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When the Ending is the Beginning

January 15, 2010

Write a short story with a begin­ning, a mid­dle and an end­ing. Make it at least three para­graphs or one page in length. Then swap the begin­ning of your story with the end­ing. So that your first para­graph is now your last.
How does the story read now? Some things will be con­fus­ing and yet… does it […]

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How to Comment on Writing

January 13, 2010

Being part of a writ­ing group is a good thing. It gives you an extra push to achieve your goals and you can get some feed­back about your writ­ing from peo­ple who are writ­ing them­selves. But, being the per­son giv­ing the feed­back is not easy. Whether you review someon’e writ­ing as part of a group […]

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How to Write a Christmas Newsletter

December 8, 2009

A Christ­mas newslet­ter is a lovely thing. A time to think back over the year and remem­ber the good parts and the things you accom­plished. If you have a fam­ily there is that much more to tell. Sin­gles can write newslet­ters too. The best peo­ple to send a newslet­ter to are those older rel­a­tives who […]

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TV?">The End of Cable TV?

July 8, 2009

For years I have heard pre­dic­tions that news­pa­pers, mag­a­zines and books will fade away as they are replaced with dig­i­tal media. I’ve protested. I can’t take a com­puter to bed with me, I don’t even want to. It just wouldn’t be as com­fort­able as tak­ing a paper­back which I can fall asleep with and not […]

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Anonymous Confession

June 24, 2009

What is the fas­ci­na­tion with con­fes­sions? Do peo­ple lie so much and so eas­ily that they have to take a moment of time to ease their con­science and blab all anony­mously or to a reli­gious per­son sworn not to tell all? I’ve seen mag­a­zines about True Con­fes­sions, I’ve come across web­sites with online con­fes­sions and […]

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Play with Continuity

April 19, 2009

Play with con­ti­nu­ity. Write a short story where things sud­denly appear for no rea­son, are miss­ing or keep appear­ing and dis­ap­pear­ing ran­domly.  If you have ever noticed a movie or tele­vi­sion show where items seem to move or appear and dis­ap­pear as if they have a will of their own you will know what a […]

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Give a Good Critique

February 4, 2009

It isn’t easy to be a good cri­tique part­ner. You have to be hon­est and yet stand fast when you hit a nerve and get blasted for it. It does hap­pen.
Don’t for­get to be encour­ag­ing as well as hon­est. Focus on the over­all story and add spot­lights about missed com­mas, over used words, dia­logue, flow, […]

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Debating Yourself

April 3, 2006

Could you argue in favour of some­thing you dis­agreed with? Could you take the side, against your per­sonal beliefs, and come up with a great debate? Debat­ing is a skill. It’s not easy to come up with strong, win­ning points when you don’t agree with the over­all ideas. But, as a writer, that is what […]

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