Tag: writing
group name: themeltingpot
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July 25, 2008 06:29 PM EDT --
WATCHING RHINE
It just lies here in its big
curve through Basel
on an early autumn
evening, possibly wanting
to have changed its course
a few times over the years
but maybe not minding . . . more
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June 26, 2007 12:39 AM EDT --
There was once an eight year old girl who wasn't pretty. She wore thick glasses so heavy they rubbed sores on her nose where they sat. The other kids called her four eyes. She had long, stringy red . . . more
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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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November 13, 2007 10:33 AM EST --
I know, like any other writer, how frustrating it is when you want to write something and nothing rings a bell. Sometimes you have a beginning not an end. Sometimes the . . . more
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February 07, 2007 09:00 PM EST --
Now, I know that not many people can say that here in this virtual town of Gather, and live to tell the tale, but I must write this because of something I read in another article published here recently. . . . 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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February 22, 2008 04:56 PM EST --
Sometimes a phrase somewhere can bring out a story. I was reading John Beck's article and this line " .... soft, qualitative something which brings smiles and tears" hit me . . . more
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November 29, 2006 06:15 AM EST --
Hello Gatherer's,
Welcome to the Melting Pot Short Form Writing Group! Thanks to everyone who has joined The Melting Pot, and to those who have published with us. Let's have fun, and be . . . more
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April 10, 2007 04:53 PM EDT --
Jobs That My Cats Are Not Qualified To Do...
Tupperware Representative
Autopyrotechnician (firework maker)
Futurist
Prime Minister
Arborist
Nanny
Security Guard
Priest
Mason
Dentist
Nutritionist . . . more
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August 22, 2007 12:27 AM EDT --
My Hero and I thought we had finally reached the end, a conclusion. As we looked at each other in silence, waiting for our bankruptcy attorney to finish talking to that other attorney, we both seemed to . . . more
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September 30, 2007 10:32 AM EDT --
The Woman Afraid of Dogs
I envision her lying in her bed at night, shoulders sharp, clavicles screaming, and her eyes squeezed shut in anger at ambient starlight.
I see her sitting at the kitchen table . . . more
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April 04, 2007 12:46 PM EDT --
They call to me,
are a wellspring inside of me,
and I could not stop them
even if I tried;
Words flow
like a stream,
gentle to my soul,
guided by my spirit,
shared with those
who care . . . more
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October 12, 2007 10:08 AM EDT --
I got picked up yesterday morning along with a bunch of my peers and then dropped right back off at the grocery store. I was a little disappointed and I was looking spiffy and new and I just . . . more
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July 11, 2007 05:04 AM EDT --
I paused on the path. The two coffee cups were hot enough that I had to adjust my grip. For a moment the park seemed to be empty in a manner that only Winter could manage: dreary, devoid of people . . . more
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January 23, 2007 04:01 AM EST --
The sunlight flickers through the branches of a cherry blossom tree. I have walked this way many times before; the open park between two brick buildings, two benches and a pathway to the nearby city . . . more
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December 10, 2006 05:29 AM EST --
This article was written for the Writer's workshop but I have modified it slightly for general applicability and I am posting it to some other groups that might find it useful.
In looking . . . 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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August 12, 2008 09:35 PM EDT --
Destination R & R
Amtrak bullet train
humming and swaying
up the Eastern Seaboard,
but I'm not hurried
or harried.
I read.
I nap.
I strreeetch my . . . more
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January 22, 2007 11:42 AM EST --
I slide my unsteady hand across the page of paper remembering when words would ignite the story without reason or rules, no design or destination. The words played on paper like musical notes and . . . more
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August 24, 2007 09:10 AM EDT --
Before I incarnated to earth as a human, I served in the etheral world as a Muse. Actually, I was an apprentice, learning my trade. Early in my apprenticship I had a frightening . . . more
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