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Meme taken from fangirl1981, which she got from ignatius_sparke
Write a poem by putting your itunes/mp3 player/whatever you listen to music on on shuffle and writing down the first line from the first 20 songs that pop up. Use the first line from the 21st song as a title. No cheating!
I DID cheat in the sense that all this instrumental crap from "Flash" kept popping up...so rather than leave lines totally blank ( Read more... ) -
More words of wisdom from "The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction"
More quotes:
From Mark Budman's essay: "After all, a writer is a professional exhibitionist. The reader is the voyeur he hopes to lure." :D
From Pia Z. Erhardt's essay (bolding mine, because I love that part especially) : "...Sometimes this clarity comes toward the end, sometimes it's in the first paragraph. In my own stories, the load-bearing ( Read more... ) -
I must try this!
I'm reading The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, edited by Tara L. Masih. Therein are essays by notable writers in the genre. Interesting stuff. I have to say that Flash Fiction really is my first love; even though I don't write as much flash as I do other stuff. My average word count for things seems to be around 3500 - ( Read more... ) -
One of the funniest "Page Not Found" pages I've ever seen. "All your base are belong to Frank." LOL
I just Googled my user name. I tried to click on one of the search results, and got THIS! LOL! (You have to know about the "All Your Base Are Belong to Us" phenomenon to understand it).
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Another of My Favorite YouTube Videos- 2007 Doris Lessing Reacts to Nobel win
Doris Lessing reacts to Nobel Peace Prize win in 2007.
LOL, from start to finish. This NEVER gets old!
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It's NUCLEAR, folks; not NUKE-ULAR!
This is one of those words that gets mispronounced far too frequently.
I'm tired of hearing radio DJ's and news commentators saying "nuke-ular."
And Sarah Palin prononounced it "nuke-ular" the other day. But somehow I totally expect that from her....
It's NUCLEAR, not NUKE-ULAR!
P.S. - So, I looked it up at Dictionary.com, just to verify. http:// ( Read more... )
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