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Writer’s Mail for October 28, 2010 by Pat Edwards “Me fail english? Thats unpossible.” – Ralph Wiggum, The Simpsons The Pumpkin Challenge In honor of the upcoming holiday, Webook.com is doing a pumpkin challenge. Your pumpkin can take any form (carved, cursed, animated, giant, murderous, a pie) but it must cause terror in a person [...]

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Writer’s Mail for October 20, 2010 by Pat Edwards “When we read, we start at the beginning and continue until we reach the end. When we write, we start in the middle and fight our way out.” – Vickie Karp Tuesday, October 19th at the Barnes and Noble Kim shares a couple short chapters from [...]

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Writer’s Mail for October 13, 2010 by Pat Edwards “To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.” – Charles Caleb Colton 2nd/4th Update from the B&N FIFTH TUESDAY!!!! Second & Fourth is hosting! We [...]

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“A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.” ~ Charles Peguy Tuesdays With Story Writer’s Mail, May 20, 2010 By Carol Shay Hornung Tuesday Night at the Bookstore Kim – Jerry had a question about style [...]

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Writer’s Mail 3/29/2010 by Kimberly Simmons “It’s a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid of.” – Shirley Hazzard Last Week Only 4 folks showed up on Tuesday, so we didn’t really have a meeting (though we did talk and have [...]

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Writer’s Mail 3/13/2010 By Kim Simmons “The trick is leaving out everything but the essential.” – David Mamet Last Meeting Eight folks gathered at Barnes & Noble last night, and once Carol stopped grousing about Jodi Picoult publishing a book with a character with Asperger’s before she did (darn it!), we were able to get [...]

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“Don’t get it right, just get it written.” — James Thurber (1894-1961)   Writing Friends…  Please join me in thanking our November TWS Newsletter editor Alicia Connoly-Lohn of TWS First-and-Third. She was first to make the flying leap to “newsletter-edited-by-another,” which took guts and brains, following Jerry Peterson’s long, long run of great newsletters. Together, [...]

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