publishers . . . more
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June 17, 2007 04:32 PM EDT --
Writer’s Voice-How to Keep the Reader Coming Back
Writer's voiceis a literary term used to describe the individual writing style of an author. Voice is a combination of a writer's . . . more
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August 18, 2007 11:27 AM EDT --
I admit it. I’m a classic overachiever. I’m never satisfied with doing well. I’m pushing for Wow!
I have a difficult time committing to anything I’m not passionate about. A . . . more
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February 24, 2008 10:20 PM EST --
If I haven't connected with you yet, please send me a connection request.
I am looking specifically for other writers: unpublished, published or anything else. Even just for fun!
Drop . . . more
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September 18, 2007 11:23 AM EDT --
"Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers."
Jimmy Breslin
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September 20, 2007 11:19 PM EDT --
"All literature wavers between nature and paradise and loves to mistake one for the other."
Elias Canetti
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October 03, 2007 10:07 AM EDT --
Nude and shivering under my tightly-tucked hospital sheets, I had only my arms free . . . more
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July 22, 2008 06:15 PM EDT --
A few months ago, I entered a writing contest where the goal was to demonstrate how much more effective it is to show, don't tell. I was in just the right mood to have some . . . more
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November 28, 2007 04:55 PM EST --
If you've yet to read Part 1, follow the link.
Part 2
Morning arrived, and Barnes and I wound our way up the road towards town, and the small inn where the expeditions . . . more
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September 21, 2007 11:35 PM EDT --
"Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen."
Leonardo da Vinci
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May 27, 2008 08:57 PM EDT --
As some of you know, I am the editor-in-training for a new journal, the Paranexus Journal of Paranormal Research. At this point, the journal is available by subscription as an online magazine only, . . . more
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August 22, 2007 12:27 AM EDT --
My Hero and I thought we had finally reached the end, a conclusion. As we looked at each other in silence, waiting for our bankruptcy attorney to finish talking to that other attorney, we both seemed to . . . more
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March 19, 2008 10:53 AM EDT --
I was only able to attend a few panels at Omega Con, but I felt as though I got a college education in marketing from those panels and from talking to the extremely helpful owner of Marietta Publishing . . . more
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March 19, 2008 11:08 AM EDT --
Since even the big publishers were emphasizing that authors really need to do their own publicity unless they are Stephen King, David Drake, or Laurel K. Hamilton or a writer of that ilk, and of course, . . . more
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