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kristina-riggle's picture
Aug.30.2008
I'll miss you, Michael Patterson, though you're only a pen and ink drawing on smudgy newsprint. For as long as I can remember reading the paper, I've...
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jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
Aug.30.2008
The first time I saw the movie Parenthood, it was lost on me because I was in the dense moment of being a parent.  For some stupid reason, my former...
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anne-brooke's picture
Aug.30.2008
Really, people, could yesterday get any better after my fabulous hole in one (um, did I mention that already?)?? Well, apparently, yes: when Lord H...
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susan-browne's picture
Aug.30.2008
I once lived in a two-story house that looked like it belonged in Tuscany, but it was in Berkeley.  After a year of dating, this is where Kenneth and...
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farzana-versey's picture
Aug.30.2008
Is it not possible that we are a repressed society because we do not have a liberal porn culture? There is ignorance about the body. It is a...
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kirsten-sundberg-lunstrum's picture
Aug.30.2008
"I think that if you write, you necessarily think the world is beautiful.  Otherwise, why record it?  So I would say yes, I have a really ...
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louise-marley's picture
Aug.30.2008
We've heard the right-wing talking point for months about Barack Obama's lack of experience.  For the "under-informed voter" (a phrase that...
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terry-odell's picture
Aug.30.2008
I'm subscribed to a Writing Quote of the Day list. I've never been good at plotting far in advance. It's just my process. So this quote from Norman...
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craig-mcdonald's picture
Aug.30.2008
In the first Hector Lassiter novel, Head Games, Hector visited his old friend Orson Welles on the set of Welles’ noir classic Touch of Evil. It was...
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gerard-jones's picture
Aug.29.2008
I'm still euphoric over the Democratic convention and fascinated by the Palin choice. Tomorrow I start my campaign phoning and talk to the local...
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love-babz's picture
Nov.06.2008
I had the best intentions of writing today...you know string some words together to form a sentence or two, maybe a paragraph. Oh NO! I had grocery...
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beth-snowberger's picture
Nov.06.2008
Good morning. The entry I wrote yesterday seems not to have saved, but the upshot was Hooray Obama, Boo Writer's Block.  I had a terrible time...
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WriterGrl313's picture
Nov.06.2008
My first run at this and it's going fairly well. I figure that I need to write about 12,500 words per week. I started really writing Nov. 2 and now,...
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joanne-mcgonagle's picture
Nov.06.2008
Today while typing, the words just seem to flow for almost two hours.  The story just seemed to keep coming to me while I was typing.  I was  tired...
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former member's picture
Nov.06.2008
by former member
Yep. That's it. That's the challenge. Go to a yoga class. Just one. Write it up and we'll slap it up on the site. Our first(but not our only) guest...
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gallia-georg's picture
Nov.06.2008
I have just set up my profile at NaNoWriMo site after I registered there yesterday. Here is the link to it, http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/457824...
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lina-ru's picture
Nov.06.2008
by Lina Ru
I just wrote a poem honoring change through a political campaign. If you truly believe Obama is here to bring change, please read it. Change is not...
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laura-radcliff's picture
Nov.06.2008
We have a new president and I am overjoyed.  It is important that I put this down before time passes and I never get it done.  I canvassed the...
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former member's picture
Nov.06.2008
by former member
John Leonard is dead. A literary prodigy at thirty-two when asked to edit the New York Times Book Review, Leonard oversaw the NYTBR's glory days...
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bryan-linnenkugel's picture
Nov.06.2008
I was wondering if anyone out there has any ideas for getting work noticed... I know that this is a common question from all aspiring writers but I...
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