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deborah-grabien's picture
Aug.18.2008
  So, we had a really nice event at Clayton Books on Saturday, complete with a contest, all-access laminates, food (made by me), bellinis, and a...
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anne-brooke's picture
Aug.18.2008
Not a great day today, I must admit. I do so hate having to go back to work after the joys of being away and am consumed by envy for those people...
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june-casagrande's picture
Aug.18.2008
As part of an occasional series titled "Wonderings and Googlings" at my main blog, today I did a Google search on two expressions that...
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bill-schmalfeldt's picture
Aug.18.2008
Every year about this time, my mind drifts back to a little single wide trailer in Escatawpa, Mississippi and the studios of the now defunct WGUD-FM...
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mary-bergin's picture
Aug.18.2008
Two reminders: What you see in the mirror is a distortion of reality, and growing up doesn’t mean throwing away the past. Milwaukee this month adds...
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jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
Aug.18.2008
In the summer of 1976, I was fourteen years old and obsessed with Nadia Comaneci.  When I was on the blocks at a swim meet readying for the starter's...
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blair-kilpatrick's picture
Aug.18.2008
I seem to have lost momentum,  after the big push to get the corrected page proofs for Accordion Dreams back to my publisher last month.  Or maybe it...
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gabriella-hewitt's picture
Aug.18.2008
Nurse: Doctor, come quick! She's got writer's block. Doctor: Ms. Hewitt. Please, tell me your symptoms. Patient: I feel stuffed up and congested in...
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alexandra-sokoloff's picture
Aug.18.2008
It seems to be a law of writers' blogs that you must have an essay on that perennial question: Where Do You Get Your Ideas? So I thought that by...
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lauren-lise-baratz-logsted's picture
Aug.18.2008
Mark Sarvas, author of the wonderful debut novel HARRY, REVISED and creator of the popular litbblog The Elegant Variation, recently reviewd Ed Park's...
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scott-couchman's picture
Oct.31.2008
Oh man, am I ready for this?  I have a story with a decent plot and some nice twists, I have characters I really like,  the summary actually ENDS...
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scott-couchman's picture
Oct.31.2008
So I come to Red Room from the special offers page at NaNoWriMo.org, because the offer from Red Room sounds great.  I'm not one for journalling like...
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former member's picture
Oct.31.2008
by former member
Mathematician Cracks Mystery Beatles Chord. Not to be confused with the Hendrix chord or the sacred chord.
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former member's picture
Oct.31.2008
by former member
The picture of a boat approaching a wooded island held a strange sway over the early twentieth century imagination. Strindberg closes The Ghost...
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red-room-parlor-tricks's picture
Oct.31.2008
Happy Halloween from Red Room! We've added a new banner designs for your Red Room pages. Instructions for adding them are included below. (Check out...
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former member's picture
Oct.31.2008
by former member
Last evening I watched PBS television's 1 1/2 hour program about Annie Lou Leibovitz. Tremendously interesting! She's now my hero(ine).  Ivory and...
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belinda-hulin's picture
Oct.31.2008
Ok, writing a blog has always struck me as a major commitment.  I know, I know.  The entries can be short.  They don't have to be researched.  BUT--...
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mary-wilkinson's picture
Oct.31.2008
Everything about today appeared richly golden and shimmering.  I don't know if it is because of Halloween or because I am drawn to things of that...
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jamie-grove's picture
Oct.31.2008
I'm a big fan of NaNoWriMo, so big that I sponsored a giveaway of 30 NaNoWriMo halos for writers who could not afford to donate.  The list of writers...
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delia-cabe's picture
Oct.31.2008
Since my days with Gary, I have been fascinated with memory--how the brain processes memory and how our memories define ourselves. Awhile ago, I came...
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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.