Tag: books
group name: themeltingpot
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March 10, 2008 07:27 PM EDT --
I just got done reading "True Notebooks" by Mark Salzman. A published writer stuck on a juvenile delinquent character in a book he is writing approaches a friend that teaches writing . . . more
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March 26, 2007 08:48 PM EDT --
As the bright blood red half sun began to rise and flood the small sand block building with sunlight like high tide, Vilov sat in front of the map wrack sifting through hundreds of maps. Vilov sat . . . more
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October 14, 2007 01:37 PM EDT --
Dear People,
Why bother writing a book report or small piece on a book if you can say no more than the following:
"Title" by Someone is a good book. I enjoyed it. You . . . more
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January 04, 2007 05:14 PM EST --
Spell Check is not infallible!
There is a phenomenon that I have noticed more and more in recent years, and I’m certain is directly related to an over reliance on computers
There was a . . . more
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March 19, 2007 12:15 AM EDT --
Here is my first attempt of putting my stuff out there for the world wide web to do with what they will. I used to have a really good writing community--flesh and blood and all that--but life has gotten . . . more
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May 05, 2007 09:24 PM EDT --
Proloque
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June 24, 2008 05:43 PM EDT --
I'm getting pretty close to self publishing my first novel. Naturally, I would like to get some reviews of it to place on my website to help promote it. It seems like a fairly common thing for authors . . . more
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January 27, 2008 06:23 PM EST --
I took some photos this afternoon that I may use for the cover of my Katrina Wedding book. It was just an idea I had to get a wedding photo and make it look like it was in the rubble of a house that . . . more
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May 16, 2008 04:42 PM EDT --
Since I first started reading, I've rarely used a bookmarker. I don't really know why I didn't; I still don't know why. I've received many bookmarkers . . . more
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November 29, 2006 04:59 AM EST --
The focus of this article is the semicolon, but it is impossible to have an intelligent discussion of this punctuation mark without some understanding of the other punctuations that can be used to separate . . . more
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January 19, 2007 06:34 PM EST --
It's been announced by The Baltimore Review. It’s been mentioned in the Maryland Writers Association news letter, on the Write Here Write Now website, in Write and Publish Your Book and . . . more
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March 26, 2007 08:41 PM EDT --
It was the dead of night in a small town in Egypt. The two full moons in the sky shined down on the ground giving it a grayish hue and casting dark black hole-like shadows all over. And sitting in one . . . more
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April 18, 2007 07:26 PM EDT --
"I never thought id see the day when the Aztecs would be proven right." Vilov said still in melancholic shock. Var sat on his bed totally silent. "All those centuries ago, they were the . . . more
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January 26, 2008 10:32 AM EST --
In the past, I've self published a couple of short story collections through Lulu. Given that the combined 'sales' (freebies for friends, mostly) were only about 30 copies, I knew better to . . . more
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October 05, 2008 05:50 PM EDT --
When I am reading, I always get excited upon reaching the last 100 pages of the novel. It's like I know I am in the home stretch. Even though I chain-read books one after the other, I always feel . . . more
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May 26, 2007 08:26 PM EDT --
(For the group of Writing Tips: CRITIQUE WANTED.)
"A day in sweats" -- yup! that's how I'd say it about today's temperature. So . . . more
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July 23, 2007 02:11 AM EDT --
She couldn’t believe it was all over. Each character had been her creation. The entire world inside the novels had been born in her imagination. She reached the last page, sealed . . . more
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July 17, 2007 01:54 PM EDT --
I rode in the passenger seat of the Vette, the big boxes balanced on my lap and stacked high enough to block my view out the windshield. The cars weren't made for carrying anything more than two people. . . . more
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January 19, 2007 04:17 AM EST --
"How much longer before this thing opens?"
"Ah," Greg twisted in the seat and looked at the large digital clock. The leather creaked against his naked flesh. "Still . . . more
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April 27, 2007 11:48 PM EDT --
With Var at the reins and Vilov sitting in the back of the carriage they were off. The three legged horse galloping through the soft dry sand with precision and almost grace. They were fast leaving the . . . more
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