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Fifth Tuesday Submissions January 31, 2012 The challenge: Write a short short story, poem, film scene or essay with a two-word title. One of the words must be either heart or hearts . . . Burning Heart, Busted Hearts, Mending Hearts, you get the idea. Hey, Valentine’s Day is coming. No more than 500 words. [...]

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Writer’s Mail Tuesdays with Story 01-05-12 Quote of the Week “If to love Story is to love excitement, then I ought to be the greatest lover of excitement alive.” – C.S. Lewis, On Stories Tuesday at the B&N 14 people! Rebecca shared the chapter “Treasure Hunting” from her Cheese Logue. Pat had a question about [...]

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March 25, 2011 Writer’s Mail by Carol Hornung Quote of the Day “A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” – Richard Bach Fifth Tuesday . . . Thirteen stories came in for the writing challenge. Tuesday evening at Booked for Murder, we’ll find out who wins the critique of the first 50 pages [...]

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March 3, 2011 Writer’s Mail by Cathy Riddle Quote of the Day. . . “Expectation is what colons and semicolons are all about; expectation and elastic energy. Like eternal springs, the colon and semicolon propel you forward in a sentence towards more information.”– Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne [...]

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February 25, 2011 Writer’s Mail by Cathy Riddle From The Best American Short Stories 2006 series editor Katrina Kenison: “… the best stories I’ve read over the years have seemed to require nearly as much of me, the reader, as of the writer, a kind of passionate engagement that challenges not only my intellect but [...]

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Writer’s Maily by Randy Haselow February 4, 20110 Fifth Tuesday’s writing challenge . . . Have you been sitting out the writing challenge? Just haven’t been able to get turned on to writing a short piece for Fifth Tuesday? You need an incentive? Maybe a reward? How about an opportunity to have the first 50 [...]

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Writer’s Mail for October 7, 2010 by Pat Edwards “The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.” William Faulkner (via Michael A. Simpson) Reading Recap: October 5 at the B&N [...]

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TUESDAYS WITH STORY WRITERS MAIL FOR JULY 29, 2010 by Greg Spry Next Fifth Tuesday: August 31st, 2010 It’s only 5 weeks away, August 31. Make your reservations now. Send either Shel Ellestad, or Jerry Peterson, a note telling them you are coming and who you’re bringing as guests. Yes, guests – friends, spouses, children [...]

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January 21, 2010 by Cathy R. “The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it is simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.” – Stanley Kubrick Writing friends… This group has [...]

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