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marilyn-kallet's picture
Sep.07.2008
It's my turn to give the departmental talk on jobs in creative writing, in a couple weeks.   The graduate students in writing will be the main...
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robert-grudin's picture
Sep.07.2008
See http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/354444/the_word_from_wasilla
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john-elder-robison's picture
Sep.07.2008
Some books are written just to entertain. If the book is enjoyable to read on a cool fall night, that’s enough. I enjoy reading books like that...
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jamie-carie's picture
Sep.07.2008
Watch Out America! The Sarah Palins Are Back in Vogue! I went to the bank yesterday and saw a woman with her hair piled on her head, proudly...
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gabriella-hewitt's picture
Sep.07.2008
A tough economy demands you save money on books. Free novels available online. Harper Coliins is looking for its next big authors. They have put a...
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susan-browne's picture
Sep.07.2008
I'm completing my sabbatical project.  It's about connecting literature with each chapter of Eckhart Tolle's book, The Power of Now.  I chose Mary...
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lisa-mcmann's picture
Sep.07.2008
Recently, I did a phone and e-mail interview with Lynn Rosendale, the Associate Director of Communications and Marketing and managing editor of Spark...
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linda-jo-hunter's picture
Sep.07.2008
There are eleven different kinds of huckleberries and the varieties grow close to each other. Some of them are sweet at different times of the...
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libby-cone's picture
Sep.07.2008
More reviews are coming in, most of them favorable. I have heard from a publisher. More soon...   http://bcfreviews.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/war...
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anne-brooke's picture
Sep.07.2008
After yesterday's diatribe about the horrors of church, Lord H and I popped into St Mary's Shackleford for our monthly visitation. It wasn't too bad...
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emily-jacques's picture
Nov.10.2008
My count is now 10,154! I've broken the 10,000 word mark! I finished Chapter Four today, and started on Chapter Five only because I needed to bump up...
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emily-jacques's picture
Nov.10.2008
Haha! We have dialogue. I wrote the scene between Sofia and George before finishing Chapter Two, and it's much stronger on character development. Yay...
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emily-jacques's picture
Nov.10.2008
Chapter Two has arrived! I think I'm going to need to add more dialogue to this chapter on a future re-write. I'm struggling with myself about this...
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emily-jacques's picture
Nov.10.2008
This is the first fiction I've written since university, and my first NaNoWrimo posting. It's over 2260 words so far. My plan is to write like the...
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former member's picture
Nov.10.2008
by former member
"‘Bad boy’ Cui Jian, [pronounced Sway Jen] China’s first long-haired rock icon, has pulled off another musical coup by becoming the first artist...
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jenna-giarletta's picture
Nov.10.2008
So, yeah, I know NaNoWriMo started a week ago.  I honestly meant to start a blog about writing my novel In Spirit the day I started, but I got...
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janey-bennett's picture
Nov.10.2008
Throughout time, adolescents have done risky things. Sometimes the dangerous, child-no-longer actions are prescribed by their culture, as in the...
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catherine-nagle's picture
Nov.10.2008
Foundation… …Every Religion …                I have been raised Catholic, but not as strict in religion per se; as my upbringing to the daily...
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carlos-amaral's picture
Nov.10.2008
Participating in NaNoWriMo has been the most liberating literary experience of my writing life. I have been writing off an on for over 24 years....
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whitney-mckim's picture
Nov.10.2008
Hi all you WriMos out there! It's the beginning of week 2, the time when all your wild and wooly plot problems will start to roar their ugly head....
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