Tag: writing
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October 01, 2006 11:41 PM EDT --
I would like to be a better writer. I know I don't have the vocabulary. It would take too long to really increase my vocabulary and I know I won't take the time to try. I have always felt that . . . more
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June 03, 2008 07:50 AM EDT --
Good morning and welcome to Tuesday Writing Essentials, where you are welcome - and even encouraged - to spotlight your best work on Gather.
Just let us know what you consider your best work - preferably . . . more
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May 29, 2007 08:16 PM EDT --
Beyond mechanics, what makes good writing or, writing good?' Mechanics are often considered a necessary but not sufficent component of good writing.
What types of writing do you prefer?
Fiction or . . . more
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October 08, 2007 09:39 AM EDT --
People are always asking me what it takes to do what I do...to be a writer. Since I'm assuming these people have probably written something – something specific – then what they are . . . more
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January 19, 2008 06:41 AM EST --
A while back I received an email from a young man who was all in a tizzy to get his work out to the awaiting public. So incredible was his works of fiction it would make The Lord Of The Rings seem like . . . more
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March 23, 2008 12:57 AM EDT --
The examples are taken from Nora Roberts, but the technique applies to all fiction writing. All writing, period.
In Second Nature, one of two long novellas published in Nora Roberts 2003 re-issue . . . more
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August 11, 2006 09:29 AM EDT --
I think I could write anywhere. You could throw me naked in a meat locker turned to 42 degrees, and I would scrape words in the frost on the floor. It wouldn't be fun. Probably read like frozen crap, . . . more
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May 14, 2007 11:29 AM EDT --
A number of people are missing great opportunities to use the apostrophe in their insults. Because I want every member to be eligible for the Apostrophe Award, I offer this guide to using the . . . more
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June 03, 2007 03:25 AM EDT --
Looks like the old thread is dead. I've had just enough exercise, wine and jet-lag to put up a new post.
Stuff I've been thinking about in the wake of the contest...
Wrting is not a competitive . . . more
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August 12, 2007 11:50 AM EDT --
R each the stars and fly me across the moon
Abeautiful melody pass through this destiny
J ust for pretending the sadness smile
E nclose the dreams for all memories
N ear me a fairies sleep like an angel . . . more
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October 14, 2007 06:53 AM EDT --
Peg is a friend of mine from a long time ago. We have a very complicated past, she and I, and it's nothing I would ever write about, or discuss with anyone else. The fact that we live four . . . more
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October 19, 2007 05:56 AM EDT --
The class in Macon was both long and ill conceived. It’s hard to teach construction from a classroom. If you want someone to learn how to make something you ought to have them in the field when . . . more
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October 29, 2007 05:32 AM EDT --
In 2009 there will be no more free television signals. Analog television, that is those televisions which pick up signal through the air like radio, will go static in 2009, ending the first era of television. . . . more
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January 30, 2008 04:30 PM EST --
When my time on earth is past and my
Ashes have been scattered to the wind,
Will you recall the sound of my voice and
Hear it echo somewhere in the distance?
Will your arms . . . more
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February 16, 2008 04:31 PM EST --
From everywhere they came,
thousands of silent voices,
clamouring to tell stories,
make an audience laugh,
share dreams and visions,
create worlds.
Lotus petals opened,
old wounds cured, . . . more
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March 10, 2008 12:52 AM EDT --
Down on the bayous, we have an inside joke about folks using big words. We call them fifty cent words. I'm prone to be crazy about new words. I guess it's because years ago, . . . more
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April 19, 2008 12:53 PM EDT --
I go to Central Park on my lunch hour. I love to feed the birds and watch the children play. Sitting next to a nanny with two young charges happily babbling to one another I thought . . . more
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June 06, 2008 06:14 PM EDT --
What? You thought he'd done enough work today already?
Especially when you consider that all of this is getting done before he leaves for work at his store?
I thought so, actually. But he decided . . . more
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June 17, 2008 08:15 AM EDT --
So .... 3x points week is over. And there were an awful lot of articles published during it....so many that some of the good stuff might well have been overlooked. Was any of it yours?
Here's your . . . more
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August 20, 2008 02:43 AM EDT --
Stop it! Enough is enough!
Enough skirmishing and lamenting, or struggling to hold on. And, like an adolescent quieting down after a blind paroxysm, our bawls begin to collapse, we quiver once . . . more
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