Writer’s Mail November 25, 2011 By Pat Edwards “Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.” – W.J. Cameron Tuesday at Barnes & Noble One last visit to Barnes & Noble before the December shopping frenzy leaves us homeless! Good news, though – 2nd and 4th has permission to meet again this year in the [...]
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Posted in Newsletter, tagged LA Times, Nathan Bransford, www.goodreads.com on December 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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Posted in Newsletter, tagged Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Nathan Bransford, Richard Bach, Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book on August 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tuesdays with Story WRITER’S MAIL for August 6, 2011 Good Words from Way Back “Faugh, Shere Khan! –what new shame hast thou brought here?” The Lame Tiger had dipped his chin and jowl in the water, and dark, oily streaks were floating from it down-stream. “Man!” said Shere Khan coolly, “I killed an hour since.” [...]
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Posted in Newsletter, tagged John Cheever, John Galligan, Madhusree Chatterjee, Nathan Bransford, Tom Wolfe, Write-by-the-Lake on June 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Writer’s Mail Tuesdays With Story June 8, 2011 Someone asked Tom Wolfe his advice for writers. “I would say get out of the building and look around. I say, if you spent 30 days in any place in this country, I would say you would come up with material you never knew existed before.” Tuesday [...]
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Posted in Newsletter, tagged Nathan Bransford on May 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Writer’s Mail May 8, 2011 by Pat Edwards In honor of our members who are also mothers. . . “On Mother’s Day I have written a poem for you. In the interest of poetic economy and truth, I have succeeded in concentrating my deepest feelings and beliefs into two perfectly crafted lines: You’re my mother, [...]
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Posted in Newsletter, tagged Jeff Mallett, John Galligan, Lee Masterson, Nathan Bransford, Somerset Maugham on April 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
March 31, 2011 Writer’s Mail by Carol Hornung Quote of the Day. . . “Writing well means never having to say, ‘I guess you had to be there.’” – Jef Mallett, creator of the comic strip Frazz, 07-29-07 Fifth Tuesday . . . And the winner is Andrea Kirchman for her writing challenge story, “The [...]
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Posted in Newsletter, tagged Booked for Murder, David Morrell, Fire in Fiction, John Galligan, Nathan Bransford, Richard Bach, wordspy.com on March 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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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Posted in Newsletter, tagged Booked for Murder, Borders, John Galligan, Katrina Kenison, Nathan Bransford on February 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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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Posted in Newsletter, tagged Donald Maas, Nathan Bransford, wordspy.com on February 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Writer’s Mail by Cathy Riddle February 17, 2011 Found on New York writer Jennifer Sky’s Facebook page, a quote she credits to Sigrid Nunez: Earlier today, a homeless man was on a corner looking through the garbage. Pulled out a newspaper, threw it aside. Pulled out a magazine, threw it aside and said, “There’s nothing [...]
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Posted in Newsletter, tagged Booked for Murder, Fifth Tuesday, John Galligan, Libby Fischer Hellmann, Nathan Bransford, wordspy.com on February 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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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Posted in Newsletter, tagged Mark Twain, Nathan Bransford, The Writer's Almanac, wordspy.com on January 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Writer’s Mail January 20, 2011 by Randy Haselow Fifth Tuesday Update Have you had that conversation with your character, yet? Have you distilled it down into a dynamite 500-word piece? No? Come on, get with it. It’s the writing challenge for our next Fifth Tuesday, March 29. Select one of your fictional characters – major [...]
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