reading and writing a life
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No light, but rather darkness visible. -John Milton Your mission in this first of a four-week long competition is to write a maximum of 2500 words for the theme DARKNESS. Shall you tell of a bleak landscape, a room full of shadows, or a lightless soul? What ideas spark…
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This week I decided to get back to my Sci-Fi roots and read Arthur C. Clarke’s first novel, Childhood’s End. Somewhat coincidentally, the premise of this novel has been adapted for a SyFy mini-series that is coming out this year. Arthur C. Clarke [2001: A Space Odyssey]…
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Your writing is: necessary wonderful your message to the world Just in case no one has told you this today, or if someone has, here’s a reinforcement: in writing, you are doing exactly what you are supposed to do. Let go of your insecurities and doubts, you’ve…
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A couple of days ago, my friend posted a status on Facebook: “You can’t just go from a sad book to a happy book.” “Sure you can, you just start reading.” “No! There’s a grieving period, you don’t understand!” The exchange was between herself and her husband.…
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One of my favorite movie scenes is in The Day After Tomorrow: A super storm is hitting New York, temperatures are dropping, and city refugees are holed up in the Manhattan branch of the New York Public Library. Their best bet for survival is to set fires and…
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Some great opening lines chosen at random: Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. —Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (1850) The sky above the port was the color…
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Week three set a challenge to our writers to weave us a bit of fancy using the prompt “Glitches” in 350 words or less. They have responded. Congratulations to last week’s winner Bibi. Who will sweep the voting this week? Help us decide. You have until 11:45…
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Attention: May is on the horizon, and with it comes a new writing challenge! Rather than the rapid-fire seven day contests of months past, for the mid-year we are bringing you the opportunity to spend all month perfecting a story or collection of poetry. Sign-ups are required to…
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Top o’ the mornin’, my darling Flamelings! Stories of What Worlds May Come await your reading, commenting, and voting. The poll closes tomorrow. Meanwhile, #youshouldbewriting for Week Three! Competitive and Just For Fun entries for Live To Tell The Tale are due the 22nd. We all know —…
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? WHAT WORLDS MAY COME Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne — these authors brought their earliest readers to the edge of the known world then pushed them over the cliff into a thrilling, chilling, possibly boundless unknown where science, fantasy, and the persistence of human failure…
Kathy Boles-Turner 