Tag: books
group name: firsttimewriters
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October 28, 2009 12:43 PM EDT --
Illustration by N. C. Wyeth
As a writer, we often feel like Robinson Crusoe. Alone and adrift. But we don't have to be like him with all the resources available . . .
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March 26, 2007 08:48 PM EDT --
As the bright blood red half sun began to rise and flood the small sand block building with sunlight like high tide, Vilov sat in front of the map wrack sifting through hundreds of maps. Vilov sat . . .
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October 29, 2008 12:30 PM EDT --
Your book is published, either by a traditional publisher, or a POD publisher, now what? How do we build a reader base? How do we get our name out there? Even if you don’t have a book published yet, . . .
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November 30, 2006 01:55 PM EST --
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. There you have it – truth! As a man thinks so is he and as a man continues to think so he continues to be. This simple little verse . . .
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May 24, 2007 04:09 PM EDT --
Recently, I was fortunate enough to have my dark children’s novel The Ghost Mirror accepted for publication by e Treasures Publishing. You can imagine how excited I was to have my novel . . .
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June 15, 2007 03:33 PM EDT --
My father was fifty years old when I was born, the last of ten children. The depression had seriously hurt their success at farming and the coup de grace came when the farm house they were renting burned . . .
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December 06, 2006 11:38 PM EST --
THESE are the worthy linesI read yesterday so i thought to share with you all:
1.There are three kind of humanbeings-one who live for others , the second : who live for themselves, last:who are . . .
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October 14, 2007 01:37 PM EDT --
Dear People,
Why bother writing a book report or small piece on a book if you can say no more than the following:
"Title" by Someone is a good book. I enjoyed it. You . . .
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August 14, 2007 06:45 AM EDT --
Book TwoBobby (The Not So Great Blue Heron)
The War Of The Mile Long Pier
Chapter 1 : Canada Geese Bobby was fishing for white bass for his tabby cat friend Calawdalonzo . . .
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January 04, 2007 05:14 PM EST --
Spell Check is not infallible!
There is a phenomenon that I have noticed more and more in recent years, and I’m certain is directly related to an over reliance on computers
There was a . . .
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August 20, 2007 03:47 PM EDT --
Behind the Veil: Book One
His breaths came in short bursts. Still stunned at what just happened. He was lying on the floor of his office with a bullet wound in his stomach. He had no idea how it happened . . .
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April 21, 2007 09:50 PM EDT --
Almost a year ago (August 15th to be exact) I posted the first chapter of the novel I'm currently working on (#4 in a series http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976777155). . . .
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February 12, 2007 11:19 AM EST --
I retired from my profession at 65. It was definitely time, as i was increasingly disgusted with the direction the profession was choosing. I was . . .
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May 05, 2007 09:24 PM EDT --
Proloque
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July 16, 2007 11:37 AM EDT --
O my guest of heart!
Let me entertain your intoxicating smiles.
O my peer!
Let me read your mystical face!
O my dream'smerchant!
Let me decorate the assembly of love.
O my soul’s . . .
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January 26, 2007 02:24 PM EST --
It's been said that "everyone has a story to tell". That quote goes back many years and for a writer who wants to be published and sell books, that statement is a nemesis.
That statement . . .
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February 12, 2007 08:22 AM EST --
WRITING PROMPTS
The term “prompt writer” sounds scary, but in reality, every serious writer has his or her own prompts.
What is a prompt? The dictionary . . .
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September 09, 2006 06:16 AM EDT --
Nate the dragon is a very nice and powerful dragon espically when it comes to protecting friends and family members.He has a younger brother named Buddy.Nate and Buddy are staying at this park . . .
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