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jane-ganahl's picture
Oct.16.2008
Talk about the best-laid plans! I had intended to blog a couple of times during Litquake week but... well... was simply too INSANE to be able to sit...
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steve-hauk's picture
Oct.16.2008
Sunday the Monterey County Herald (California) ran a story with major national and election implications by Julia Reynolds. I assume it was sent out...
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chris-baty's picture
Oct.16.2008
So a few weeks ago, I sent an email to the NaNoWriMo mailing list that contained the following bit: - - - YOUR SUMMER WRITING ASSIGNMENT: A NANOWRIMO...
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chris-baty's picture
Oct.16.2008
[This pep talk was sent to NaNoWriMo pariticpants last year.]   Well, we're on the cusp of another beautiful noveling November. The turn-out so far...
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jayne-lyn-stahl's picture
Oct.16.2008
Happy Birthday... Oscar Wilde: "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."...
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heywood-gould's picture
Oct.16.2008
MORAINE, Ohio, Oct, 15...Sixpack has been a proud name in the Ohio River valley for seven generations. But that will end today.  Joe Sixpack VI,...
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terence-clarke's picture
Oct.16.2008
Besides being a superb poet and noted figure of the musical stage, Horacio is a renowned educator of tango music and lyrics. Terry: The work you've...
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dale-estey's picture
Oct.16.2008
   Many a year ago a writer told me that authors need to be good at promotion. To get recognized. To sell the work. He said that in this day and age...
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jayne-lyn-stahl's picture
Oct.16.2008
We may not come away with much that's different after this debate, but there is a new character, at least John McCain would like us to think so---Joe...
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june-casagrande's picture
Oct.16.2008
hurdle / hurtle  You’re running like the wind, hauling tail Indian Jones-style through some busy marketplace. You’re shoving things out of the way,...
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kali-meister's picture
Dec.06.2008
It is embarrassing for me to admit my very guilty pleasure. It stems from my childhood and the time before my mother married my stepfather. This felt...
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jagannath-adukuri's picture
Dec.06.2008
When I read Eliot's poetry as an undergrad I thought he was a pompous poet given to showing off his scholarship.The amount of classical allusions and...
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jagannath-adukuri's picture
Dec.06.2008
A very interesting thing that comes to one's mind is the anonymization of debt that the modern credit system has brought about.The creditor is an...
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susan-brown's picture
Dec.05.2008
Okay folks, I am looking for responses to this blog, so get your typing fingers ready.  I need some recommendations for things to read.  I'm feeling...
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bonnie-fabian's picture
Dec.05.2008
I completed the 30 day novel challenge.  I wrote my novel in about 21 days.   It was the most difficult month of my life. I had to go to hospital...
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ferf-ziamond's picture
Dec.05.2008
Waking up, My arm brushes across where you used to be. The space is still warm as if you just stepped away. Your scent is still trapped in these...
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kate-sherrod's picture
Dec.05.2008
Last night my good friend, the Happiness Officer, picked me up and took me out into the night to bring a packet of promotional materials for a blood...
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former member's picture
Dec.05.2008
by former member
I was watching the local news the other night—mainly just to see the weather forecast. My attention fixed on a short blurb about Ward 4 candidates (I...
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jana-mcburney-lin's picture
Dec.05.2008
Those are the words I've been hearing all week, while my youngest worked on a six-paragraph story for school. She managed not to even approach the...
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former member's picture
Dec.05.2008
by former member
The Committee to Protect Journalists has released the 2008 prison census. China retains the lead with Tibetan issues bringing them 28 jailed...
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Red Room Blogs banner photograph (at the top of the page) is of writer Ernest Hemingway with Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Hemingway, and three unidentified people at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain, during the Fiesta of San Fermin in July 1925; photograph used courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.