Tag: 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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June 03, 2009 03:45 AM EDT --
As your new member editor for the middle of the week's Writing Essentials, I'm looking forward to the opportunity to read some great writing and share what I know about the craft. Over time, . . .
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August 14, 2009 01:57 PM EDT --
I wrote this from a prompt I gave myself, including a time limit. It somewhat fits Nancy's prompt on Friday Writing Essentials. I made a couple edits today, for clarity. fyi, . . .
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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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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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June 10, 2009 01:38 AM EDT --
Many of you know about my inadvertent slip-up. I sent a mass email out to everyone who's a member of WE when I meant to send it to my own group: Mindful Poetry . But the consequence . . .
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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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September 23, 2009 01:28 AM EDT --
I looked over MaryAnne's post about generating more points . Paraphrased, it suggests to find out what people in the Interverse (that's Internet and Universe mooshed together) want to read about . . .
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October 28, 2009 01:20 AM EDT --
My fortune cookie read: You will become an accomplished writer . No lie. I'm even posting a photograph as proof positive. But what does that mean? I've published . . .
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December 16, 2009 01:49 AM EST --
Last week we each opened a present filled with something to advance our writerly lives. Inside my gift box were two published essays. Oddly, this week . . .
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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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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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June 17, 2009 01:39 AM EDT --
A question was brought up with me privately about following the rules. Do you follow the rules? How do you decide which rules to skip or fudge? When you break a rule, how . . .
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September 09, 2009 02:49 AM EDT --
We wait, as Christians, for a miracle particularly during this time of Lent.
And we wait, as a family, for a miracle for Jaci. I don't know the shape of that event. It might be in a healed body. . . .
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