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December 28, 2009 01:01 AM EST --
Writing Resolutions for 2010
1. I will find at least one place to teach poetry for profit this year.
2. I will continue to promote my poetry chapbook, published in May, 2009, . . .
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December 23, 2009 04:47 AM EST --
Tracy Fishman dithered for only a second before striking a match on a remnant of sandpaper, causing the phosphorous head to explode into brilliant flame giving her heat as well as . . .
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December 23, 2009 02:58 AM EST --
This week started off with an excellent GWE column by Greg Schiller . What I liked about it was that Greg reached out to another source to provide him with material for his column in the form . . .
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December 18, 2009 06:50 PM EST --
We wait, as Christians, for a miracle particularly during this time of Lent. And we wait, as a family, for a miracle for Jaci. I don't know the shape of that event. It might be in a healed body. Or it . . .
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December 16, 2009 01:49 AM EST --
Last week we each opened a present filled with something to advance our writerly lives. Inside my gift box were two published essays. Oddly, this week . . .
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December 15, 2009 02:29 AM EST --
Pared down, here are your Writer's Dreams from GWE's column & commentary:
Jennifer Lee: a cure for writer’s block Pauline S.: paid-in-full college tuition to study writing Kathryn . . .
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December 13, 2009 10:10 PM EST --
Prelude to the Massacre of the Innocents
With his bedclothes wrapped around his legs as if in the throes of ecstasy, he moans and cries out, . . .
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December 09, 2009 01:04 AM EST --
My youngest son turned ten this week. He told me the next day that his birthday was "a disappointment." He hadn't received "good enough" presents. "Close your eyes right now," I said, . . .
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December 08, 2009 02:04 AM EST --
Tip the glass and pour it down You join a thousand others Liquid salt rings lips in crown Holding hands with your brothers
You join a thousand others . . .
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December 07, 2009 03:11 PM EST --
The value of my tea, And chamomile is key to drink, Loses essence, I think If poured into the sink or gulped. Serenity is sculpt, But in haste rendered null and void When, like tea leaves, destroyed. . . .
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December 05, 2009 03:35 AM EST --
My clutched and folded map Stamped to fill every gap. Each space Marked soundly, all in place Each letter, none erased--success! This game, I did obsess Of that, I must profess. And now My wrinkled . . .
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December 02, 2009 02:07 AM EST --
Words perplex me. Not only perplex, but bedevil me. In fact, words are often my downfall. Earlier this week, I left a comment on someone's post. The author had written a work . . .
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December 01, 2009 01:11 AM EST --
Because December is a month of emotional excitement for many, the form that I present to you will be one that makes you sit and count on your fingers and say words out loud trying to find a simple, . . .
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December 01, 2009 01:07 AM EST --
I dig deeper each day
Because I want to say: my dream
Slips past fingers, I’d scream
But for nothing extreme. Scratch that.
My purse of hope is flat.
I . . .
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November 29, 2009 02:07 AM EST --
After begging candy, Deedra E. Freeman got harmfully ill. "Jeepers, kid. Like, mitigate nauseous old puke," quipped Ruby. Sister tattled--unfaithful varmit! What xxxx'ed your zipper?
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November 28, 2009 03:01 AM EST --
"What do you think he means...'I sing the body electric'" mused Becky. Svea shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know; it's dull, you know, this . . .
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November 27, 2009 02:17 PM EST --
1:09 PM
I'm sitting at KFAI radio station, studio 4, running the boards fro Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman. I'm not sitting with Ms. Goodman, I'm running the audio feed of the show. Had . . .
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November 24, 2009 10:51 PM EST --
Earlier this month I wrote about the benefits of physical exercise on our brains, which would in turn positively affect our writing. I've found a great site that supports my premise and wanted to . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:08 PM EST --
5:01 PM
I need to make supper, finish my WE column, clean the bathroom, nag children to fold and pick-up, and myriad other details. So, why am I taking time to freewrite? Compulsive. . . .
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November 23, 2009 08:10 PM EST --
"I am dead serious, Tor," Frank said to his cousin, "Far and Mor were sitting at the kitchen table last night talking about money. That's when Far said he might make Auntie Märta . . .
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Susan Budig
St. Louis Park, MN
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