Tag: fiction
group name: thewritersreview
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May 13, 2008 04:17 PM EDT --
"Now what I want is, facts," said Tilda. "None of this storybook crap for me." She dropped her cigarette, and crushed it with her shoe
"Stories . . . more
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March 15, 2008 05:01 PM EDT --
MaryBeth tugged at the rip in her father's tattered denim jacket and remembered the last time she wore it - it was a year before her father died, when she wore a sailor's cap and blue . . . more
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March 20, 2008 02:59 AM EDT --
There's so much to say - yet, so little we've said.
We do not talk, you and I. There's a hush, a chill that surrounds the air we breathe. Sometimes I see it . . . more
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March 21, 2008 05:23 PM EDT --
It happened the summer I found the rabbit lying in the road, hit by a car, his legs broken. He couldn't be saved, yet I had to try.
It was then I knew the marriage couldn't be saved, . . . more
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February 19, 2007 01:15 PM EST --
I propose to publish a series of pieces that together I will call Guidelines for Writing Fiction. In this, the first in the series, I will discuss point of view (POV).
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March 04, 2008 04:35 AM EST --
A Gather friend suggested I post an excerpt from my novel here, easier for folks than connecting to the website, www.readwhitelies.com. She said, An excerpt like Tom Brokaw did. I've never been in . . . more
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November 30, 2007 02:48 PM EST --
On Monday, December 10th at 10 p.m. ET, bestselling crime fiction writer Linda Fairstein will reveal her favorite true crime story on Court TV's series "Murder By The Book." The . . . more
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March 20, 2008 12:23 PM EDT --
When Bev heard the front door open and shut, she called down the stairs, "Did you bring the mail?"
A gust of cold air raced past her and she shivered. Winter had lasted too long this year. . . . more
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February 26, 2008 12:06 PM EST --
I escaped. Left my home and family and responsibilities for a longer than normal vacation in the Land of Sunshine. It's a dream I've had since a fellowship showed me what uninterrupted time can . . . more
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May 29, 2008 05:41 PM EDT --
I am looking for reccommendations among the published fiction and poetry writers here at Gather. I've been on the search for a genuine online writer's circle, off and on for some years now. During . . . more
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June 06, 2008 12:31 AM EDT --
Once there was and once there was not a sad-green-eyed-dreamer-girl. She danced with the angels under the bluest skies and built houses for the faeries in the snow-time. In her knowing, love wasn't . . . more
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March 02, 2007 04:17 PM EST --
For the first three years I owned a computer, the phrases most logged into the search engine were “literary agents” and “how to find one.” Occasionally I dropped . . . more
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March 10, 2008 07:27 PM EDT --
I just got done reading "True Notebooks" by Mark Salzman. A published writer stuck on a juvenile delinquent character in a book he is writing approaches a friend that teaches writing . . . more
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July 06, 2008 10:52 AM EDT --
Horatio Hornblower is the ideal action hero, a character created by talented British author C.S. Forester, who also wrote The African Queen. Hornblower is a man subject to the same anxieties and doubts . . . more
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May 31, 2007 10:45 PM EDT --
On October 26, 1991 twenty-year-old Clare Abshire met the love of her life at the Newberry Library in Chicago. She planned the meeting. She had spent endless hours with Henry DeTamble since she was a child. . . . more
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February 12, 2007 10:00 AM EST --
By Jill Conner Browne with Karin Gillespie
I have to get straight to the point. I was disappointed.
To be fair I LOVE the Sweet Potato series. I laughed out loud reading Jill’s . . . more
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December 16, 2007 08:19 PM EST --
The American had been wining the war, thought the war was won, home by Christmas and all of that. But the shelling began one night, in the cold, and the war was on again, and they wondered if . . . more
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February 27, 2007 10:57 PM EST --
Michelle started out the day as normally as she always did. She heard the alarm blaring out her favorite music. She sat up slowly, stretched and yawned, and went to the kitchen. There she had her every . . . more
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April 06, 2007 02:16 PM EDT --
Here is a link to the Prologue, which is fairly short, if you want to read it first:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976948376
Chapter One
July 27, 2008
6:03 A.M. . . . more
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September 05, 2007 08:56 PM EDT --
Maven Chapter 1
RRRRIIIIPPP!
When Maven Morrigan slid down from the front seat of her minivan, her pumpkin of a rump caught the duct tape that held the seat together, releasing the broken spring below. . . . more
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