Tag: writing essentials
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November 11, 2009 03:12 AM EST --
Note: I had just written the whole thing but got the 'page not found error.' I had not copied it before trying to post. Glitchy, glitchy glitchy.
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My soul is blood, my life . . .
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November 21, 2009 08:26 AM EST --
First off I'd like to recap last week's responses. Thanks to all who responded. I was really wowed by the writing and amazed . . .
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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 . . .
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November 20, 2009 12:55 AM EST --
I've got my gardening . . .
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February 26, 2009 02:54 AM EST --
This piece was born a few hours ago as a mad rush of musings on what Life has gifted through the many sorrows it has thrown at me.
It is dedicated to a man with a spirit as towering and tough as his . . .
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November 02, 2007 01:46 PM EDT --
I've been sitting on this for awhile-note the dead metaphor there. It's something I dashed off one day while pondering the collaboration on constructive criticism that Amy George . . .
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May 07, 2008 05:39 PM EDT --
I don't have the luxury that some do. My mommy memories are just that. Memories of a woman I called "Mommy." I never grew to "Mom" or the wonderfully patient . . .
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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 . . .
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November 19, 2008 02:50 PM EST --
An ode to pings
This is in response to Kevin, the site wizard's comment that pings are going to be limited from now on, because of spam!
Pings you were here for me.
Pings you set me free . . .
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February 27, 2009 10:20 AM EST --
Hi y'all, its me, Dixie Black. Since I moved back here last year, I've noticed that not too much has changed in this burg, even the faces seem the same. But that can't be true, can it? . . .
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July 01, 2009 03:06 PM EDT --
A perfectionist
biting nails
breathing inside the oyster
turning pages of
self-defeating thoughts
with fear of disapproval
if others see their flaws
protecting . . .
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May 06, 2008 08:30 AM EDT --
I do need to get off my rear and get to school .... not good when the teacher turns up late on the first day.... but thought I'd point to a couple of the articles that immediately came to mind when . . .
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May 20, 2008 06:43 PM EDT --
Thanks so much to all who participated in this week's Tuesday Writing Essentials... I was very happy to see a whole lot of excellent contributions - and also, while I was reading them all (well, almost . . .
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May 24, 2008 03:55 PM EDT --
Silent river flows along mossy banks
just as it did many years ago
when I was a little girl;
The picnic table still stands,
wood rotting away as if from a slow cancer, . . .
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July 15, 2008 08:27 AM EDT --
I'm running late today - having a hard time getting motivated to get moving - so just a quickie right now...
It's Tuesday - and like every Tuesday, you are invited to drop a comment telling . . .
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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 . . .
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August 26, 2008 09:16 PM EDT --
Welcome to Wednesday Writing Essentials. Today, August 27th, is the theme:
What did you do this summer?
Not only this summer, but any favorite summer is fine.
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September 09, 2008 09:02 PM EDT --
Welcome to Wednesday Writing Essentials. Today, September 10, 2008, we will be remembering 9/11.
Do you have memories of what you were doing that day?
Whether you were in North America . . .
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September 09, 2008 08:54 PM EDT --
Such a beautiful day, Kate thought. A perfect day. Blue sky, yellow sun, no clouds.
Kate listened to the CD she had put in her car.
And I will always love you.
I will always love . . .
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February 18, 2009 12:36 AM EST --
Glory was the favorite one—Lucy’s best and only friend. Too old to lay, the speckled duck wandered the yard with nothing to defend. No threatening squawks over buried treasure, she’d measure the little . . .
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