Tag: writing
group name: writeful
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August 12, 2007 11:50 AM EDT --
R each the stars and fly me across the moon
Abeautiful melody pass through this destiny
J ust for pretending the sadness smile
E nclose the dreams for all memories
N ear me a fairies sleep like an angel . . . more
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March 04, 2008 09:53 AM EST --
When my kids were young we often ended our day with the best & worst game.... where I would ask them what the best thing about ___________ was - and then what was the worst - or vice versa.
___________ . . . more
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March 17, 2007 02:24 PM EDT --
I've been watching with some amusement as people have commented on the various stories in the First Chapter's contest and I've come to a couple of conclusions.
1. Really bad writers . . . more
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June 08, 2007 03:59 PM EDT --
I recently signed up for a free, six-week online fiction writing class. After a year of 'stalling' (or was it two?), I needed yet another kick-in-the-pants to motivate myself to sit down and write. . . . more
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March 10, 2007 08:40 PM EST --
Writing has been something I always did no matter where the winds of life took me. I always wrote. It could be a paragraph here or there, an idea for a new piece of technology or how I felt about a particular . . . more
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March 19, 2007 06:26 PM EDT --
It's the job you've always dreamed of and now you have a chance - a real shot at making your dream come true. You've got a job interview with the boss that can make it all happen. . . . more
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January 28, 2008 01:22 PM EST --
After the services, dead but not dead, I sat in our only armchair with my hands holding either arm. The upholstery was green tweed. Or big blue flowers on beige. Or brick-red . . . more
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September 04, 2007 01:25 PM EDT --
I called you Willow Woman after our creek trek.
Bound bundle of leafed stems tied at your belt,
Strong walking stick in hand, sprig of willow
Stuck through your straw hatband-
You posed for . . . more
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July 17, 2007 07:45 PM EDT --
My youngest son crawls beneath my gramma's quilt these mountain summer mornings. I brace myself to brave the scuffed pine floor in my bare feet as he flops on his stomach and places vintage comics . . . more
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August 08, 2007 09:03 PM EDT --
Hello friends
I am writing a story that involves some history. It is recent history, the 1930's and 1940's and before.
In some of the details of this history I find only one referrance. . . . more
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March 13, 2008 11:28 PM EDT --
"Claude Steel" is stuck in the mud, at least figuratively. I've been tired and sick and busy with working and writing all these articles and blogs and have only gotten to the story . . . more
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February 26, 2007 12:55 AM EST --
I read a lot of beginner writer's work and I'm often asked for my thoughts. One of the things I've noticed recently is a tendancy to over write. Writers who have no confidence in . . . more
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July 15, 2007 02:49 PM EDT --
One of the most useful mnemonic devices in my life is the "I Before E" rule. I often have trouble with transposed letters, and sometimes neither "ei" nor "ie" looks right . . . more
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May 29, 2007 02:56 PM EDT --
Greetings fellow AC Members! I’m hoping that everyone on Gather, who also publishes their work on Associated Content will stop by and read this brief article.
I would like for each of you to leave . . . more
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August 13, 2007 12:00 PM EDT --
The following is based is based on information taken from excellent Complete Idiot's Guide to Literature by Jay Stevenson Ph D.
I compiled these notes in order to discover where I fit into the world . . . more
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February 23, 2007 02:33 AM EST --
One of our fellow Gather members recently posted a message about how she was taken for a large amount of money by a "Publisher" wanting to publish her poetry. This is such a common story, . . . more
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April 29, 2007 12:20 PM EDT --
I just picked up a copy of The Ruby Knight, the second book in the Elenium series. I had forgotten how good a writer the man is and how compelling his characters. I have just completed two books in the . . . more
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March 27, 2008 10:13 PM EDT --
Houston we have a treatment
I spent the latter end of last week staring at the outline to "Slambang," as well as the beat sheet a la "Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies." (great book . . . more
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February 18, 2008 12:23 PM EST --
I've been reading the novels of a bestselling author, trying to figure out the secret of her success, and for the life of me, I don't see it. Perhaps it's hidden beneath her appalling . . . more
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August 28, 2007 09:53 PM EDT --
A young man I know fell off an outcropping of granite this summer, fell eight vertical feet, fell into a six-week land of cast and crutch and exotic metal pins. Shattered tibia. Surgery. June plans as . . . more
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