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January 05, 2010 08:04 PM EST --
Dear Editor(ess),
Please find enclosed my manuscript that you will, undoubtedly, wish to publish immediately.
I have never published anything before because other editors have not had the . . .
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January 04, 2010 06:18 PM EST --
Why do I do this to myself? Xxxxx (the “man” of the house next door) moved out about a month ago and I was kinda happy about that. His girlfriend wouldn’t let him listen to his loud . . .
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December 29, 2009 07:11 PM EST --
Sandy returned from her day at work and, after doing her dance explaining she hadn’t found any flowers, was surprised at being shuffled aside as countless workers left the hive, burdened with food. . . .
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December 28, 2009 12:23 PM EST --
It’s been nearly a month and a half since I posted my first discussion about dialogue and this seems to be a good time to add this one. Everyone is winding down from Christmas and not quite ready . . .
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December 23, 2009 07:41 PM EST --
Although many acquaintances refer to me as “Scrooge,” I really am a Christmas person. For years a lot of my friends thought I was crazy because I’d be humming or whistling Christmas . . .
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December 22, 2009 07:24 PM EST --
This is a weird freewrite for me because I’m going to actually try to tell a story in it; someting I haven’t done before. And I’m going to add some pictures. My son Greg and I went . . .
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December 17, 2009 03:58 PM EST --
The pure white expanse was broken by only a few dunes. A bitter wind swept across the frozen plain without interruption. Slowly one of the dunes seemed to open and from inside came a glow that was . . .
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December 15, 2009 04:50 PM EST --
Pirates with eye patches. Buried treasure. Maps where X marks the spot. Nearly every pirate was said to have a treasure map showing where he had hidden his plunder. You can pretend you have managed . . .
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December 10, 2009 06:20 PM EST --
It was 1955 when I learned to not take dares. I was one of those kids who would do anything... everything you wanted if you only prefaced it with, “I dare you.”
“You’re . . .
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December 08, 2009 02:12 PM EST --
Prompts: Include an allusion, use the word delectation or some form of it, somehow include music or a musical sound, specify one of the five senses in an exaggerated way, and tag with wwe.
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December 05, 2009 05:27 PM EST --
Saturday Freewrite
My mind just can’t get goingon WWE’s prompts and I have to come up with something. delectation,the allusion, music, and exaggerated sense can be worked into nearly . . .
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December 03, 2009 12:36 PM EST --
Prompt: Create a holiday newsletter based on fact or fiction, but keep humor as your underlying theme.
Hi everyone,
Sammy and Tammy bringing you this year’s Christmas . . .
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December 01, 2009 06:22 PM EST --
What do I get Aunt Sue? And, Cousin Fred, nobody can buy anything for him.
Sound familiar? Every family has a person that either has everything or doesn’t like any present given to . . .
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November 29, 2009 06:59 PM EST --
This has to be the dumbest human I’ve ever encountered -- and the most fun. Watch this... heh, heh, as soon as he pressed ENTER I shifted him over to the wrong program and he doesn’t even . . .
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November 27, 2009 05:36 PM EST --
I know! It’s early for Christmas stories, but if you decide to do what I’m describing, you’re going to need some time to plan.
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The neighborhood was nearly silent as I watched . . .
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November 27, 2009 02:59 PM EST --
To explain what I did, I need to take you back about twenty years. My wife and I had separated and my friend Dave, having an empty bedroom, invited me to move in. I never noticed, prior to that, how . . .
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November 23, 2009 08:09 PM EST --
From where I stood, all I could think of was waves.
Having spent most of my life in Southern California, I knew waves. I knew the ocean. I knew the roar as the green waves crashed on the . . .
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November 21, 2009 05:42 PM EST --
I have to get back on track and I’m going to waste a minute of my freewrite to explainthat. Compouter died - took two days to order a new one - tool a week and a halv to get it - a day to set . . .
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November 18, 2009 05:59 PM EST --
“I am dead serious, Rhonda,” her mother said, “you’re going and you’re going to enjoy it.”
“No, I won’t,” answered Rhonda.
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November 16, 2009 08:17 PM EST --
As an editor I read work from many different authors every day. Well over half of my work is fiction and the authors tend to follow the admonition to “show-don’t-tell”; meaning let . . .
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