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July 2011 - Posts
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two panels of an 6-panel painting by Gerhard Richter This painting covers most of one very large wall in the St. Louis Art Museum. For three days this week I was at our city's art museum, taking a workshop. Teacher-writers from three National Writing Read More...
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photo by udijw Fireblossom wrote a poem for me. (I won a contest posted on her blog. It was grueling...144 questions--gross!--each one requiring copius amounts of research. Whew! I'm glad it's over now.) I am going to print the poem and hang it up in Read More...
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Two nights ago a fly got into the house and tormented me for a while. Perhaps the huge spiders who have set up a campsite in my family room let them in? Anyway, in the wily way they have, the fly eluded me. I tried to swat it, I attempted to sneak up Read More...
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It's tragic when someone full of potential crashes and burns. It's even sadder when someone's life is all crash and burn. And so it was with Amy Winehouse. Such a soulful singer she was. So young, the possibilities for her were endless. It seems like Read More...
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Every week, Lisa Ricard Claro does it. She gives us a nudge. A prod. A poke. Write, she urges. Every week, she provides a photo (this one is brilliant--ha!), she writes a book blurb herself, and invites everyone to link theirs to the group of blurbs, Read More...
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photo by Blacklisted Janet Fitch, author of best-seller White Oleander and Paint it Black, has her own blog, but today, she's dropped off a special treat for writers. If you go here, you can get her take on developing characters, how she handles writing Read More...
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Every week Tess Kincaid hosts Magpie Tales. She provides the photo, we provide the creativity in the form of a vignette or poem. This is the 74th Magpie. Being consistent for more than a year is awe-inspiring. There are probably weeks that Tess would Read More...
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It's Book Blurb Friday again, hosted by the lovely and talented Lisa Ricard Claro on her blog, Writing in the Buff. The object is to hone our talents at writing book blurbs. After all, someday, some of us will really have best-selling books that will Read More...
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I admit it. I love the show So You Think You Can Dance? and I make the admission without a smidgen of shame or guilt. photo by THA J-SQUAD My friends think it's ironic, my fondness, because I am notoriously not a dancer. I cannot do Richard Simmons' "Sweatin' Read More...
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Tracy Seeley, author of My Ruby Slippers: The Road Back to Kansas was kind enough to do a guest post today. She also generously provided a copy of her book to WOW-Women On Writing to give away in a random drawing and I was lucky enough to win it. photo Read More...
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photo by Akida My skin is flawless. It really is. It reminds me of porcelain. When I hear talk about the complexion of certain actresses, how perfect it is, I think, 'My skin is like that too. My face has no evidence of pores...' That is, until I got Read More...
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Exciting news! On July 12, Tracy Seeley will be doing a guest post on my blog. Tracy is the author of My Ruby Slippers: The Road Back to Kansas. Her post will help writers who find their words are just not working for them. (Don't we all have uncooperative Read More...
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Every Monday (is it Monday already?) Tess Kincaid offers up a delectable dessert: Magpie Tales. Go to Magpie to read the other delicious tales---poems and vignettes--and link your own to the bountiful buffet of dishes. Wheat Field with Rising Sun, Vincent Read More...
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photo by houtlust Do we need to be able to speak German to understand this? I think not... Okay, ladies. Gather 'round...This one's for you. It's time for our monthly "meeting." And for those who no longer have any monthly "meetings," join us, please. Read More...
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"First Draft" by Doug Savage I think Doug Savage is baiting me. He generously allows bloggers to use his comics, but just one a month. At the end of June he posted two cartoons which I connected to as a writer. I shared one before the month ended, saved Read More...
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Yes, it's Friday again. Time to write a blurb for a no chance for this one potential best-seller. The photo this week is supplied by Becky Povich. The multi-talented Lisa Ricard Claro hosts this meme every week on her blog. Your book can be any genre, Read More...
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