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What Is the What? (Audio)

Teresa wrote 15 minutes ago: What Is the What? is the novelized autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, one of the Lost Boys who l … more →

Tags: Audiobooks

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anythingandeverythingblog wrote 20 minutes ago: Growing up with my parents was like going off to war every day. The fighting the bitching, the moani … more →

Tags: Creative Writing, flash fiction, Micro-lit, microfiction, Prose, short short story, Short Story, sudden fiction

On Writing: Muddling Through the Middle

Bertram wrote 47 minutes ago: Novels generally have a three-part structure: beginnings, middles, and ends. Beginnings connect the … more →

Tags: Books, Life, musings, Random, Thoughts, writing, Action, beginning, character

Getting Black on White

weavingoldendances wrote 1 hour ago: Also from the Dos Passos Prize reading, “A writer is a reader moved out of emulation” … more →

Tags: Books, Life, Writers, writing, Kent Haruf, Literature, Reading, time

It's Not Pretty...

weavingoldendances wrote 1 hour ago: from last year’s John Dos Passos Prize for Literature winner Kent Haruf’s reading/accept … more →

Tags: Books, Life, School, dos passos, Harsh, Kent Haruf, Literature, Poetry, prize winner

Journey's End Chapter 7: The Golden Woods1 comment

Kyle E. Moore wrote 2 hours ago: a/n: Not much of an author’s note this time around, other than to say that the ending original … more →

Mumei Yumei

Jeff Jefferson wrote 2 hours ago: I will soon begin a series of vignettes to promote the excellent band, Special Dental Team, which wi … more →

Tags: Graduate School, Music, writing, ekphrasis, ludic, Ludic Writing, Special Dental Team, Vignette

I want to believe...

thicketeer wrote 2 hours ago: There I go. Stealing lines from The X Files. I would change one part of that statement, though. Ins … more →

Tags: Childhood, creepy, Ghosts, look it up, weird ol' me, Why, ADD, creepiness

The Best of Gene Wolfe

mraf wrote 2 hours ago: Looks like March of 2009 will see the release of a new book called “The Best of Gene Wolfe: A … more →

Tags: News, Gene Wolfe, book, Retrospective

World building month: Video Games as Writing Tools

jenniedee wrote 2 hours ago: I spend a lot of time playing video games, and have since I was fairly young; we used to play a lot … more →

Tags: assorted miscellany, Inspiration, Motivations, writing, Addons, Bethesda, blizzard, construction set, Fantasy

Guidelines for Safe and Sane Post Mortem Exercise (part 1)

Jason wrote 4 hours ago: 1. You’re Dead! Hooray! So you say you’ve recently joined the ranks of the Conscious Dec … more →

Tags: Humor, SF, Undead, Vampires, zombies

What's Your All-Time Favorite Novel?1 comment

erinstraza wrote 4 hours ago: I’ve recently organized my classics reading list, and then I came across this meme at Word Lil … more →

Tags: Books, top 100 books, Favorite Novels, Reading List, Meme

End of summer reads

asrais wrote 4 hours ago: Actually there are a few books I haven’t done, going back to the end of July. I’ve just … more →

Tags: bookcount, Romance, Breaking Point, Flashpoint, Sam Starett, Suzanne Brockmann, United States Navy SEALs

Amtret Alphabet Draft1 comment

agarithia wrote 4 hours ago: I was working on some of the characters of Amtret. So far I only have a little over 50 characters. I … more →

Tags: Written Words, world building month, writing

[Fiction]: What I've Learned

Lord Wolf wrote 4 hours ago: Borrowing an idea from Esquire magazine, I thought I’d do a “What I’ve Learned … more →

Tags: writing, writingsample

world building: weapons

elizaw wrote 5 hours ago: Weapons, like clothes and architecture, fall into and out of fashion. The weapons described here ar … more →

Tags: world building month, Axe, Creative Writing, Dagger, Daggers, dirk, Dirks, Fantasy, Hammer

Romancing Hollywood Nobody--My Review

rcwriter wrote 5 hours ago: Romancing Hollywood Nobody (Book 3, Hollywood Series) By: Lisa Samson NavPress-2008   There’s no … more →

Tags: Book Review, Christian Fiction, Hollywood Series, Lisa Samson, NavPress 2008, Romancing Hollywood Nobody

For the broken soul.

lastpackofcigarette wrote 5 hours ago: She clearly stated that she will never sleep with him again — that’s how she ended their … more →

Tags: Thoughts

Sappy Fiction

bananatree wrote 5 hours ago: The music director at CKXU radio asked for a story about paper airplanes. The prize for the best ent … more →

Tags: General, Music, Calgary, Chad VanGaalen, CKXU, Free, radio, SAP, Sappy