Tag: writing
member name: Len Maxwell
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December 03, 2009 12:36 PM EST --
Prompt: Create a holiday newsletter based on fact or fiction, but keep humor as your underlying theme.
Hi everyone,
Sammy and Tammy bringing you this year’s Christmas . . .
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October 17, 2009 03:37 PM EDT --
I never really thought about change because my life has been filled with it. I didn’t have massive changes in my early life -- not like a lot of kids. We moved to a new house when I was about . . .
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October 15, 2009 05:28 PM EDT --
"All rise, this Fairy Council Court is in session with the Honorable Judge Bartholomew Quigley Smeethington presiding."
The judge made his way to the bench and nodded. As everyone sat down he said, . . .
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November 27, 2009 05:36 PM EST --
I know! It’s early for Christmas stories, but if you decide to do what I’m describing, you’re going to need some time to plan.
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The neighborhood was nearly silent as I watched . . .
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December 10, 2009 06:20 PM EST --
It was 1955 when I learned to not take dares. I was one of those kids who would do anything... everything you wanted if you only prefaced it with, “I dare you.”
“You’re . . .
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November 16, 2009 08:17 PM EST --
As an editor I read work from many different authors every day. Well over half of my work is fiction and the authors tend to follow the admonition to “show-don’t-tell”; meaning let . . .
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July 29, 2009 07:12 PM EDT --
My introduction to the wonderful world of Hollywood and how movie-making ACTUALLY worked forty years ago.
Let’s see, it was sometime in the early ‘70s. I was a recruiter in San Francisco. . . .
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August 02, 2009 06:26 PM EDT --
You are watching a movie about the Civil War and hear a bugle blow. The Rebel captain stands on the edge of a ditch and waves his sword. Soldiers climb out of the ditch and follow the officer across the . . .
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August 30, 2009 07:42 PM EDT --
I know, I said I was going to take a couple days off, but things happen. Before I show you what I did today, let me explain something. Don’t know if I’m allowed to do that or not, but I’m . . .
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September 04, 2009 01:43 PM EDT --
This is so the wrong time to dtry to do this, I got home at 0100 this morning, caught about four hours of sleep, and my mind id is so fuzzy I don’t know what I’m saying. Why tired?
I just . . .
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August 31, 2009 03:27 PM EDT --
Once again I’m going to bend your ear about the background of this freewrite. My wife once gave me an idea for a story that involved various arguments at the Fairy Council. I dutifully typed that . . .
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August 08, 2009 07:58 PM EDT --
I use the Chicago Manual of Style as my guide and, in my move, it got packed -- somewhere. I haven’t been able to find it and have a question about formatting.
I’m editing a book where the . . .
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August 31, 2009 11:17 AM EDT --
I know, I said I was going to take a couple days off, but things happen. Before I show you what I did today, let me explain something. Don’t know if I’m allowed to do that or not, but I’m . . .
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August 31, 2009 11:22 AM EDT --
I know, I said I was going to take a couple days off, but things happen. Before I show you what I did today, let me explain something. Don’t know if I’m allowed to do that or not, but I’m . . .
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