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The Art of Writing Short Stories
Every year my husband and I go to a gaming convention called Gen Con. He goes to game, I mostly go just to get out-of-town and see what fun I can get into while I’m there. It’s known as “the best four...
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Don’t Throw Away the TV
I read, a lot. I wish I could make a profession out of reading, that would be some form of Heaven for me. I wake up and take my book with me into the living room. I go to work and sit it on my desk. At...
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Writers Anonymous
As a kid and as an adolescent, writing was my escape. I suffered from major social anxiety. I wasn’t one of the popular kids in school. I didn’t date. I was an average student because I was afraid that...
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An Interview With Evil Girlfriend Media’s Mastermind
Evil Girlfriend Media is a small publisher that releases sci-fi, fantasy, and horror works, and they have just celebrated their 1st birthday! Happy Birthday to them! I of course am a big believer that...
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Writing Competitions and Opportunities Digest – Edition 30
Welcome to the 30th Edition of our weekly writing competitions and opportunities digest. If you missed the last edition, you can see it here. Happy Monday everyone, are you ready for another week of...
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Gifts for Writers
Valentine’s Day is coming around the bend. This is a great chance to show the writer in your life how much you love and support his or her work. Or, if you’re a writer, why not treat yourself this...
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The Writer’s Chatroom
As writers we utilize a good assortment of tools when plying our trade. We take advantage of everything from dictionaries to computers to the internet. We often make use of fellow authors or friends...
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To Rhyme or Not To Rhyme
Confession time: My current ‘bathroom book’ is a 1946 OUP version of ‘The Poems of John Milton’. In it I read an explanation of why ‘Paradise Lost’ was not rhymed poetry. (The editorial ‘The Verse’ was...
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Formulas and frames
I was teaching a unit on legend writing recently and, in order to ensure that the children included all the features of a legend, we used writing frames. For those of you that have never encountered...
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Teaching Language through Creative Writing
Children of all cultures know story. Whether they’ve been read to, read on their own, or listened to a storyteller – people connect and learn through the familiar tool of story. In 2010, the US Census...
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