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• The Odyssey of Ulysses S. Groan: Part Ten (Story Story Die!)

  
  Let's have a mind and raise flowers. — Authority: 122
  Whisper into someone’s perfumed ear with heaving chest tomorrow’s weather report and find quickly the difference of classes of communication. What you say and its context matters. We affirm this by thoroughly despising the dinner party’s bore, the know-it-all, the gossip, the ‘did you see that squirrel?’ ...
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• Maybe Theres A God Above

  
  My Confessions — Authority: 106
  I wanted to go out to the market this morning. Chimelle usually does all of that for us, the shopping and whatnot, but I wanted to go to the market myself. Idve gone with her if she was home, but she was seeing her friend at the baths; she cant be underfoot all the time, I want her to have a life. There was just no ...
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• Wednesdays 3WW

  
  Surface Tension — Authority: 128
  The words over at Three Word Wednesday are hinder, journey and rigid. Journey My father sits at the kitchenette, drinking strong black tea in a chipped China cup. Next to the door is a steamer trunk, ancient and slightly moldy smelling; it’s massive brass latches dulled from abuse. Before I can inquire, father ...
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• What should be on a "Personal MFA in Creative Writing" reading list?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 636
  What titles should be on a "Personal MFA in Creative Writing Fiction" reading list? You dont have the money/time/inclination to actually attend a MFA program for creative writing, instead you just want a reading list to plow through on your own time. What titles should be on that reading list? Non-fiction, fiction, ...
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• Christmas letters and other fictions of the season

  
  Novelists, Inc. Blog — Authority: 422
  Each holiday season for the past seven or eight years, I’ve received a card from a family we’ll call the Craigs. They followed me through a major move with a few temporary addresses in between. And they haven’t dropped me from their card list over all these years, even though I have never respondedWhy haven’t ...
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• Christmas letters and other fictions of the season

  
  Novelists, Inc. Blog — Authority: 422
  Each holiday season for the past seven or eight years, I’ve received a card from a family we’ll call the Craigs. They followed me through a major move with a few temporary addresses in between. And they haven’t dropped me from their card list over all these years, even though I have never respondedWhy haven’t ...
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• Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story

  
  Harlem Writer — Authority: 99
  
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• Writing Fiction & Poetry : How To Generate Short Story Ideas

  
  Science Fiction Buzz Blog — Authority: 149
  Short story ideas are generated from the idea of a central character trying to solve a problem and encountering change of some sort; they also include a clear beginning, middle and end. Get ideas t. . .   Mail this post Technorati Tags: fiction , Generate , ideas , poetry , short , story , writing
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• Alternate reality

  
  Storytellers Unplugged — Authority: 531
  I’m not a 13-year-old boy from Western Maine, but I pretended to be one on the internet. That sounds a lot worse than it really is. It wasn’t an undercover sting to flush out predators. It was part of an alternate reality game (ARG) run by Scribner to promote Under the Dome . In September, I was asked if I ...
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• Wednesdays Three Word Wednesday

  
  Surface Tension — Authority: 128
  The words over at Three Word Wednesday are bleak, hiccup and queer. Time Machine I return from the university to find my parents have converted my room into a massive time machine. Orange power cords run everywhere, to every wall socket and snake down the hallway and disappear down the steps. Two gunmetal gray ...
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• Writer’s Wednesday : Time spent working equals output of work.

  
  On A Limb with Claudia — Authority: 122
  Let’s face it. We all do it. Maybe we get up early, or set aside time on a Saturday, or even stay up late at night to write. We’re actually excited to sit down at the computer then… Something shiny comes along. We remember the mortgage is due tomorrow, dinner needs prepping and our friends on Twitter or Plurk ...
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• This Is Your Promised Land

  
  My Confessions — Authority: 106
  All my life I lived with my grandmother in her trailer, and we traveled with the carnival. My grandmother was tiny and wizened, her shrunken face all giant liquid black eyes and expressive little china-dolls mouth with a tiny little button nose bumped up between them. She had a braid of snow-white hair so long she ...
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• AN OFFICER AND...

  
  alien romances — Authority: 123
  2010 is going to be the start of a rather busy on-line workshop year for me. I’m starting by co-teaching a workshop on building space/fantasy militaries with a beta-reader of mine, Michael L. Helfstein. USNR (retired). You can find a complete list on my website in NEWS . But I want to talk about—and, yes, ...
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• When I Was Not So Strong, You Know

  
  My Confessions — Authority: 106
  I tried the trick that my father had shown me a few weeks later. I needed money, and my mother wouldnt give me any. All the kids from the regular high school were going to the dance, so of course I wanted to go too. I went down to the drugstore where I girl I knew slightly from the neighborhood worked a cash register. ...
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• A Saturday burst of fiction

  
  Surface Tension — Authority: 128
  And it came out all tender and sweet. Huh. Instrument Her wish was that their daughter be introduced to music. She’d told him her hope, her desire, clutching his hands tight as the cancer coursed through her body. Their daughter had reached an age that seemed appropriate. He readied her for the music fair at ...
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• Your Family Has A History — Pass It On

  
  Fuel Your Writing — Authority: 117
  Your Family Has A History – Pass It On As a young boy growing up in the 1960s, I was privileged to know a few of the great old storytellers. One was my great-uncle, Henry Shoop. He was born “out in the boonies” as we say here in Missouri, on a farm near the small town of Cherryville. I met him in the sixties ...
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• Never Seen Eyes So Blue

  
  My Confessions — Authority: 106
  This is how my father made his living: He took me to one of those almost-restaurant/nearly-ice cream parlor deals down by the highway. “Order whatever you want,” he told me affably. Given the liberty, I ordered a huge banana split. I remember that he had a big milkshake of some offbeat flavor, like coffee or ...
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• What is going on with book prices?

  
  Sheryl Gwyther - author — Authority: 111
  In a recent PASS IT ON (the Australian children’s writers’ on-line, networking newsletter) , Val N posed the question… What is going on with book prices ? Like when Big W and Coles and their offshoots slug it out by discounting the popular, mass-market new releases; and cut ...
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• Wednesdays Three Word Wednesday

  
  Surface Tension — Authority: 128
  The prompt words over at Three Word Wednesday are grave, lithe and offend. Meat Locker Smoke hangs over her head, gray storm clouds building each time she exhales a lungful of air. Despite the baggy clothing, she’s lithe, slick, boyish. She hides her angles to them to heighten the allure. She powders her face, ...
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• How To Start Writing A Book That People Would Love To Read

  
  Quick Penmanship — Authority: 142
  How to start writing a book is the question that every new writer is faced with as they think of using their creative ability to write content that people would like to read. It is important to follow certain basic rules when writing a book, as that would make the whole process extremely simple.
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