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Sparkle This!: July 2007
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Six writers. One blog. And the "dish" de jour. Your comments and feedback are encouraged and welcomed. Please leave advice, tips, suggestions, experiences and anecdotes. Monday, July 30, 2007. I love to wander through bookstores grabbing books at random reading first paragraphs. The Writers Little Helper list's great examples of opening scenes. I thought I'd share a few with you. I didn't see him at first, I smelled him though. John Grisham' s The Street Lawyer. What are some of your favorite openers?
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Sparkle This!: August 2007
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Six writers. One blog. And the "dish" de jour. Your comments and feedback are encouraged and welcomed. Please leave advice, tips, suggestions, experiences and anecdotes. Friday, August 31, 2007. An unlikely hero . . . I just finished the movie. Man of the Year. Doesn’t that sound like real life? And he wasn’t actually, legally, technically elected. On drugs, as voting machine company keeps inferring? Someone with an ulterior agenda? Or is she legit and he, as President-elect, the fraud? 8211; ah, certain...
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Sparkle This!: The Fog
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Six writers. One blog. And the "dish" de jour. Your comments and feedback are encouraged and welcomed. Please leave advice, tips, suggestions, experiences and anecdotes. Thursday, March 27, 2008. The rug’s mosaic patterns lifted and took on light and shadows from the space below. Poppy’s shoes, mired in an invisible field stronger than any pull she’d known with her other jumps, became shackles she couldn’t slip free of. Demitri looked down at her feet. His breath clipped out on a tide of growing panic.
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Sparkle This!: March 2008
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Six writers. One blog. And the "dish" de jour. Your comments and feedback are encouraged and welcomed. Please leave advice, tips, suggestions, experiences and anecdotes. Thursday, March 27, 2008. The rug’s mosaic patterns lifted and took on light and shadows from the space below. Poppy’s shoes, mired in an invisible field stronger than any pull she’d known with her other jumps, became shackles she couldn’t slip free of. Demitri looked down at her feet. His breath clipped out on a tide of growing panic.
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Sparkle This!: April 2008
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Six writers. One blog. And the "dish" de jour. Your comments and feedback are encouraged and welcomed. Please leave advice, tips, suggestions, experiences and anecdotes. Wednesday, April 23, 2008. Christ, how she wanted the world to be fair just this one time, wanted fair to be more than another extraneous four-letter word thrown into the mix. She wanted it to be her turn at fair. 8220;Demitri,” the plea whispered from her. 8220;I’m here, my love.”. 8220;Are you real? 8221; she breathed. 8220;Always....
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Sparkle This!: Soul Mates
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Six writers. One blog. And the "dish" de jour. Your comments and feedback are encouraged and welcomed. Please leave advice, tips, suggestions, experiences and anecdotes. Monday, March 24, 2008. Bracken tightened his grip on the wrinkled old neck. Elvira squeaked, “You’ll wed her over my dead body.”. 8220;That’s the idea, old woman.”. Tasha tugged on Bracken’s arm. “Leave her alone.”. 8220;I’m afraid I can’t do that, dear. This war was waged century’s ago.”. Tasha stepped between them. “Whoa! Elvira stood...
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Sparkle This!: October 2007
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Six writers. One blog. And the "dish" de jour. Your comments and feedback are encouraged and welcomed. Please leave advice, tips, suggestions, experiences and anecdotes. Sunday, October 28, 2007. Did anyone read a fantastic book this week? I'd love to hear your recommendations. Did the names in the book work? After a long work week and I am still focused on the topic of character names. What if authors chose different names for the following works. Can you come up with a better name? In the TV Show.
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Sparkle This!: September 2007
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Six writers. One blog. And the "dish" de jour. Your comments and feedback are encouraged and welcomed. Please leave advice, tips, suggestions, experiences and anecdotes. Sunday, September 30, 2007. Eight Female Archetypes - Part III. Using the excellent book: ". Heroes and Heroines: 16 Master Archetypes. By Caro LeFever, Tami Cowden and Sue Viders, today’s topic is female archetypes. Why did I write about the 8 male archetypes first? I find The Spunky Kid and The Crusader easier to write. A valuable ...
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Sparkle This!: November 2007
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Six writers. One blog. And the "dish" de jour. Your comments and feedback are encouraged and welcomed. Please leave advice, tips, suggestions, experiences and anecdotes. Sunday, November 18, 2007. Words - thought for today. If we take words and catch phrases out of our common history - what would they mean? Captivated by famous people or by fame itself. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006. Struck by a star or star-struck. Eighteenth-...
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Sparkle This!: Tick-Tock the Murder Clock
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Six writers. One blog. And the "dish" de jour. Your comments and feedback are encouraged and welcomed. Please leave advice, tips, suggestions, experiences and anecdotes. Tuesday, March 25, 2008. Tick-Tock the Murder Clock. What about the murderer? What about her completely screwed up life? The one she wanted back? That's exactly what I've done." Elvira twisted her fingers together, her expression pleading for understanding. Is anything you told me the truth? He turned to Elvira. "Or shall I? She supposed...