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• Bumblr

  
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  At this point, we can’t tell if Marissa Mayer is running Yahoo ironically. Keeping the exclamation point in the logo indicates that this could all just be hipster corporate management. Yahoo, the Web monolith that helped you write your 8th grade report on Spain, just spent $1.1 billion more than anyone else ever ...
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• The enemy of my enemy is my employee

  
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  Goats. Bah. They eat everything, they’re annoying, they poop everywhere and some of them are fainting cowards. No one likes goats. That goes for both sides of this war. Well, now we’re putting them to use. Take that, animals! O’Hare airport, one of the worst airports This Guy has ever been to, is fighting the ...
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• Why Being A Cliche Will Never Change The World

  
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  Why Being A Cliche Will Never Change The World Opening your hands and temporarily abdicating your own beliefs just to see what it’s like on “the other side” will take you a long way if changing the world is really your heart’s desire. It is possible to humbly carry your convictions while simultaneously ...
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• International Museum of Women art exhibit works to dispel Muslim stereotyping

  
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  Faiza Elmasry – WNN GlobalARTS (WNN/VOA) San Francisco, California, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: The online Muslima exhibition, by the International Museum of Women, highlights the individuality of Muslim women and the rich diversity of their thoughts and contributions. The exhibit’s curator says one of the goals is ...
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• My Inscrutable Blog Post

  
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  Sometimes attempting to "explain" something that simply didnt make much sense in the first place only serves to further cloud an issue. I hope to avoid doing that here.  My New In 2007; Obsolete In 2013 post made sense, I hope, to the people I work directly with since it was designed to serve as a somewhere coded, ...
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• 3 Stupidest Things Ive Ever Heard

  
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  Dear Brain Trainers : We are taught using metaphors , parables and " sayings ." We call them sayings because someone once said them. That is not an assurance of their quality. It is just a statement of the obvious. To make things worse (or more worser yet still), the older they are, the more wisdom is to be ...
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• Time for confessions (to writers attention)

  
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  You know me, I am not very much into conformity, not that there is something wrong with it, its just not my thing; so I thought I would find other authors who share my enthusiasm toward the uncommon, the unexpected, the unusual way of writing a story and host them on my blog on a weekly basis. So, if you are a ...
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• Adverbs and Cliches in a Nutshell by Jessica Bell (Review)

  
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  Jessica Bell has a new writers advice and exercise book out titled, Adverbs and Clich és in a Nutshell: Demonstrated Subversions of Adverbs and Clich és into Gourmet Imagery. You might recognize Jessicas name--she is a great friend of WOW!, and we have featured her books before: Show and Tell in a Nutshell ...
  3 weeks ago

• Jessica Bell talks Adverbs and Cliches and I talk about a Bank of America foreclosure

  
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  The Insecure Writers Support Group can be joined by anyone. You can find the sign up sheet HERE . April 2013 finds me being less an insecure writer and more a "writer" who just happens to have some insecurities. The difference this time is Im meeting the biggest challenge head-on instead of running away from it. ...
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• 20 Pieces of Business Advice You Should Ignore

  
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  While we do our best to remember really good business advice others bestow upon us, we sadly can’t unhear the horrible clichéd advice that permeates our business culture. Purely through endless repetition we’ve been trained to believe it has value. In actuality, it’s dated, overly simplistic, and wouldn’t ...
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• THE SEVEN BASIC PLOTS by Christopher Booker

  
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  THE SEVEN BASIC PLOTS by Christopher Booker is a provocative book. The basic idea is that any story can be boiled down to one of seven plots: Overcoming the Monster Rags to Riches The Quest Voyage and Return Comedy Tragedy Rebirth What is excellent about this book is the amount of ...
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• Pink Suit

  
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  There is a strong possibility that the new screen version of Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ will be a dud. The trailer is spectacular, but so what? Trailers are works of art in themselves nowadays. I cannot count the number of times I have seen a movie on the back of an appealing preview and [...] Mens ...
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• Monday Craft Tips #14: Avoiding verbal tics

  
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  In the course of polishing the text, a writers task is to get rid of verbal tics that can turn into clichés.I make a list of words that I think I’m using too often so that I can go back and do a search to figure out just how many times I’m using these words.Here is a partial list of words from the manuscript Ive ...
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