Tag: writing
member name: Aileen F.
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June 24, 2006 05:55 PM EDT --
After finishing my own laundry this morning, I set to work on my daughter's. It needed doing. It's not as if she can't do it during this, her week off. But I wasn't doing anything else, . . . more
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June 26, 2006 12:10 AM EDT --
In the circuitous way of life, I have wandered back home. In reviewing the things in my life that I wanted to change, it became clear there was one change that was completely within my power. In the five . . . more
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July 16, 2006 01:54 AM EDT --
I watched Skeleton Key with my daughter and son-in-law tonight. We enjoyed the movie, plenty of suspense and not what we expected the "evil" to be. The ending was quite a bit different than what . . . more
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August 06, 2006 02:16 PM EDT --
If you could achieve one thing in life, what would it be?
It's Sunday and I have my TV tuned to whatever race is available. Today it's NASCAR's Allstate 400 at Indy, the Brickyard, the Indianapolis . . . more
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May 25, 2006 02:14 PM EDT --
I suppose the title shouldn't be "Why I Write", but why I post my writing here. I write to be read. I write to make someone feel. I don't imagine my words will change the world, but I . . . more
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July 12, 2006 03:46 PM EDT --
The job hunt has been rough, and I had polished my skills and resume until I felt like some of the silver plating was wearing thin. I decided my look could use an update, since I've been growing out . . . more
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August 06, 2006 02:59 PM EDT --
Years back while studying with the Writer's Digest Novel Writing School, I was also writing short fiction. There were some stories that only merited a few pages, and since short stories finish much . . . more
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September 11, 2006 12:18 AM EDT --
A good number of years have passed since I spent any amount of time in the city. There were always things I loved about L.A., but many that I hated. Bakersfield is large but still carries off a lot of . . . more
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December 03, 2006 10:08 PM EST --
Today was my sister's annual open house; friends, family and business connections all come. A few years back my sister came in contact with our mother's cousin, who lives here in the San Fernando . . . more
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August 03, 2006 01:08 AM EDT --
Seasons of Love by Jonathan Larson
525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear.
525,600 minutes - how do you measure, measure a year?
In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee.
In inches, . . . more
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June 17, 2006 06:48 PM EDT --
I have had a bit more free time of late (all right, it's time I should be using to write but am not!) and I have been looking for new things to read. I get tired of the high-rated articles that are . . . more
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August 02, 2006 12:01 PM EDT --
One key to the marketability of your writing is your ability to summarize the story in a single sentence. The clarity and succinctness of that sentence tells the agent or editor a lot about your writing. . . . more
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April 05, 2006 07:35 AM EDT --
It is always important to make a good first impression, right? Just last week before I hopped in the car to head to the airport and meet the man I hoped would fall head over heels for me, our corporate . . . more
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July 16, 2006 07:30 PM EDT --
citrus aura
presages her arrival
vanilla essence
emanates from her skin
pomegranate lips
part in a sigh
chocolate eyes'
worldless entreaty
bite me
more
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December 18, 2006 04:32 PM EST --
We are the world, and we are also Time Magazine's Person of the Year!
In the article online, Time Magazine says that we, the individuals of the online world, are the ones who have actively made . . . more
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February 13, 2006 07:20 PM EST --
She knew she was dreaming. She wanted to dream, wanted awareness in the night. He kept coming to her as she slept, rendezvoused with her on some astral plane, and she was desperate to learn the control . . . more
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July 11, 2006 11:44 PM EDT --
My entry is up in the Amazon Shorts competition! It is a short story called Paiute Prophecy
It's a bit different from what you have read from me, a fantasy piece. It is much more like what . . . more
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February 23, 2006 08:17 AM EST --
I have never pretended to be normal, and there are times when those differences are awfully clear. Like yesterday.
There are times in my life when I knew a major shift was coming. I was never quite . . . more
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May 26, 2006 11:18 AM EDT --
Do you ever wonder about the connections in your life? What amazing magical tricks of time and space had to take place to bring these people to you?
I am not just talking about those we love romantically, . . . more
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July 15, 2006 02:11 PM EDT --
It has come to this: I have lost control.
I used to be so good, so structured in my day. The alarm got me up for work. Lunchtime meant proofing some writing. After work there was Internet, exercise, . . . more
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