Tag: writing
member name: Linda M.
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January 13, 2007 03:00 AM EST --
December 2004 - For the last month I've been writing a novel. Every November since 2001, the year after I moved to Happy Camp, I've written a novel. Before then I only dreamed of writing novels. . . .
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January 25, 2007 03:44 PM EST --
If your articles seem dull, try these tips for making them spicy and exciting as well as informative. You can capture your readers' attention and make them anxious to read more.
Examine the Angle . . .
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March 23, 2007 04:07 AM EDT --
"Writing is what we make from the broth of our experience. If we lead a rich and varied life, we will have a rich and varied stock of ingredients from which to draw on. If we lead a life that is too . . .
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March 23, 2007 10:46 PM EDT --
"To be productive, we have to make writing a part of our daily lives. The problem is that we view writing as a luxury, something special to allow ourselves as soon as we've taken care of the countless . . .
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April 01, 2007 04:53 AM EDT --
"Some of us tend to think that what we do and say and decide and write are cosmically important things. But they're not. If you don't know which way to go, keep it simple."
- Anne Lamott, . . .
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November 26, 2009 04:14 AM EST --
I stayed up all night to write. I'm so serious. Writing started at midnight. My goal was 2500 words daily. Or nightly, you could say. I did fairly well until almost mid-way through the month, and . . .
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March 20, 2007 07:16 PM EDT --
Forward Motion is the best message board I've found for novelists who want to join an enthusiastic, helpful writing community of working professionals. Though there's a big emphasis on science . . .
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October 04, 2009 07:08 PM EDT --
Every November for the last eight years I've participated in NaNoWriMo . This November will be no different for me.
I had a great plot come to me while I was journaling a few weeks ago and I'm going . . .
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September 16, 2007 12:06 AM EDT --
Did you know I write novels? I don't often mention that on Gather. This is not another request to read a first chapter...
I found Gather through an AdSense link on a friend's writing website. . . .
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February 10, 2007 01:13 PM EST --
I'm starting a private critique group on Gather for those who want feedback on flash fiction (up to 1000 words) but who don't want to publish the work in the public sections of Gather as it may . . .
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October 05, 2009 06:57 PM EDT --
In Shane Durgee's short novel, North American Primates , published by Red Weaver Press, the Bigfoot creatures are depicted as playful, frightening, territorial, and sometimes dangerous. One of them . . .
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March 23, 2007 04:19 AM EDT --
I'm probably too late to break 3,000 this month, as I've got only 1042 points right now. But next month I'll definitely be in the heat of the race to try to do this. It isn't that I'm . . .
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April 01, 2007 04:42 AM EDT --
I'm writing this to remind myself later on... regarding how many points I currently have. I won't be writing nightly point reports - some of my friends will find them annoying, I suspect. But for . . .
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August 19, 2007 03:37 AM EDT --
I've been trying to earn money online, and have had some limited success with my blogs. I now earn enough online to pay all my hosting fees, my domain names, and whatever else I need to keep this mini-business . . .
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September 07, 2008 03:41 AM EDT --
For the last year and a half I've worked part-time in a small restaurant in my very small mountain town of about 1200 people. Even though there's not many people here, we stay busy most lunch hours, . . .
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January 18, 2007 04:06 AM EST --
I was awake late at night, fascinated by what I learned. My cat kept me company as I researched the topic of themes in children's literature for more than an hour. I then set aside my books and laughed. . . .
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January 24, 2007 03:21 PM EST --
I was born in 1952 in Oakland, California at the corner of McArthur and Broadway - in the old wing of the Kaiser hospital there. My childhood was spent in El Cerrito and El Sobrante, in the northern part . . .
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January 30, 2007 02:30 AM EST --
For the last three years I've had The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath on my TBR (to be read) list. Recently when I saw an audio version on CDs, unabridged, I couldn't resist. I borrowed it from my library . . .
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January 16, 2007 04:55 PM EST --
I am the pilot. My writing is the airplane. I am responsible for take offs and landings, and for the direction my writing will take. I am the one in control. I am the responsible party who must get myself . . .
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