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  • Writing Activities Re: Ultra-short Fiction

    The breath rasps in my lungs as I pound along the tarmac; no time to stop and duck into an alley for a few puffs on the inhaler in my ...

    Mar 29, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: name association

    The village drunk in a fantasy faux-historical novel, his wits addled by war - an old man with white hair who dispenses wisdom and foolishness in equal measures to anyone ...

    Mar 28, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: Title Feedback

    Hmm...a thoroughly modern novel, told perhaps through the differing mediums of txts and newspaper articles and journals, about an incredibly gifted yet socially inept musician who can only express him

    Mar 28, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: name association

    Sorry, not a fantasy character for me. The daughter of a pair of polish immigrants circa 1990, her first name anglicized to make it easier for her classmates to pronounce, ...

    Mar 25, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: Speedwriting

    This may get an awful response. But basically, this: You have 2 minutes (time yourself) to write as much as you can, coherently , on the subject given at the ...

    Feb 18, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: Make Up The Worst Possible Opening Line Ever

    How about commerical sell-outs? "I did it!" I cried, tears running down my cheeks like the fully-posable fire engines in my Trash Toys playset, available at most major retailers for ...

    Nov 5, 2006
  • Media Reviews Re: Les Miserables

    has anyone seen/listened to the musical? It's great, possibly not as good as the book but without a lot of the boring bits. We did some of the music in ...

    Nov 3, 2006


“A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.”
— Phyllis A. Whitney, Guide to Fiction Writing