Writing

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• in Blogging
  The Time Has Come To Write!
  On beating the writing blues and blahs.
  by AlexandraJones / on Oct 14, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Writing”

• Journaling for Life

  
  Reschool Yourself — Authority: 99
  I haven’t written too much on the Reschool Yourself blog yet about the key role journaling has played in my life, so I wanted to share this post. I was pleased to have it published on Create Write Now , a website by the journal therapist Mari McCarthy, who is healing her Multiple Sclerosis with the help of ...
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• October 2009 Short Story Contest Winners

  
  Review Fuse Blog — Authority: 108
  We are proud to announce that Conversation by Tyffany Neiheiser is the winner of our October 2009 Short Story writing contest. She has given us permission to publish her short story below. Tyffany D. Neiheiser is a part time writer and full time book addict. Tyffany lives in sunny Arizona with her six cats, two ...
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• 3 Reasons To Say “Thank You” When You Start Your Speech?

  
  Successful Speeches Blog — Authority: 401
  Should you say “thank you” when starting a speech? Some “experts” will tell you it’s a public speaking sin that will bore your audience and not give any momentum to your speech. Some presenters believe you should thank everyone and their grandmother’s cow. So what’s the answer? Should you or ...
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• My Critique of the New Moon Soundtrack

  
  Homeschool Facts — Authority: 462
  If youre looking for a review of the New Moon soundtrack, Im glad you came by. The thoughts that might be running through your head are probably similar to the thoughts that I had when I first saw...
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• WOOF Contest Winners for November 6th

  
  Wanderer Thoughts — Authority: 531
  Zorlone dominates two of the top three slots this week with Jena Isle picking up 2nd place.  Congrats to my fellow writers and P50 bloggers. WOOF Contest – Top Picks Poetry Zorlone – “ No Call to Counter Strike ” – A poem inspired by the fall of Gondolin. Jena Isle – “ My Painful Past ...
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• “Some people accumulate more emotional rust than others.” ~ Andrew Solomon, Noonday Demon

  
  Lola's Curmudgeonly Musings on Life, Love & Other Trifles — Authority: 122
  Movie Poster for Savage Grace“I’m living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there’s a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense.” ~ Audrey Niffenegger, The [...]
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• Five Important Points To A Good Internet Marketing Article

  
  Free Internet Marketing Information — Authority: 156
  You should know the five key ingredients for effective internet marketing articles. The 5 ingredients are: 1. A clever title: The title should make the reader think and create interest or at least be attractive enough that they stop and take a look. You should also consider whether it’s attractive to the targeted ...
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• Peer Conferring: Questions

  
  TWO WRITING TEACHERS — Authority: 126
  I’m intrigued by peer conferring.  There’s just something about two writers coming together to talk about their work that’s interesting to me.  I love the nuances of peer conferring — learning what works well and what doesn’t.  I like to study really strong collaborations to find the little-known-secrets ...
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• Your web content: the elves won’t fix it

  
  Contented: content that makes people happy — Authority: 115
  Strange, isn’t it, that so many companies and government organisations will cheerfully spend hundreds of thousands of dollars every year on a content management system for their web sites and intranets… when the content is shocking awful and likely to stay that way and when their staff honestly don’t know ...
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• Akismet VS WordPress 2.8.5

  
  TruXter Tech News — Authority: 103
  Help my other sites are fried and dead.
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• Monday Ramblings

  
  Marianne LaCroix — Authority: 129
  I caught up with the principal and we talked about the situation. I am upset, but at least the school is making every attempt to correct the problem and address it. At least it is not being ignored. I had this fear it would. Tomorrow I am going to try Grassroots Coffee, the new coffee place here in town. Looks like a ...
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• Music and Writing

  
  Words, Words, Words — Authority: 110
  Over the past two years, I’ve developed the habit of listening to a single song on repeat while working on a story. (Believe me, my husband gives thanks nightly that I have headphones). It’s always been kind of neat to hear the song later and think of the story that’s been grooved into my brain along with the ...
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• Tip: Use positive language

  
  Contented: content that makes people happy — Authority: 115
  If you want to communicate clearly, use positive language. This is a basic guideline for writing plain language. Negative language is inherently difficult to use because it has: • conceptual difficulties (you may be writing about something nonexistent) • psychological difficulties (negative language makes people ...
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• The Road to Hell is Paved With Adverbs

  
  Word Dreams... — Authority: 120
  From my fellow Writing Mommies , a few words of good advice: “If you require a practical rule of me, I will present you with this: Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it–wholeheartedly–and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your ...
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• Bedtime with Moby Dick

  
  angelawd — Authority: 119
  He turns out his nightstand light while I put down Moby Dick and pick up my phone. “Are you calling someone this late?” “No, I’m looking up a word.” He rolls his eyes up to heaven, as if he’s appealing to God for me. “I don’t know every word,” I said. “That’s why I look things up.” “What ...
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• NaNoWriMo word count for today

  
  Standing On The Shoulders Of Giant Midgets — Authority: 427
  11,128 / 50,000 Words In my defense, I also did a reinstall of my operating system today while I was writing. I really had just about had it with the issues I had with Karmic Koala after upgrading from Jaunty--were talking Linux here. And while the reinstall from CD went smooth as silk and seems to have taken ...
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• Textual Interventions

  
  First Person Irregular — Authority: 99
  Last week the Toronto Star announced it was going to sack about 100 in-house editors, and replace them with editors from somewhere else. Today the Torontoist blog is running  an internal memo to Star staffers from the publisher. What’s interesting about it is that a Star editor took a none-too-kind red pen to ...
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• Nov 9 09: Once in the Night

  
  Musings from the Newly Hatched — Authority: 121
  Today’s assignment from Poetic Asides? To write a slippery poem. “ The subject can be about something slippery (snake, soap, etc.), or the poem itself can deal with a slippery subject (I’m thinking big concepts like that have words ending in -ism might fit the definition of a slippery subject).” I started ...
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• What should a leader say in times of tragedy?

  
  Public Speaking Advice and Commentary — Authority: 119
  The recent tragedy at Fort Hood prompted President Obama tomodify previously scheduled comments to a Native American group in order tocomment on the horrific shootings ( http://tinyurl.com/yjg4pyz ) .   ThePresident’s comments demonstrate both the opportunities and the pitfalls ofthis sort of leadership speech, ...
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• Editor Unleashed/Smashwords “Why I Write” essay contest

  
  The Word The Word According To Me — Authority: 420
  You may remember a while ago that Editor Unleashed and Smashwords ran a flash fiction contest. The top 40 entries were collected in an ebook anthology and each earned their author $25, with the winning entry getting $500. My story, Parklife , was one of the top 40. Well, they’re at it again. Editor ...
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