Tag: wwe
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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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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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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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 17, 2009 12:41 PM EST --
I’d never seen Far look so worried. Money had always been tight, but the year I turned twelve, Far’s savings were gone and we went into debt to buy . . .
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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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June 24, 2009 02:52 AM EDT --
Last week Jim G . said, "I personally don't believe that writing, in any format, such as cinquains, should have "Rules" or "Guidelines" that must be followed... I don't need or want anyone telling . . .
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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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June 18, 2009 02:48 AM EDT --
a foreign word or phrase
five stones
another time era
wink
With freshly baked potatoes in their pockets and five roasted stones lining the footer of the sleigh, Laura squeezed in next to Pa . . .
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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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