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Cheryl Crabb | NCWonlinegroup's Blog
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Cheryl Crabb is long-time journalist and emerging author seeking feedback on the latest draft of. A 60,000-word work of commercial women’s fiction. With a career stretching from Chicago to New England and Atlanta, she’s documented suburban sprawl as a staff writer for. And most recently profiled Connecticut companies and reported on real estate trends as a regular contributor to. October 5, 2011 at 3:30 pm. Hi Cheryl, I feel so lucky to have read an earlier version of your story! What works for me:.
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Kathleen Murphy | NCWonlinegroup's Blog
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I am a journalism major, with 30 years experience in corporate communications. I’ve published many magazine articles and one non-fiction book, and I’m currently working on my first novel. August 2, 2009 at 9:40 pm. Comments for Kathleen’s July 27 submission:. August 2, 2009 at 10:12 pm. I think this is great! I read it shortly after you sent it and let it ruminate the rest of the week and then read it again today. Here are the points I thought were strongest:. Things that held me up:. 8211;At the beginni...
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Julia Lynne | NCWonlinegroup's Blog
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My next novel is beginning to form in my head and I need to do some work on a family memoir written in short stories that I started but haven’t finished for fear of giving my mother a heart attack. March 8, 2010 at 10:12 pm. I forward to bearing witness to your writing journey and sharing mine. Lynn G. Carlson. April 8, 2010 at 1:56 am. Julia: I’ve got travels this week so I get to submit first, before I head to the airport. Enjoyed reading your submission, diving into a world so different from my own.
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Steve Linstrom | NCWonlinegroup's Blog
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August 17, 2009 at 12:34 am. Comments on Steve’s August 17th submission:. August 21, 2009 at 7:46 pm. Hi Steve —. I am not a history reader, but your submission took me to another world. You have a deft touch for detail — I especially liked the soaring hawk and the dark eyes of the children as the chief left the council. As heartbreaking as the story was, I loved learning about the Lakota people. As for suggestions, I have only a few:. I noticed many repetitions of the word “peaceful.”. I took a course t...
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Lynn Carlson | NCWonlinegroup's Blog
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I started to get serious about creative writing about five years ago, though I’ve written a lot in my various careers and studies. My professional background is in training, but I am on hiatus now, letting my husband earn the bucks while I take care of our home, pitch in with extended family responsibilities and explore writing. I’m actually finding plenty of transferable skills from the training realm, where my favorite quote (one I used often with my training teams) was. September 25, 2009 at 7:55 pm.
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Beth Eikenbary | NCWonlinegroup's Blog
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I am a management consultant writing a weekly blog. I am in process of expanding from work related writing other genres. My first step is to the short story. August 10, 2009 at 4:25 pm. Comments for Beth’s August 10th submission:. August 15, 2009 at 1:49 am. The story, In the East, has a very powerful theme. Once I got to the last couple of paragraphs it all came together. There were a couple of small mechanical things I noticed:. Paragraph 2 capitalization in 3rd sentence. August 16, 2009 at 4:35 pm.
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Marilyn Kennedy | NCWonlinegroup's Blog
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Allow me to introduce myself. I am a writer with big rainbow-colored dreams … who has never tried to make her way in the world as a writer, even though I was born with the gift of writing, imagination and storytelling. In June 2010, I became seriously ill and so left my big corporate job for medical reasons. In the time and space that opened up, and with the realization that there are no guarantees in life, I asked myself, If you really did have only six months left to live, what would you do? There are ...
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Eileen Wiard | NCWonlinegroup's Blog
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I live in Taos, NM and met Jennifer at a writing conference here last summer. I’m working on memoir, mostly, but would like to improve my fiction techniques in the stories I’m telling about my life. I work as an office manager to the only psychiatrist in Taos, and that should give me plenty of material, too, for the future! October 20, 2011 at 6:08 pm. October 22, 2011 at 10:04 pm. WHAT’S WORKING FOR ME:. It might be the water in her tank, but it wasn’t mine and that dumb smile on his face, the one that ...
