Tag: writing
group name: womenwise
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July 27, 2008 02:18 PM EDT --
I keep telling myself things have to change, things need organization, they just do among 50 thousand other things, but telling myself never really got anywhere.
I've written story after story, . . . more
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August 19, 2008 04:06 PM EDT --
I've written some stories. None of them are published, or anywhere near being so. Some aren't even complete...but these are what I'm working on:
For the Love of a Daughter
Love controls . . . more
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March 25, 2006 10:20 PM EST --
*our house
6 years ago we bought our first home. It is 79 years old and it shows. Over the years many, many owners have moved in and did what they thought was remodeling; I'll explain.
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May 29, 2007 08:16 PM EDT --
Beyond mechanics, what makes good writing or, writing good?' Mechanics are often considered a necessary but not sufficent component of good writing.
What types of writing do you prefer?
Fiction or . . . more
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October 02, 2007 08:44 AM EDT --
I’m a writer.
Like many of you out there, I don’t get up at the crack of dawn to rush off to a job that may or may not pay the bills, where an obsessive-compulsive boss hovers . . . more
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March 21, 2006 04:19 PM EST --
I'd turn to the left, I'd turn to the right
I'd get insults about my voice, or my height.
The problems keep coming; there is no end
Seeing so many, not knowing who's a friend.
Keeping . . . more
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July 03, 2006 04:14 AM EDT --
I was a newbie writer, despite the fact that it took me eight long years to finish my first manuscript. One I thought would never be finished. You know the one. The book you have tucked . . . 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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April 18, 2006 10:42 AM EDT --
For April 18, 2006
Cancer (June 22-July 22) Ask yourself who is creating the expectations you must adhere to, the big to-do list, the astronomical standards. Why, it's you! Dare to chuck the . . . more
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May 15, 2006 11:16 AM EDT --
Eschew Obfuscation: Married to the Devil: Rearing His Ugly Head, Part 2
Things were glorious at first. My gut was saying nothing now except that John was the right one. For two months we keep our . . . more
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August 06, 2006 02:28 PM EDT --
You're beautiful, pure light
You're luminous, so strong
Inside and out
You carry me
Endlessly
You're tall
And dark
And yet the brightest soul I've seen
Your smile
Could . . . more
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November 21, 2006 01:30 PM EST --
When an old lady died in the geriatric ward of a small hospital near Dundee Scotland, it was believed that she had nothing left of any value.
Later, when the nurses were going through her meager possessions, . . . more
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October 13, 2007 04:23 PM EDT --
This is a copy of an e-mail that my aunt emailed me a while back and I just found it today. I think it's pretty interesting so I figured i'd share.
tihs tihng is petrty cool
fi . . . more
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June 23, 2006 05:20 AM EDT --
3 a.m.
I can hear you sleep
From all the way downstairs.
On cool granite
I slice thickly three
Of the stoutest
Tomato-reddest tomatoes
My garden has ever seen fit to deliver,
With their earth-musky . . . more
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August 05, 2006 07:36 AM EDT --
Help!! My head is spinning. I have a decision to make and it is making me crazy.
For twenty six years I lived in southeast Virginia while my parents lived in northern Wisconsin. . . . more
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April 27, 2006 05:05 PM EDT --
Martha Jette wrote an article about being a grandmother and it got me to thinking about my daughter Beth who is 17. Can I imagine her having a child right now? When I was her age she was already 5 months . . . more
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May 06, 2006 01:25 AM EDT --
Hiding behind a thin veneer
People are too blind to see
Laying beyond is a tunnel
Baring long forgotten things.
They don't see,
They don't care to,
That dark eyes without emotion
Are often full . . . more
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May 15, 2006 05:03 AM EDT --
When I was four, we went to Sears. You wore seamed stockings, a black dress and a hat with a veil.
All I ever wanted was to try on dresses.
When I was six, I went to kindergarten.
All I ever wanted . . . more
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June 15, 2006 11:41 PM EDT --
How Did You End Up At Gather?
So why exactly are you here on Gather? Is it to read, to debate, to socialize, to pass the hours of your worthless life because there is nothing better to do? Of course . . . more
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July 02, 2006 08:33 PM EDT --
forgive me mother for i have lived
and vowed to make amends
to make sense of my existence
no chains will shadow my footsteps
for i am driven not to be your spawn
the curse in my reflection
i will not . . . more
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