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Just Another Windy Day

August 24, 2010

It’s a windy day, you’re walking along the sidewalk, coffee in hand. The wind is nice, just strong enough to blow the cobwebs out of your head, yet not so strong you’re having to hold onto things in order not to blow away yourself. You see a man’s hat blowing along the sidewalk, bouncing on [...]

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Ontario Blogging Women

August 19, 2010

I started a Twibe (a Twitter based group) for Ontario Blogging Women. We can talk about anything but the idea is to get together in real time, have coffee, meet real people in real places. You can bring the digital world with you but lets see some faces.

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Ordinary Love Story

August 16, 2010

Write your Ordinary Love Story. 200 words or less. Send them to Andre. All stories must begin: I have fallen head-over-heels in love with… She/he smells of… He taught me…. I taught her/him…. Here is mine. Give it a try. Admit your lust for the postman, the weird kid, the woman who sells you coffee [...]

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Plain as Day Directions?

July 20, 2010

Think of a place you have been to today, maybe out for coffee, out to work, as long as you had to get out of your homespace. Think about the route you took to get there. Things you needed along the way, like a bus pass, your purse. Anything you stopped for such as coffee [...]

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The Character Project Writing Exercise

January 29, 2010

Writing prompt from The Character Project: That guy. The one over there in the red shirt. He’s been in here every day this week. “That guy. The one over there in the red shirt. He’s been in here every day this week. He bought the breakfast platter and then two coffee refills after that. He [...]

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Five Things you can do When Life Overwhelms You

January 27, 2010

If you’re having a bad day, week, month even, it’s hard to sit down and focus on writing. Projects which you know are coming up, deadlines creep right along and you just get more and more behind by the moment. It drags on your spirit and takes your creativity with it. But, here are five things [...]

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Coffee Shop Confessional

January 10, 2010

I’m so used to typing rather than writing by hand it’s confusing my brain. I’m second guessing all my spelling cause it feels so unusual to be writing out each letter in the word. In my mind I see them coming out in type, fully spelled and sorted. The long hand way makes them all [...]

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TV People are Not Real

December 26, 2009

It kind of bugs me when you watch someone order a coffee or food on TV and then it just sits there, uneaten. Next thing they all leave and the food they said they wanted is pretty much untouched. This happens a lot on soap operas. In one, General Hospital, people go to Kelly’s Diner, [...]

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Write the Future for The Gilmore Girls

October 20, 2009

I’m watching an old Gilmore Girls show. I wish they could have kept Gilmore Girls on forever, or at least until I’m too old to know my own name any more. I have seen the final episode of The Gilmore Girls just once, so far. I bawled when they closed the show with Rory and [...]

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What Changes When You Break the Routine?

October 16, 2009

From Calpurnius: Where do ideas start? Do they start with the tiny screw which fell out my glasses this morning, prompting me to be out at a time I otherwise would not have been out? Little things often happen which trigger an idea or an event. There have been books written and movies made about [...]

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Inventive Ideas in Coffee Drinking

September 24, 2009

I went out for a latte this evening. I really like those Cinnamon Dolce lattes at Starbucks. Before now I had given up on Starbucks for coffee. It seemed all the lattes were just sweet and kind of gritty. Even the Gingerbread latte was nothing like it had been. But, now I have a fetish [...]

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You’ve Got Fly Cooties

August 21, 2009

A fly buzzes around your coffee mug. You’ve just made fresh coffee and only had that first sip of it. You swat the fly away, instead it flies right into your mug and begins to drown/ swim in your coffee. You scoop out the fly and drink the coffee anyway. It was really good coffee! [...]

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Positive Rituals to Get Your Writing Started

July 20, 2009

Do you have trouble getting started writing? I do. I sit down in front of the computer, at my desk and then… I check email, I pop open FaceBook to look at FarmTown, I think about making coffee… suddenly it’s an hour later and I still haven’t even opened my writing file. Some would call [...]

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The Ninth Deadliest Disease

May 30, 2009

The ninth deadliest disease was kept in a small vial in a small laboratory in a small town in a small country. The ninth deadliest disease felt kind of forgotten, as if it just wasn’t all that important or dangerous or even deadly at all. So it decided to break free. It started with a [...]

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Spinning Perception

May 27, 2009

Tim Horton’s says you save ten cents on their coffee refills if you use the plastic mugs instead of the paper cups. They could have said you pay ten cents for the paper cups each time. But it sounds better to save ten cents than to be charged an extra ten cents. My sister opened [...]

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Never Fight an Inanimate Object

May 21, 2009

P. J. O’Rourke – “Never fight an inanimate object.” Write about taking out your frustration on a machine dispensing coffee and how it all turned out.

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A World in One Sentence

April 8, 2009

Can you describe a world (not this one, on this particular planet) in one sentence? Try not to make a long and rambling sentence. Aim for something people can read before their coffee gets cold.

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