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Princess Tatianna, My Dazzling Secret Alter Ego

March 10, 2010

Once in a while I imag­ine myself as the beau­ti­ful, slen­der, fash­ion­able and dia­mond wear­ing Princess Tatianna. Com­ing from some old world type of fam­ily, whether they be Russ­ian roy­alty or some­thing touch­ing on the para­nor­mal like Fey crea­tures. Although my sis­ters may be the typ­i­cal blondes, I am always brunette. (Stay true to your […]

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Stop Writing Mid…

March 6, 2010

Posted by Claire on Twit­ter:
Claire code: shirt = short and pie = pre. You can tell when I was tired, those days I just stopped writ­ing mid sen­tence.
How would your writ­ing be if you just stopped mid-word or mid-sentence a few times? Do you need all those words? Should some of your sen­tences be split […]

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What’s Your Vote on How World Ends?

March 5, 2010

From a poll on Face­book:
How do you think the world will end?
Floods — 12%
Earth­quakes — 24%
Pol­i­tics — 64%
84,250 peo­ple voted.
Isn’t that inter­est­ing? How many other options could you add to the list: Tor­na­dos, Aliens, Envi­ron­men­tal Dis­as­ter…? Would peo­ple still pick Pol­i­tics first? I did and would prob­a­bly keep to that.
How many other ways can you think of that the world (the […]

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The Sum of all Your Parts

February 28, 2010

“The home gar­dener is part sci­en­tist, part artist, part philoso­pher, part plow­man.” — John R. Whit­ing
I like this quote because we are all so many parts of dif­fer­ent things to make up the whole of who we are. When you write a char­ac­ter does he or she have a lot of parts? Can you name […]

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Salt is Lazy and Pepper is Fickle

February 26, 2010

Salt is lazy and pep­per is fickle.
I was mak­ing lunch, it’s funny how ideas just come into your mind from nowhere. As I poured salt into the pan I thought about how slow it poured out, as if it had all the time in the world. Mean­while, the pep­per became blocked after the sec­ond shake […]

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Makeup as Self-Expression

February 19, 2010

“Makeup is a really good form of self-expression — it’s your win­dow into the world”. - Dick Page
Write about some­one who wears a lot of makeup, how does a lot of makeup cov­er­ing their face change their out­look on the world? How does a lot of makeup change the way the world will look back at them?

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Badaud

February 18, 2010

A per­son given to idle obser­va­tion of every­thing.
From Wordnik.com, word of the day.
Can you see this per­son as being some kind of know it all? Or are they just really aim­less and hav­ing noth­ing bet­ter to do with their time?
Write a char­ac­ter, some­one extremely badaud. Is the per­son like­able? Aggra­vat­ing? Or great fun to have around, […]

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Who Will Win the UnDeath Match?

February 16, 2010

So far the were­wolves are ahead. They’ve out­lasted zom­bies, vam­pires and angels. (Are angels undead?)
I would have to pick drag­ons as their next chal­lenger. No, drag­ons are not undead. But, I can’t seri­ously see angels as undead. I think that opens the options up to other immor­tal crea­tures and a dragon can give a werewolf […]

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Truth or Dare

February 15, 2010

The game played in par­ties or in secret. We played on the front lawn, behind the hedges, of a neighbour’s house while they were on vaca­tion. A group of kids, some teenagers and some not quite there yet. At that time I didn’t under­stand the game but you caught on quick to save your­self embarrassment […]

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Give Yourself Some Love

February 14, 2010

On Valen­tines Day, whether you are sin­gle, mar­ried or any­thing in between and beyond, you can write a love let­ter to your­self. Don’t just joke or use sar­casm to pick on your­self. You are the only you. Appre­ci­ate your­self. Give your­self some credit. Tell your­self that you’re pretty good, if not better.

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Happy Valentines Day Weekend

February 12, 2010

With­out con­sid­er­ing money, time, aller­gies or other peo­ple, write the Valen­tine Day hol­i­day you would really like to have. Travel any­where in time and space. How does the day begin? What do you most look for­ward to? As the day wraps up where are you?
Now, hand this plan to your sig­nif­i­cant other, your lover, husband/ wife […]

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I Think We’re Alone Now

February 11, 2010

You see a woman eat­ing alone in a busy restau­rant. What does she look like, how is she dressed? Pic­ture her in your mind. Is she older, mid­dle aged or a young woman? What is her story? Did some­one stand her up? Is she a quiet per­son who prefers to be alone? Is she just […]

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Expression without Expression

February 10, 2010

Think of some­one who is unable to express emo­tion. Maybe they grew up with the “stiff upper lip” the­ory of life or maybe they don’t want to upset or annoy some­one by say­ing the wrong thing at the wrong time so they just say and express noth­ing at all. What­ever the back­ground story, plan a […]

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If you Were a Fruit…

February 8, 2010

Today I am at the Job Find­ing Club. I may even find a job. The ques­tion of stu­pid ques­tions came up. Some peo­ple say there are no stu­pid ques­tions. Oth­ers, like myself,  think there are abun­dant stu­pid ques­tions and won­der how it is that we keep hear­ing them. As an exam­ple of a stu­pid ques­tion…
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Fairy Tales for Short Attention Spans

February 4, 2010

One day a great wiz­ard cast an enchant­ment upon a princess hop­ing to lure her to his realm. Finally, she arrived. The wiz­ard came down from his tower to greet her with his very best pick up line. Sadly, it was some­thing obnox­ious he had picked up from the guy who cleaned the dun­geon. So […]

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