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A Girls Enema Blog | December 11th 2009
The earliest I’ve been able to track them is to the American Indians. In the 1740’s, Richard Mead was a physician to the English throne. He was the first to recommend the application of tobacco rectally. Smoke was pumped into the rectum read more
Christmas past
The Nook of Oz | December 4th 2009 by Anonymum
As we hurtle towards Christmas, my mind, as it generally does, has gone into reflection mode. It turns to times when all was well within my world, there were no family arguments, nor was the phrase “dysfunctional family” coined. A time w read more
GETTING READERS TO BITE INTO YOUR STORY
Joylene Nowell Butler, One Moment at a time on Cluculz Lake | December 4th 2009 by Joylene Nowell Butler
It's my pleasure to have Katherine Swarts back with us. This time Katherine talks about something we all (published or not) need to remember. Please give a warm welcome to Spread the Word founder and inspirational poet, Katherine Swarts. GETTIN read more
Beginning, Middle, and Ending
Pen Perfect Associates | December 2nd 2009 by Lea Schizas
Writers have asked me in the past how to begin a story. There are a few ways to go, such as: begin with the action and move forward in a straight line, adding perhaps some back-story/flashback to offer a peek as to the ‘why’ of the action taken p read more
I Got Bored
The Delirious Mommy | December 1st 2009 by Deliriousmommy
Well, that, and blinded by the NAUSEATING pink that was once my blog template. I can't believe you aren't suing me for damage to your eyesight. Anyway, since I bore easily, I switched. Let me know if you experience a read more
And so it begins . . .
The Delirious Mommy | December 1st 2009 by Deliriousmommy
I'm not sure what has motivated me to start a blog. It's not as if I need one more thing to do. And as noble as it sounds, it's not so that I can capture those "special moments" with the girls for future posterity. Maybe I, like so many others who de read more
Did you forget your dreams?
Online Magazine for Clever Women | November 29th 2009 by Ella
I have a dream… We all know that phrase from Marten Luther King, but don’t we all have dreams? The moment we could think our dreams were borne. Once, they were so important to us, that we were sure that our dreams will become true. But we were read more
Weighty matters
The Nook of Oz | November 28th 2009 by Anonymum
After being in America for 2 weeks, Mark and I both came back carrying a few extra kilos {read more than is good for us} The food was so damned good, and plentiful, it was bloody hard to say no. So we just said yes!!! What can I say?? Anyhow, Mel an read more
Weighty matters
The Nook of Oz | November 28th 2009 by Anonymum
After being in America for 2 weeks, Mark and I both came back carrying a few extra kilos {read more than is good for us} The food was so damned good, and plentiful, it was bloody hard to say no. So we just said yes!!! What can I say?? Anyhow, Mel an read more
advent
View from the asylum | November 26th 2009
I've been preparing for the start of the year as far as the church calendar goes and have found it to be really rewarding.At this time of year, a time of a new beginning, the church looks to what they anticipate will happen at the very end of time. T read more
The Beginning and Talking Dirty
The Writing Jungle | November 23rd 2009 by Lea Schizas
No, I'm not going to begin talking dirty. Far from it. I'm a mommy of five and my kids read this blog. GRIN!However, I am going to turn your attention to a new blog I began for Pen Perfect Associates. I posted two interesting articles in there I'd li read more
Your Beginning
Pen Perfect Associates | November 22nd 2009 by Lea Schizas
How many times have we read the beginning must capture your reader’s attention? Numerous times, right? Then why is it so many writers still don’t grasp this all-important step? If you don’t grab, hook, nab, chain them to your book from the begi read more
The End Just Means A New Beginning
Living The Life Of Tere | November 21st 2009 by Tere
This time of the year usually signifies endings of some sort. The end of a season, the end of a calendar year, businesses end their fiscal year, and school semesters are ending for students everywhere. But do things really end? All of those endi read more
Mutual Weirdness = Love
Life's Dewlaps | November 19th 2009
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Making the Choice: Wearing the Hijab
BASIC FACTS ABOUT ISLAM | November 13th 2009 by sakina
Wearing the Hijab for the First Time Essay by Najla Ghazi Amundson I was born and raised in Akron, Ohio, to Muslim parents from Aleppo, Syria. We lived in an upper-middle class suburb, predominately white and Christian. My parents had doctoral degre read more
The Importance of Beginnings
Quotes on Writing | November 9th 2009 by Jim Harrington
“The opening (beginning - first chapter) should captivate and keep your reader’s attention. That initial hook is the difference between writers who understand the importance and those who don’t.” -- Lea Schizas in The Force Behind the Book.I read more
All puffed up is what I am
The Nook of Oz | November 4th 2009 by Anonymum
As I mentioned in an earlier post, there has been much happening in our lives, and I can assure you, most of it has been pretty shitful. I won’t go into details, suffice to say the past 6 weeks have not been a happy time, nor has it been easy. read more
Nothing and Everything
Go Girl Magazine | October 29th 2009
Nothing and Everything By Lisa Some days, nothing much happens. August 26, 2004. I woke from strange dreams involving campgrounds and serial killers when my mother poked her head in the door of my old bedroom and asked, “What time do you need me read more
Find Time to Make a Successful Beginning
The Time Finder with Paula Eder | October 22nd 2009 by Paula Eder
Did you find time to attend last night’s teleclass with Melissa McCreery and me on Honoring Your Time with Boundaries? If not, we’ll let you know when the MP3 becomes available. I thoroughly enjoyed the class, and hope that you will, to read more
Don't Bore the Reader in the First Paragraph
Quotes on Writing | October 21st 2009 by Jim Harrington
“This [inciting] incident should make the character have to act. Here's where the story begins. The sooner the writer gets to this point, the sooner the story can get started.” -- Randall Brown in Thursday Flash Craft: Writing the Monomyth into read more
A Good Lack in a Landscape.
Great Books, Half Read. | October 20th 2009 by Martin Marks
From Eudora Welty’s “Worn Path“: It was December — a bright frozen day in the early morning. This morning, I’m looking at the beginning sentence of “A Worn Path” because of its lack of specificity ( read more
Monday Reflection
Musings from the Moonroom | October 19th 2009 by Amy
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. —Louis L’Amour, American novelist read more
Beginnings
Marlene's Feel Good Blog | October 19th 2009 by Action Alameda
Here’s Something to Feel Good About Today… Change is inevitable, so I try to see transitions in my life as opportunities to begin again. I love beginnings it’s the endings I have a hard time with; finishing up, saying good-bye, leaving places read more
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Protecting Our Environment | October 15th 2009 by ProtectOurPlanet
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Hard to Get…Hard to Satisfy
From Bummin' to Ballin' : My Journey with Affiliate Marketin… | October 14th 2009
Well it has been a few weeks since I last wrote a post and I was thinking… IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT!!! HAHA … I’m Kiddinggggg, I promise. I have been a little bit wusy starting up my last year of coll read more
Stage One Of A Feature Film Screenplay.
Kid In The Front Row | October 11th 2009 by Kid
I don't have characters yet, I don't have a plot. This is the very beginning. It's the beginning of a script I've been putting off writing since I was about fifteen.The time has come. read more
Job Interview – Aye or Nay? Aye!
Hello . Ok . Bye | October 7th 2009
I went for a job interview. On my grandmother’s birthday. Something about her birthday is lucky I guess. My brother started his first job on October 1st in 2004. I had a job interview and got the job on October 1st 2009. Salina & Associate read more
IF - Germ
An Artist in Jerusalem | October 5th 2009 by Shiran Zaray-Mizrahi
Germ: the initial stage in development or evolution, as a germ cell or ancestral form (dictionary.com)The Jewish High Holidays have come and gone, ushering in the Jewish New Year, and with it, the good and the (apparently) bad... Several births and, read more
Precipitating Events
Quotes on Writing | October 2nd 2009 by Jim Harrington
“Identify your story’s precipitating event, the moment when it begins--a body being dropped off a bridge, for example--and start there. Typically, this is a moment of change, or the threat of change, for the story’s protagonist.” -- William G read more
6 weeks down
The Rambling Reader | October 1st 2009 by Val
So many new things are going on in my district I don't know where to begin.We have new administration, new TEKs, new scope and sequence, a new co-teaching policy, new start times, new schedule. It's been interesting.For co-teaching we no longer have read more
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