Tag: writing
group name: readanything
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June 23, 2006 08:38 PM EDT --
If you haven't heard yet, Scribe & Quill is an awesome web site and puts out a truly outstanding newsletter every month. It is a great place to learn more about the art of writing, as well as where . . . more
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July 14, 2006 12:59 PM EDT --
The following is taken from my course: So You Want To Be An Author, which is available through The TeleConnection: http://www.theteleconnection.com
First and foremost, your query letter must look clean . . . more
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December 19, 2006 01:07 PM EST --
Reason and Passion XV
And the priestess spoke again and said: "Speak to us of Reason and Passion."
And he answered saying:
Your soul is oftentimes . . . more
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September 22, 2007 12:57 PM EDT --
A dream I had…
An exploratory ship lands on an island. The people see that they island has a lovely environment, but the largest animals are a breed of rats the size of small dogs. . . . more
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July 07, 2008 11:50 AM EDT --
Hello all,
So my book Practically Posh was just released and is already sweeping the nation, or at least my office, literally.
Yesterday, Marissa, a co-producer on the station, was . . . more
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August 15, 2008 01:48 PM EDT --
In my many cocktail-party conversations about pigeons, one of the most surprising things I was asked was: do pigeons fly?
It's surprising because, as anyone who is familiar with pigeons knows, . . . more
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September 17, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
1984
by George Orwell
(5/5 stars)
"1984"--or "Nineteen Eighty-Four" in the Oldspeak--is one of those books prophecizing doom that has remained relevant enough to generate a famous . . . more
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October 15, 2007 04:54 PM EDT --
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
(5/5 stars)
I haven't seen more than a few minutes of the famous 1975 film version of this novel. But even for me, it's hard reading this . . . more
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July 24, 2006 10:53 PM EDT --
This evening, I received a lovely thank-you message from Vina Byrne, a librarian at William B. Ogden Free Library in Walton, NY. Vina has created many illustrative scrapbooks on events and programs . . . more
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February 06, 2007 10:30 AM EST --
Title: Pervalism
Author: M.E Ellis
Publisher: Wild Child Publishing
Publisher's Address: P.O. Box 4897, Culver City, CA, 90231-4897
ISBN number: 1-934069-21-3. . . . more
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July 06, 2006 07:13 AM EDT --
I heard he finally got what was coming to him. It took long enough if you ask me. Some of the others said he took precautions so grave robbers wouldn't steal his body. Poured cement . . . more
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March 03, 2008 11:42 AM EST --
It started as a picture in my mind: a young woman wallking on a beach with the sun coming up. The beach was wide and long and she was the only person on it. Was she alone by her own choice or because . . . more
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February 11, 2008 04:50 PM EST --
What started me writing was watching things disappear. The flowers on the dining table disappeared fast; the rubber plant on the radiator cover, more slowly. The gaunt woman in the black bonnet and . . . more
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August 12, 2006 03:11 PM EDT --
I picked up Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris used in paperback a couple of weeks ago and devoured the short chapters in long bubble baths while I over pruned my fingers and toes lingering, . . . more
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January 04, 2007 09:42 AM EST --
Review of Sergio Ruzzier's The Room of Wonders.
Pius Pelosi, the rat and hero of The Room of Wonders, collects many delightful things he discovers in the course of his daily routine: shiny keys, . . . more
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October 02, 2007 10:57 AM EDT --
Money
by Martin Amis
(3/5 stars)
While "Money" is a highly entertaining, raunchy yarn, it suffers when read 20+ years later from being an '80s novel. Like every story . . . more
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March 17, 2008 04:37 PM EDT --
All little girls love pink.
Right?
Wrong.
Despite the rosy-tinted title and cover of my latest book, I must confess that loving the color pink came relatively late to me. It took an unusually, . . . more
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March 03, 2008 11:48 AM EST --
I write about my obsessions. I have a lot of them so I stay pretty busy. Little Pink Raincoat is a prime example of dual obsessions: men and fashion. To me, they're inextricably linked. The book . . . more
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June 02, 2008 10:27 AM EDT --
Why don't we know much about history?
For nearly twenty years, I have been working on that very troublesome question –and trying to solve the problem by writing and talking to people about . . . more
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February 12, 2008 10:22 AM EST --
One of the things a writer is supposed to do is to strip away the surface of our everyday selves and get underneath what's polished and pretty to the more essential stuff of life. After writing three . . . more
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