June 2012
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Kurt Vonnegut: 8 Essential Tips For Short Story... →
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Write World: Clichés →
writeworld:
seedy-street asks: Hi! I’ve always seen people say not to use clichés in your writing, but I’m not really really sure sometimes what qualifies as cliché. Do you know, or could provide a link, for a list of clichés that should be avoided? Please & Thank you :)
Alright, here we go:
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Writing Competition: Howard Frank Mosher Short... →
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Writing Competition (UK & IR only): Royal Society... →
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Writing Competition: New Millennium Writings (June... →
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Writing Competition: Chelsea Award for Short... →
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Writing Competition: Tony Hillerman Prize(June 1,... →
For full length Novels!!!!
Stories must be MYSTERY
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Writing Competition: Marguerite McGlinn Prize for... →
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Writing Competition: Stringybark Short Stories... →
The Stringybark Seven Deadly Sins Short Fiction Award 2012 is awarded for a short story that relates to one (or more) of the seven deadly sins: lust, gluttony; greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride/vanity.
May 2012
37 posts
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Writing Competition (N America only): Flannery... →
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Writing Competition: Glimmer Train (May 31, 2012... →
We are interested in reading your original, unpublished stories!
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Writing Competition: Spilling Ink (May 31, 2012... →
All genres welcome
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Writing Competition: Writer's Forum (May 31, 2012... →
All types of story are welcome, be it crime, comedy, romance, thriller, literary, twist in the tail, horror, SF etc
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Writing Competition: Frome Festival (May 31, 2012... →
It doesn’t say what they are looking for so i guess its anything
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Writer's Relief Blog: "Eleven Deadly Sins Of... →
writersrelief:
Most of us who aspire to be career writers are active promoters (or at least, we’re thinking about promoting). Even if you’re not in the “giving book signings” phase, you may be in the “attracting an agent” phase.
It’s only natural that we want people to notice our writing. Adults aren’t much different than children when we’re proud of our work (“Hey Mom! Look at me!”). Lucky for...
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the days are broken
just like the skies
and when the heavens open
so will my eyes
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9 words the english language desperately needs →
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DFTBA Short Story Contest! →
tumblrfiction:
What is this?
This is the DFTBA (Don’t Forget To Be Awesome) short story contest. It’s being run out of the Nerdfighter community, a group that started with Hank and John Green of the Vlogbrothers and now is made up of over 200,000 people worldwide.
What’s it about?
The stories all have to be on the subject of “An Act of Charity”
What’s it for?
It’s for charity. We’re donating...
doll parts: i want to write you into moon... →
goodmorning-spider:
i want to write you into moon beams, keep you safe within the stars
can we sing in the busted key of laughter and lace heaven between our fingers?
you have become a rocket, the sunrise after the rain and i am caught in your rays, the way they wrap warmth - even in distance.
you see, you’ve…
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Action: Pulse Pounding Tales (Please Check it... →
An anthology of fast-paced, two-fisted, full-blooded, pulse pounding fiction from established and new authors. Does anyone have any familiarity with the 1970s ‘action books’ typified by Don Pendleton’s Mack Bolan: The Executioner, or Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir’s Remo Williams: The Destroyer? Do you remember the UK homegrown westerns by the Piccadilly Cowboys, exemplified by George G Gillman’s...
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“Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence
Behold the Forms of nature....”
– On Being Human by C. S. Lewis
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“Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;
My sin was too much hope of...”
– On My First Son by Ben Jonson
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Writing Competition (CANADA only): Peter... →
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Writing Competition: New Letter (May 18, 2012... →
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Writing Competition : Abandonedtowers (May 18th... →
The theme for the first Abandoned Towers writing contest is:
The concept of “abandoned towers” must be incorporated into the piece, as a phrase, allusion, metaphor, physical tower… however you choose.
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“TO skies that were brighter
Turned he his prows;
To gods that were lighter...”
– BURNT SHIPS by Henrik Ibsen
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“That you are fair or wise is vain,
Or strong, or rich, or generous;
You must...”
– Fate by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece...”
– The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot
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“I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you — Nobody — Too?
Then...”
– I’m Nobody! Who are you? by Emily Dickinson
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“Often, to amuse themselves, the crew of the ship
Would fell an albatross, the...”
– The Albatross by Charles Baudelaire
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“This is the one song everyone
would like to learn: the song
that is...”
– Siren Song by Margaret Atwood
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Dante's Inferno
CANTO I
ONE night, when half my life behind me lay, I wandered from the straight lost path afar. Through the great dark was no releasing way; Above that dark was no relieving star. If yet that terrored night I think or say, As death’s cold hands its fears resuming are.
Gladly the dreads I felt, too dire to tell, The hopeless, pathless, lightless hours forgot, I turn my tale to that which...
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“1
AS I ponder’d in silence,
Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering...”
– As I Ponder’d in Silence. by Walt Whitman
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“Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.”
– Jules Renard (via paradeground)
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Good News
Well for me anyway..
One of my short stories is being published in an e-book. It will appear in Action: Pulse Pounding tales vol 1, which is being edited by Matt Hilton (Author of the Joe Hunter Series: Dead Men’s Dust, Judgement and wrath, Slash and Burn,Cut and Run, Blood and Ashes, Dead Men’s Harvest, No Going Back)
[[MORE]]37 Action-packed Pulse Pounding Tales!
That’s exactly...
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Write World: Word of the Day: Pococurante →
writeworld:
pococurante \poh-koh-koo-RAN-tee, noun:
1. Caring little; indifferent; nonchalant.
adjective: 1. A careless or indifferent person.
“She is a charming lady who happened to be born in Vitebsk, and no more than that,” he kept thinking, trying to convince himself that he would be a …
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April 2012
62 posts
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How to finish a novel (or any story, really). →
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Word List: List of Cooking Terms
writeworld:
Don’t just cook! Instead, consider:
Al Dente: Italian term used to describe pasta that is cooked until it offers a slight resistance to the bite.
Bake: To cook by dry heat, usually in the oven.
Barbecue: Usually used generally to refer to grilling done outdoors or over an open charcoal or wood fire. More specifically, barbecue refers to long, slow direct- heat cooking, including...
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