Tag: writing
member name: Christine L.
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May 22, 2008 03:55 PM EDT --
The flag d anced in the brisk breeze to the accompaniment of hardware tattooing against the metal pole. Wind whipped through the thin material of Charlotte's coat as she clung to her husband's . . .
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February 28, 2008 05:37 PM EST --
When I first started writing my novel, I had no drive to finish. It was just something to do to amuse myself. Last summer, I . . .
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February 01, 2008 02:31 PM EST --
It's not a myth or a legend. I know, because I was there. It was late in the spring of 1930. In my third year . . .
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May 27, 2008 09:55 AM EDT --
For t he past few months, I have been facing some very difficult issues in my personal and professional life. I tried week after week to write, both here on Gather and off. . . .
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May 31, 2008 08:47 AM EDT --
If you haven't joined Short Story First Line Challenge but love to read or write great stories, you ought to join. This is for this week's challenge which needs to be 1,000 words or less. . . .
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March 03, 2008 10:13 PM EST --
In this business of learning to write and get published, I think the key is balance. Don't focus on the highs or the . . .
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May 25, 2008 02:57 PM EDT --
You might recognize this. I've been working on this novel for several months and am now ready to submit the first two chapters to a contest. I am hoping some of you would give me some . . .
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September 15, 2008 02:39 PM EDT --
This is a public repost written for the group First Line Short Story 2 . Anyone may join, but all submissions are private and may only be viewed by group members. Come join the writing fun! . . .
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May 20, 2008 09:22 AM EDT --
This is a repost of a short story written for the Short Story First Line Challenge group. I am reposting in response to Writing Essentials request to highlight our work.
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February 10, 2008 10:07 AM EST --
Name something - or someone - who inspires you to keep going when the going gets tough.
Once answer per post please.
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January 20, 2008 12:06 PM EST --
A Changed Life
Confusion reigned everywhere. Voices blended into one mass cacophony. Rick's blank expression was mirrored in so many faces passing by. . . .
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September 21, 2007 10:36 PM EDT --
This is for all the teachers out there - those who are, will be, or would like to be. Come join in with articles about your teaching experience, your joys, your frustrations. Write about your favorite . . .
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March 21, 2008 07:08 PM EDT --
I'm writing my novel The Matter of Faith from a male perspective. So far it has gone well, but I can't seem to get the right words for a phrase I'm using. Maybe there's some . . .
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May 25, 2008 04:41 PM EDT --
I have used Microsoft Word for many years but I am becoming dissatisfied with it. In writing my books, it offers corrections on topics I know are correct and doesn't help me in . . .
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March 14, 2008 06:37 AM EDT --
It has been two weeks since I emailed out my first thirty pages to a perspective agent, but just a little more than a week since I mailed out two packages to two more perspective agents. The waiting . . .
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March 29, 2008 09:02 AM EDT --
It has been four weeks since I emailed the first thirty pages of my novel to one agent, and three weeks since I mailed the same pages to three other agents. One of those . . .
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March 20, 2008 07:46 AM EDT --
After reading a recent article from another writer here on Gather, I decided it is time for me to . . .
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July 29, 2008 10:25 AM EDT --
Submitted for a one-word prompt competition. The word is "abandoned."
Lonely and depressed.
It seems to haunt me, jeer and daunt me.
Hardly ever fearless. . . .
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September 22, 2008 09:33 AM EDT --
Welcome to the third weekly challenge! The first line of your short story is:
" Sounds of muffled laughter came from behind the closed doors ."
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May 27, 2008 08:42 AM EDT --
Yet another writing prompt response to Short Story First Line Challenge.
Sam's shadow fell silently across the gravestone. Though the song of dusk flowed around him, he continued to sit . . .
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