Tag: writing wombats
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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 . . .
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December 03, 2007 11:28 PM EST --
As you create your first novel provide
the current month you began writing in the
opening sentence so you won't . . .
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January 18, 2008 08:23 PM EST --
I am still at the office so I'll have to keep this short. But I feel like celebrating. I want to celebrate a year on Gather, where I met all of you. I want to celebrate the Writing Wombats, as cool . . .
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December 24, 2007 01:45 AM EST --
Welcome to my zombie sanctuary, wombat! I know, I know, youthought I was just about the big cats. While that's a huge part of mylife, i also have dedicated a portion of my life to preserving . . .
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January 22, 2008 01:25 AM EST --
There are a few things which will make me stop reading a story.
Cookie cutter, cliche' characters is one of them. Or characters who lie flat on the pages like paper dolls.
There is one author . . .
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December 31, 2007 12:38 AM EST --
How do you feel when you write "The End"?
After an initial ecstatic rush, I generally feel exhausted. Wiped out. I look around my house, and there are piles of paper and clothes and dust . . .
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October 29, 2007 06:27 PM EDT --
Dorian sat up in bed, heart racing, fists clenched.
He knew he was in his own room--sunlight edging past the lined drapes lit up his fancy armoire, a gift from an equally fancy former lover. . . .
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May 21, 2008 04:34 PM EDT --
I was born into a covey of great-aunties. My great-grandmas came from large families. Grandma Belle had three sisters and Grandma May had four when I came along. Grandma Clare had two sisters.
It didn't . . .
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December 21, 2009 02:07 PM EST --
Time to set the scene. Relax, drink egg nog (laced with rum) and enjoy the company of friends.
No fuss, no muss.. let's celebrate the third Wombat Christmas.
Music to set the scene
Share . . .
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January 01, 2008 01:05 AM EST --
Agatha Christie ultimately became the acknowledged Queen of the Golden Age. In all, she wrote over 66 novels, numerous short stories and screenplays, and a series of romantic novels using the . . .
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January 01, 2008 11:26 PM EST --
Ok...I'm new so I need some help. Not much, but some.
If you were to write a self help book, what would it be about?
Or just go on about your nightly/daily duties and have fun.
Sorry didn't . . .
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October 05, 2009 07:43 PM EDT --
I recently attended a Writer’s Conference locally. It was a one day event, not a participation conference but more of a lecture and presentation event. Also, of course, an event at which . . .
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April 21, 2009 04:00 PM EDT --
This past weekend I went to the three and a half day High Tension Writing Workshop by Donald Maass, a literary agent and author of Writing The Breakout Novel. I'm still kind of processing . . .
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May 09, 2007 02:44 AM EDT --
I've commented plenty on articles about the continuing drama that is the First Chapters contest but had decided to forgo posting another article about it.
I felt like everything I had to say had been . . .
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August 30, 2007 07:56 PM EDT --
Writin’ Wombats weren’t even a twinkle in creator Lisa’s eye when she presented what she thought would be a final rant about the First Chapters Contest on May 9th, 2007 (First Chapters, . . .
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December 31, 2007 05:28 PM EST --
Yes, some of us loved the National Novel Writing Month so much that we decided to have our own special writing month.
January can be slow, but it has a whole day more than November had. So during . . .
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February 17, 2008 09:36 PM EST --
If you had asked Detective Sam Harper who he could trust to always tell him the truth and always be men he'd want by his side when times were tough, it'd be his father, his partner and his boss. . . .
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October 30, 2007 03:53 PM EDT --
I've noticed we tend to be a passionate lot. There seems to be no half measures; whether it's Pat's shiny things, Steve's baseball or golf for Ken and Dave. We must not forget John's . . .
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December 10, 2007 03:03 AM EST --
I find when I'm writing it is like a movie playing in my head and I tend to get wrapped up in the action, dialog and characters, forgetting to paint the scene. So I find myself going back to add visuals . . .
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December 16, 2007 10:22 PM EST --
A few years ago, a co-worker recommended, Memoirs of a Geisha . "You've got to read this," she said. So I did. And boy oh boy, I was swept away. The detail, the conflict, the experience. . . .
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