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Clarion!
I am delighted (and astonished) to announce that I will be attending the next Clarion Writers Workshop
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Too Many For A Favorite
A well-meaning teacher (who will remain nameless, but she knows who she is) recently asked me to make a copy of my favorite SFF (short) story, with a few typed paragraphs about what makes it good.
Now I'm a teacher myself, and I understand the purpose of the exercise; it would work with pretty much any good story.
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Paprikash?
Does anyone have a favorite recipe for Chicken Paprikash? I have a friend who loves it, and I want to make it for her birthday.
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Happy Birthday, Berte!
Many happy returns to amamama , a great soul, a good friend and an enouraging cheerleader. Berte is the prime example of how you can meet wonderful people on-line.
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Drabble Offer!
To freshen myself up a bit, I'm going to do another drabble challenge.
I offer to write a new, 100-word drabble to the specific prompt of each of the first ten (10) people who ask for them.
I will write any of the following:- Original fiction (but you still have to provide the prompt).
- Fan Fic in any of the following:
- Harry Potter
- Any of the Star ( Read more... )
- Harry Potter
- Original fiction (but you still have to provide the prompt).
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McEwan and Me
Yesterday I finished reading Ian McEwan's magnificent 2001 novel Atonement.
I'm still shell-shocked; every few minutes when I'm not otherwise occupied, my mind drifts back to this novel and I lose all sense of myself. It moved and troubled me, and I cannot find my way out of the conundrum it presents.
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Expecting the Worst, Hoping For the Best
Upon the king! let us our lives, our souls,
Our debts, our careful wives,
Our children, and our sins lay on the king!
Henry V, IV.iii.116-118
I expect to be disappointed by the next president. This expectation does not detract from my admiration for him or my good wishes for his administration.
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