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• Thanksgiving dreams: kamikaze turkeys and human sacrifice

  
  When Falls the Coliseum — Authority: 523
  When the phone rang at 3:30 this morning, my first reaction was to throw it at the wall. Then I realized that a phone call in the middle of the night, just a few hours removed from an embarrassment of Thanksgiving gluttony, could only signal tragedy. “Dude, we’re fucked! We’re all going to die!” It was my ...
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• Three Word Thursday #38

  
  Quintessentially Quilly — Authority: 526
  Will appear on December 3rd, 2009.~*~The 3WT #38 words will be: aquabib; ficulnean; brochityGot it? Good! In that case: Your story is due on: December 3rd, 2009
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• Nov 26 09: Wonder

  
  Musings from the Newly Hatched — Authority: 128
  Today’s Poetic Asides prompt was “ to write a thankful poem,” not surprising on this day. I like my mother’s new version of our greeting – “Happy Giving Thanks Day.”     My sheets are worn and clean;  I feel your back pressed warm to mine. And in your breath I hear the ocean swell. I wondered ...
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• This is how you get a literary agent or publisher

  
  Write for Your Life — Authority: 104
  This post points you to a fantastic guide to putting a book proposal together, followed by my own account of unconventionally attempting to get a literary agent. Left: The first of many devices used to write my novel. Right: Reading at Hay in 2004. You know when you spend a couple of weeks thinking about ...
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• Christmas Ode

  
  Authspot — Authority: 541
            Photo courtesy photobucket.com Christmas Ode   Whenever it gets near Christmas, I’m not alone to feel the joy Stores are fill with suggestions on the list of every girl and boy. Christmas trees are lined on the streets even where I food shop I smell the evergreen fragrances before my ...
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• Good Things Happening

  
  Humanyms — Authority: 122
  Part of Saturday will be the fall edition of the Ottawa small press fair at the Jack Purcell community Center at Gilmour and Elgin. It’s in its 15th year now. There are all kinds of uncommon things. Come for the paper, magazines, chapbooks, spine-books and ideas, stay for the social. Apt 9 will be there [...]
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• Video Game Design – Do You Have What It Takes To Design Games?

  
  video game reviews — Authority: 146
  If you’re an avid video gamer and while sitting at home playing your favorite game, you think to yourself, “I could do this better”, video game design might be the perfect job for you someday. But there are some key skills you’ll need to have before you can enter the field and truly make an impact on the video ...
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• once upon a falling star

  
  the ethereal dreamer — Authority: 126
  She stares up. The twilight sky is in its final phase of turning deep indigo, the dark blue complementing the barely visible white clouds. Then with a startling realization, she takes in the scene. From her vantage point, she could see the darkening sky, the moon with its fuzzy edges and a star, just one. The five ...
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• Prompt #736: before the feast

  
  Easystreet Prompts — Authority: 129
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• MA Week Nine - Amis

  
  not exactly true — Authority: 119
  We read A Clockwork Orange this week - one of my favourite books from my teenage years, and one I still love.  I read it and then I find myself thinking in Nadsat; people on the street become horrorshow malenky malchicks, and Im a starry ptista (that one kicked in when we went to a club on Saturday night and realised ...
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• Short Story Competition 4

  
  SCC English — Authority: 138
  The last of this collection of Junior Cert stories, all starting with the same sentence. Sadhbh Sheeran wrote this story, which opens :- From the other side of the wall I could hear the footsteps getting closer. It was definitely now or never. I took a few deep breaths to steady myself. Then I started to hit and ...
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• Writers Workshop: Girlfriends

  
  Mama's Losin' It — Authority: 128
  Write A Poem About Something You Are Thankful For. I spent everyday with them. Thinking about them. Talking to them. Laughing with them. Gossiping. I thought the only people in the world who understood me were my friends. And then we grew up. Realized we werent going to be neighbors for life ...
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• From Worldwide Freelance Writer

  
  Donna Magazine — Authority: 129
  FEATURE ARTICLEFive Ways To Shine As A Professional WriterBy Dana BlozisWith the growth of social media and marketing techniques likeonline article marketing, it seems that everyone is a writer of onesort or another. In fact, Ive read a handful of articles thatassure the reading public that anyone can write. While ...
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• 58,413 words in 25 days, with more to follow

  
  The Spicy Cauldron — Authority: 130
  Okay, so we all know bragging is not the most appealing of things to do. It’s only a one time thing, so bear with me okay? I’ve had my words so far validated by the text robot on the NaNoWriMo website and it returned this lovely image and a link for me to download my winner’s certificate. I also get access to ...
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• BLACKOUT POETRY WORKSHOP AT ANGELO STATE

  
  AUSTIN KLEON — Authority: 124
  Last week Meg and I drove out to San Angelo, Texas . My friend Laurence Musgrove had invited me out to Angelo State to give a talk to a poetry class and conduct a blackout poetry workshop. The idea was to have a kind of “warm up” presentation to get ideas for any book tour I might do. This is the first time I ...
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• Wednesdays Three Word Wednesday

  
  Surface Tension — Authority: 424
  The words over at Three Word Wednesday are give, obvious and thanks. Thanks I go down to dinner, expecting to suffer through another meal where my parents mine me for information about my day while they ignore one another. Instead, I hear laughter and a low chattering. Around the table are six children, a bit ...
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• Silly Haiku Wednesday 11.25.09

  
  Quintessentially Quilly — Authority: 526
  ~*~Jenn from, You Know … that blog?, hosts Silly Haiku Wednesday.This week’s theme is Parents/Parenting.~*~Parents. Children bloombecause of them, or in spiteof them. Parenting.~*~
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• Its all in your head

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  It’s all in your head... That is, the way we each see the world around us is determined by how we engage with it. This message was driven home to me in an unexpected way. A few years ago I took a creative writing class in which the professor asked us to describe the same scene twice, the first time from the ...
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• OneWord - Spotlight

  
  Surface Tension — Authority: 424
  The prompt word over at OneWord is "spotlight." He felt like he was under a spotlight, the brightness making pinpoints of his irises, raising beads of sweat across his forehead, down the middle of his his back. The questioners were back there, watching, waiting for the tiniest slip. He felt like he would crack, but ...
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• Prompt #734: waiting for an answer

  
  Easystreet Prompts — Authority: 129
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