Tag: writing
group name: enthusiastsofall
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June 18, 2008 02:06 PM EDT --
I see you across the room...with her...the one I despise with all of my being. She smiles at you and bats her eyes like she has something special to offer. You smile back and take it . . .
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September 10, 2008 12:40 PM EDT --
I remember the day as if it was yesterday. I woke up, got dressed and went to work at the group home where I was a Case Manager for abused and neglected children.
By the time I got there, they . . .
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September 20, 2006 01:14 PM EDT --
The blue-black night he does adorn,
yet withers and weakens upon the morn.
With approaching light his beauty fades.
Sun bearing her bright new day.
I fear not the dawn of light,
for my love returns . . .
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October 03, 2007 10:07 AM EDT --
Nude and shivering under my tightly-tucked hospital sheets, I had only my arms free . . .
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February 06, 2007 09:28 PM EST --
"I don't think writing is an art. I think it's sometimes raised to an art, but basically it's a craft, like cabinet making or carpentry." William Zinsser, On Writing Well
No . . .
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August 12, 2008 02:47 AM EDT --
I've had my ear to the rail for some time now.
Three yards up the line, my sister huddles,
waiting, same as I.
. . .
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July 19, 2007 10:44 PM EDT --
For a long time while I was in between novels, I saw the world in blog posts and Gather articles. Everything and everyone around me was part of a grand and unpredictable tale that might be written about, . . .
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December 27, 2007 09:54 PM EST --
Welcome all Memoir members and anyone who should find this essay.
For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.
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October 09, 2006 03:04 PM EDT --
Thoughts are random and scattered,
Like fragile leaves caught in a whirlwind.
Twisting, turning, until tattered,
The memory of your words leaves me badly chagrined.
They play in my mind like a broken . . .
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September 21, 2006 07:36 PM EDT --
Thunder rolls in hard, and steady.
Clouds are thick, dark and heavy.
Proclaiming the imminent storm to come.
Unleashing a fury upon everyone.
Darkness creeps in with pounding rain,
lightning strikes . . .
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August 31, 2008 04:10 PM EDT --
She had worn masks all of her life. Masks had served a purpose in her growing years. She had laughed when things weren't really funny. She had pretended to be surprised when she always knew what . . .
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July 01, 2007 12:01 AM EDT --
I’ve always believed that no matter what you do for work, whether you’re waitressing, as I did for many years, or teaching truculent adolescents, or delivering the mail, you owe it to yourself . . .
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September 07, 2007 02:09 AM EDT --
Entering the First Chapter Romance contest has been quite an eye-opener for me as far as what I need to do to market my work. And, being a self-conscious, self-deprecating kind of person, it's . . .
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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 12:15 PM EDT --
I brush crumbs to the floor
to make way for paper and pen,
wondering why
I'm left with the remains
of someone's late night sandwich
when all I want to do is
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February 06, 2008 02:05 PM EST --
I thought it might be interesting to post one of my emails to my publisher/editor. My book "The Nightwing's Quest" was originally supposed to come out Nov., 2007 but it's gone . . .
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January 09, 2008 11:16 AM EST --
Here are the writing resolutions I had for 2007:
(copied from old journal)
1. I resolve to earn more money per hour, thereby increasing my take-home pay and eventually becoming financially self-sufficient. . . .
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September 24, 2007 11:28 AM EDT --
Truth: Life’s Richest Claret
© 2007 Barbra L.
Life’s ensnarements
rarely bring us the rarefied joys
for which we long.
Instead they bring us tares ~
that . . .
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September 15, 2007 03:47 PM EDT --
The muse and I have struggled mightily this summer. In the spring, things were looking great! I wrote up a synopsis to a new novel and sent it around to a few friends. All agreed (as friends . . .
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March 12, 2008 03:20 PM EDT --
As I have been going through Gather and reading everyone's articles I realized by the date on left hand side bar that I have been submitted content to Gather for about a year now. Wow, I'm a little . . .
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