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Category: <span>Words</span>

The Rules of Storytelling

June 21, 2009 gaisheagirl

There are many rules for writing.  Some are followed; some are ignored.  And, somehow, it seems in much of today’s…

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Posted in: humor, Life, publishing, Words, writing Filed under: fiction, Mark Twain, reading, Rules for Writing, Storytelling, Twain's Top Ten, Writing Rules

Awful Library Books

June 14, 2009 gaisheagirl

Love books? For a twist on GoodReads, try Awful Library Books.  It’s the antithesis of the former and often a trip…

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Posted in: Life, publishing, reading, Uncategorized, Words, writing Filed under: Awful Library Books, books, GoodReads, libraries, Library Books, Voting

Retribution

June 11, 2009 gaisheagirl

Do you know someone who pulled a practical joke on you?  Would you like to get back at them? Try…

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Posted in: Life, Words, writing Filed under: Funny Videos, humor, Practical Jokes, Word Games

Irony

June 5, 2009 gaisheagirl

“The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.” —Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Posted in: God, Life, Uncategorized, Words, writing Filed under: Atheists, Being Thankful, Dante, Irony, quotations

Happy Memorial Day

May 30, 2009 gaisheagirl

May 30 is the traditional day Memorial Day is celebrated.  And it is not in celebrating the start of summer…

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Posted in: God, Life, Words, writing Filed under: America, Giving Thanks, Holidays, Memorial Day, Soldiers, USA

Baby-Boomers

May 26, 2009 gaisheagirl

Any other observations??

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Posted in: Life, Words, writing Filed under: Baby-Boomers. The Onion, Cartoons, humor

The Editing Letter

May 18, 2009 gaisheagirl

You may think that writers still at the keyboard all day, every day.  Not true, though an author friend of…

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Posted in: humor, Life, publishing, Words, writing Filed under: Agents, editing, Funny Videos, Lara Zielin, The Editing Letter

Going Public

May 15, 2009 gaisheagirl

I am busy working on another edit of book #2.  I ask friends who love books to read my work.  It’s always amazing…

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Posted in: publishing, reading, Words, writing Filed under: Advice, editing, Marquis del la Grange

Mothers, Daughters

May 10, 2009 gaisheagirl

I’ve been both a mother and a daughter and I’ve had both a mother and a daughter (actually two of…

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Posted in: Life, Words, writing Filed under: Because I Love Her, books, Daughters, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Joyce Maynard, Karen Joy Fowler, Mother's Day, Mothers, reading, Susan Wiggs

The Writer's Work

May 8, 2009 gaisheagirl

“Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the…

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Posted in: Life, reading, Words, writing Filed under: Proust, quotations, Writing Quotations

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