Tag: wednesday writing essentials
member name: Susan Budig
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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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October 22, 2009 02:06 AM EDT --
"Georgia Douglas Johnson sittin' in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G," chanted the school girls.
"Oh, yeah?" retorted Georgia, "just who was I kissing? Huh?! You rat-finks! You don't know anything!" she snarled. . . .
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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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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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October 20, 2009 03:27 PM EDT --
Although I scrubbed with energy, the marks remain On windows free of grime, streakless, opaque How beauteous my life looks, yet all is vain.
Birds twitter, raucous chirping, in disdain Dropping ordure . . .
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November 04, 2009 12:53 AM EST --
“But I didn’t take them,” Frank protested, “honest, Mr. Wrobleski.” The grocer shook his head. “Franklin, you know as well as I that the gloves . . .
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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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July 01, 2009 03:52 AM EDT --
Pearl Ocean swung her handbag over
t he cart’s handlebar, smacking
. . .
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July 08, 2009 02:26 AM EDT --
LM commented on my poetry blog saying, " this is what confuses me about poetry. [Your poem] “ Learning ” looked like nothing more than a short story that was broken up into short . . .
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August 26, 2009 04:57 AM EDT --
Bet you've heard a person say, "I should write a book!" Do they mean it? If so, what's stopping them? What about you? Do you want to write a book? Or a magazine article? . . .
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September 02, 2009 03:55 AM EDT --
My kids have all returned to school now. A couple weeks ago I took my freshman daughter to Cottey College , an all-women's junior college eight hours away in Missouri. One of the . . .
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September 16, 2009 01:06 AM EDT --
You might remember a couple weeks ago when I listed some core competencies that employers look for in potential employees. I posited that those same traits describe winning manuscripts . . .
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September 30, 2009 02:17 AM EDT --
Written communication over the centuries has changed such that we now have a close approximation of animated writing. This moving writing occurs on the Internet. Whereas we once spent . . .
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October 07, 2009 12:27 AM EDT --
After last week's column, a member of Gather Writing Essentials sent me a message lamenting her limited time to work on the prompts. I replied, " You'd be surprised at how the effect of taking . . .
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November 10, 2009 11:47 PM EST --
This week has been a doozy for me and it's barely started. In fact, today I worked so intently on an application that I ignored the streaming sun, the heated air of at least 50 degrees, and . . .
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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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July 09, 2009 06:14 AM EDT --
The words piled up on my paper like autumn leaves on a windy day. Fidelity, Matrimony, oath, break, broke HellCats! What did they all mean when linked? Anagrammed and dancing on the page
My sentence . . .
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August 05, 2009 03:06 AM EDT --
I heard a report on the radio the other day about children learning to read at the age of two years. I wasn't impressed with the aspect of earliness for two reasons. One, I think early . . .
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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 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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