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July 03, 2009 01:38 PM EDT (featured date: July 24, 2009) — Chapter 1   Sitting in the corner watching. Always watching. He longed to be a part of Life. Knowing he must make the effort, Life wouldn't come to him, he needed to . . . more
July 03, 2009 02:55 PM EDT (featured date: July 24, 2009) — Chapter 2   The storm clouds on Howie's face had disappeared by the time they got back to the station. Pulling into the parking lot Howie turned to Frank.   . . . more
July 11, 2009 12:12 PM EDT (featured date: July 24, 2009) — Someone asked for the most misspelled words in English. This retired English teacher happily obliges. The two fun ones I frequently marked are "idot" for "idiot" and "nervious" for "nervous." And then . . . more
January 30, 2009 06:38 PM EST (featured date: January 30, 2009) —  Dialogue should do a number of things for your story.   It should help move the story forward.   It should also help define the characters, and help flesh out their relationships with . . . more
January 18, 2009 05:14 PM EST (featured date: January 19, 2009) — A few weeks ago I went to one of our favorite family owned restaurants. After we'd ordered and got our food, I noticed that unlike the norm, this time they'd not added the colorful bit of garnish . . . more
January 11, 2009 10:31 AM EST (featured date: January 11, 2009) — In both high school and college it was drilled into me that if I wanted to write anything, I had to have an outline.   Even if I was writing a letter to my aunt, I should start with an outline; . . . more
August 13, 2008 12:34 PM EDT (featured date: August 13, 2008) — In my last post , I remarked that we were going to look at the most common use of periods in fiction after terminating a sentence: ellipses. First, a clarification. Ellipses is the plural of both . . . more
July 06, 2008 08:46 PM EDT (featured date: July 06, 2008) — Critque wanted. This is a prologue to a work in progress.  I will be publishing the first two chapters this month.  The purpose of printing it here on Gather is to receive honest feedback, suggestions . . . more
May 06, 2008 11:46 AM EDT (featured date: May 08, 2008) — How do you find inspiration for a novel?   More than likely, you won't find inspiration-inspiration will find you .   I've learned you can't go looking for inspiration-inspiration . . . more
April 17, 2008 08:23 AM EDT (featured date: April 22, 2008) — Want editors and agents to think your Pulitzer material? Want your readers to get callouses from turning your pages? Here's a hint from a long ago writing conference that works like magic with . . . more
March 08, 2008 04:15 PM EST (featured date: March 17, 2008) — Everyone who's a reader loves that anticipatory thrill of opening a new book, settling into the corner of your overstuffed sofa, clearing one's mind, and sinking into the first line, the opening . . . more
March 14, 2008 07:52 AM EDT (featured date: March 17, 2008) — If you can remember aardvark -- a very easy noun -- you'll always remember that affect (with an a is a verb) and effect (with an e) is a noun. Why? Because the first letters of " a . . . more
January 10, 2007 06:57 AM EST (featured date: February 07, 2007) —    I shall return from the moribund with a brief note on word usage, if only to prove that I still live. For whatever reason, I have been asked three times in the last few weeks whether the . . . more
January 11, 2007 11:33 AM EST (featured date: February 07, 2007) — I usually prefer to throw things out.  I try not to add to the clutter in my house.  Also, I'll often throw out old journals because I'm no longer interested in what's written in . . . more
January 15, 2007 11:31 AM EST (featured date: February 07, 2007) — Presented here for you is a list of resources writers can access on the world wide web:   Fiction Writing Internet Resources <hr> Artist Showcase and Free Promotion by PeopleTalk PeopleTalk . . . more
February 05, 2007 11:03 AM EST (featured date: February 07, 2007) — National Book Award Winner Alice McDermott describes writing prose as a never-ending endeavor. "Prose is never finished. It's a process that only ends when you allow it to. You can always improve . . . more
November 30, 2006 07:17 AM EST (featured date: November 30, 2006) — In part one, I introduced the role of the semicolon in separating independent clauses, either without conjunctions or with adverbial conjunctions. Recall that the rhythm of the passage, the degree of connection . . . more
November 02, 2006 12:15 AM EST (featured date: November 04, 2006) — Challenge yourself to set the scene in no more than 250 words, using a window.  Perhaps it's a window you look through every day, or one in a car, van or truck.  Or maybe this window is unobtainable, . . . more
August 24, 2006 09:31 PM EDT (featured date: August 25, 2006) — I am issuing a new challenge for the Writing Tips group.  Here it is:  Write a short story or scene using second person (you) point of view.  This is a rarely used point of view for fiction, . . . more
August 18, 2006 06:03 AM EDT (featured date: August 20, 2006) — Do you like to write? Do you have a story to tell? Are you frustrated by a seeming lack of interest in your articles? Never fear! Not everyone can be Pulitzer Prize winning author but by following some . . . more
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