Quotes for writers

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      “If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.” ― R.A. Salvatore     “Life is, in fact, a battle. Ev...

Word for writers

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    Smarmy. Etymologists don't know where smarm (the verb from which it is based) came from, but they do know that it meant "to s...

LLR Books: Youth. A Narrative by Joseph Conrad

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LLR Books: Youth. A Narrative by Joseph Conrad :     YOUTH A NARRATIVE By Joseph Conrad   ”... But the Dwarf answered: No; somethi...

LLR Books: MR. BENNETT AND MRS. BROWN by VIRGINIA WOOLF

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LLR Books: MR. BENNETT AND MRS. BROWN by VIRGINIA WOOLF :     MR. BENNETT AND MRS. BROWN VIRGINIA WOOLF     MR. BENNETT AND MRS. B...

LLR Books: Two Stories, by Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf

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LLR Books: Two Stories, by Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf :   THREE JEWS By LEONARD WOOLF. It was a Sunday and the first day of ...

LLR Books: THE VEGETABLE a play by F. Scott FitzGerald

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LLR Books: THE VEGETABLE a play by F. Scott FitzGerald :   THE VEGETABLE or from President to postman By F. SCOTT FITZGERALD     “Any man w...

The Cornfield Bomber and the Battle of Palmdale

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In 1970, during a training exercise, a Convair F-106 Delta Dart, piloted by Captain Gary Faust, flung itself out of control and went into ...

A little kindness can go a long way.

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    Twenty years ago, Gladys Hankerson of Delray Beach, Florida, was trying to call her sister in Maryland where the area code is 410. Ins...

The case of Patty Stallings

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  In 1989, Patty Stalling, a store clerk in St. Louis, rushed her infant son Ryan to the hospital. He was vomiting excessively and was h...

Art for the Blog of It: Wow....stop and look at this, the shapes, the size...

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Art for the Blog of It: Wow....stop and look at this, the shapes, the size... : The Cartwheel Galaxy by NASA Hubble  

Smart man, that Plato. We writers need to make this saying part of our writing code.

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Its alright if other writers seem to be whooshing pas you....step aside and let them whoosh or whatever it is. WRITING ISN'T A RACE. Tak...

my writing assistants

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This is Zen, with the bear guy, (left) a toy that has gone through three dogs  The second and third picture is of Zen, not a well chosen nam...

Words for writers

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  Obfuscate means "to make difficult to understand" or "to be evasive, unclear, or confusing."  Obfuscate comes from t...

Art for the Blog of It: Herself, Robert Henri, 1913,

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Art for the Blog of It: Herself, Robert Henri, 1913, :     Robert Henri painted Himself (1924.912) and Herself (Irish terms of endearment f...

Writers under surveillance

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   Writers under surveillance   By Sarah Mangiola In the height of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, men and women armed with a pen were sendin...

Writers opportunities

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  ** HUNTER COLLEGE MFA PLAYWRITING PROGRAM *** The Hunter College MFA Playwriting Program is accepting applications through January 15th! T...