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stephen-evans's picture
Jun.17.2013
First, we forget the list. So we walk up and down every aisle hoping something will remind us what is on the list. This doesn't work, so we buy the...
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jeffrey-ricker's picture
Jun.17.2013
I'm still sore. Last week I volunteered at an organic farm just across the river in Illinois, and spent my day packing CSA boxes, weeding beets,...
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victoria-m-johnson's picture
Jun.17.2013
I like to make a big deal over each of my publishing firsts. I know what you’re thinking: Don’t you publish for the first time only once?  No,...
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nathan-burgoine's picture
Jun.17.2013
When I was younger, I loved comic books. Specifically, I loved the X-men, because I could identify with them. They were outsiders (check!), they...
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jill-jepson's picture
Jun.17.2013
How Do I Find Topics that are Going to Sell? Years ago, I went to a small conference on writing for young adults. After a talk by an editor for a...
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jm-cornwell's picture
Jun.17.2013
Reading and writing – hand in hand, refilling the well One of the major things that I’ve discovered is that if I don’t read, I can’t write.  So...
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Jun.17.2013
“The trouble with writing a column is, it’s like running a railroad,” Murray recalled. “You can never step back and take stock of what you’ve done.”...
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Jun.17.2013
When heroic, hell-raising Vietnam fighter jock Don Crowe crashes after running into a Kansas tornado, both his legs are ticketed for amputation, but...
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chris-rodell's picture
Jun.17.2013
  (726 words) The note betrayed courtesy that seemed to me uncommon among most Montana sportsmen. It informed me I was in the crosshairs....
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pauline-rowson's picture
Jun.17.2013
Gordon Griffin is the narrator of the unabridged audio books in the DI Andy Horton series . Gordon is the voice of DI Andy Horton and the other...
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tami-ruth's picture
Jun.17.2013
Dear Rabbi Taleet, I am uncertain as to why the school has not renewed my contract after three years of service and dedication to your school. Let’s...
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JohnnyOla's picture
Jun.17.2013
    A recent phone conversation:   A good-looking guy on his Verizon car phone riding home from work: “Hey baby.”   A better-...
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alma-katsu's picture
Jun.17.2013
Facebook consolidates its advertising options; Seth Godin and Hugh Howey offer advice (are you MAD for not self-publishing?); tools to help you run a...
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JohnnyOla's picture
Jun.17.2013
  The best place to start a story is at the beginning. I was born the first child of John William Haslam and Lou Anne (pronounced Annie) Skelton...
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JohnnyOla's picture
Jun.17.2013
  Chapter 21   Years Earlier – South Carolina       The affair between the young Reverend Bobby Lee Hunt and Sue Beckton...
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michael-seidel's picture
Jun.17.2013
Once again, I'm experiencing a problem with Red Room.  It becomes such a time suck. It's a delightful time suck, like discovering secret tunnels...
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jam-hamidi's picture
Jun.17.2013
It's always beautiful in May. And the girls, two by two, followed loudly in the park. The excitement reachedits chaotic crescendo at the sight of...
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suellen-ocean's picture
Jun.17.2013
During Roman times, lavender was used to perfume bathing water. The Latin word, Lavandula means, "to wash". The Romans also started the art of...
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suellen-ocean's picture
Jun.17.2013
A fleshpot is so ancient it dates back to the book of Exodous, in the Old Testament of the bible. It was a pot for cooking meat, and back in the day...
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susie-hill's picture
Jun.17.2013
TODAY IS U MADE YOUR BED I was talking with my son not too long ago about this old adage, in references to the many decisions we make deliberately or...
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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.