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WOOF Contest – Top 5 Picks:About Writing – Writing Nag – “5 Ways to Face Down Rejection”Poetry Robert Bourne – “Hope” Jennifer M Scott – “Waiting for September”Fiction – Jenn H. – “The Birth Announcement”Prose/Non-Fiction – Mike Fried – “There’s Continue reading WOOF Contest Results
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.Mark Twain Yesterday was a really hard day. It was my mentor’s memorial Continue reading The Importance of Having a Mentor
“I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of Continue reading Crowded on a velvet cushion…
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.Antoine de Saint-Exupery This writing prompt calendar will help when you’re staring at the blank screen. Now Continue reading Need Writing Prompts Each Month?
The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many. ~Oliver Continue reading Autumn is Right Around the Corner
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.” Sylvester Stallone I don’t have any statistics on creative writing rejections. I do know that many best-selling authors often Continue reading 5 Ways to Face Down Rejection
To see the Summer SkyIs Poetry, though never in a Book it lie –True Poems flee.~Emily Dickinson I wonder what Emily meant by “true poems flee”, I’m sure it is open to interpretation but after a hiatus I am ready Continue reading True Poems Flee
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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental Continue reading Change Your Life One Thought At A Time
Practice, practice, practice writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes and then seeing where you went wrong.Jeffrey A. Carver