Category: WRITING
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First Ever Short Story
If I won the lottery, depending on how much money it was, I would pay off my house, my mom’s house, my sister’s house, give each of my grown daughters 50K, put the rest in the bank, and quit my job so I could spend more time with my family, and more time writing…. I…
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God Knows…
Her Happy childhood innocence. HerDesire to live life to the fullest. HerInsatiable curiosity. HerNaivete. HerRegretful choices. HerEyes, opened to the consequences. HerHeart, filled with love and grief. HerHidden pain, so deep. HerDesire to sleep… forever. HerDetermination to live. HerWillingness to align her will to His. HerFaith, deep down, is unbreakable. God knows HER!And He loves…
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And then this happened…
Feeling very emotional, one day, I wondered if I could release my emotions through a fictional scene created from emotions I was feeling. In my mind, I was screaming right along with her. Here is the result… “NOOO!! It was NOT supposed to happen this way!!” Her screams echoed through the trees. “Nooo! Nooo! Nooo!…
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Fact or Fiction
The discovery tonight that fiction writing is not my inspiration or gift. Rather, non-fiction journaling of thoughts and experiences holds me captive to the words I want to imprint on paper. Stephen King’s dark, scary novels do not interest me, but his Memoir of the Craft of Writing called On Writing has held me captive…
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An Unexpected Joy
Reading for fun is one of those guilty pleasures I do not allow myself time for very often. It seems that my mind has this crazy belief that if there is time to sit around and read, then the reading should be for learning or increasing knowledge about a subject of great interest, not just…
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