Tag: writing
member name: Fred Hose
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December 13, 2006 12:45 PM EST --
What makes an artist create or better still what makes an artist create gloriously?
I was good scholar at school but I came alive when it was that part of our English classes when we were asked to write . . .
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August 13, 2007 12:00 PM EDT --
The following is based is based on information taken from excellent Complete Idiot's Guide to Literature by Jay Stevenson Ph D.
I compiled these notes in order to discover where I fit into the world . . .
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November 08, 2007 02:40 PM EST --
This article is one of two called
1. The Miracle of Writing
2. The Miracle of Creating
One thing sure about the art of good writing is that the all time Master has to be Shakespeare. . . .
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July 24, 2007 03:12 PM EDT --
Nicholas and I parked our Harleys outside that great majestic Manhattan hotel in downtown New York. It was well known for its grandeur and opulence. Merely to walk through the large gold and glass doors . . .
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December 27, 2007 01:48 PM EST --
I hereby signal my return to Gather with this light hearted poem.
I will soon comment on and respond to all the inputs of my dear friends.
I was away for a while. To a bush camp for a period . . .
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January 09, 2008 06:11 AM EST --
I wanted to post something exuberant. So here goes:
Jason and Haya walked joyfully hand in hand over to the two hangars that stood some distance away from the farmhouse, near the horse paddock. . . .
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September 19, 2007 12:02 PM EDT --
How can I long
For what should be mine?
How can I find
What I already know?
Are there different clouds
Over different seas?
Are there sands
That are more golden?
All I know now is this . . .
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December 11, 2007 01:04 PM EST --
Is today's love
A memory
Of a dream?
Were you led
A thousand miles
To your love here
Where your dream
Your destined love
Waits for you?
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December 22, 2007 08:04 AM EST --
"Do you ken John Peel
With his coat so gay?
Do you ken John Peel
At the break of day?"
Part of a traditional Scottish folk song.
The young fox knew that he should have already been . . .
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August 07, 2009 10:08 AM EDT --
THE SEA AND THE SHRINKING ISLAND
My happy sojourn in the fascinating Basque country around San Sebastian was sadly ending. For an unforgettable ten days, I had worked on a farm, shared meals with the . . .
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November 01, 2007 05:54 AM EDT --
"My name is Miguel Pedro Gonsalez Alvarez and I'm from the village of Cordoba in Mexico. When you read this story you will think that I'm smokin' that loco weed.
But I'll say no . . .
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November 02, 2007 06:33 AM EDT --
Note:
The premise of this story may seem far fetched. There is, however, some basis for it in the book "The Soul of the White Ant" by Eugene Marais. In this thesis, the author refers to the . . .
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November 07, 2007 05:16 AM EST --
For Amy's Tuesday Essentials
Introduction
I write my novels in three parts :
Act 1 : Beginning (hook), set up, overview, ending with a turning point
Act 2 : Development, conflict, . . .
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January 17, 2008 05:42 PM EST --
Did you hear that clarion call?
Was it like a hunter's horn?
Or an eagle at a waterfall?
I know, for I have heard it too
It's more like the calmest hush
And it's not from there . . .
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November 05, 2007 10:10 AM EST --
1. Search
Play for me fugues by Bach
And Hail to Thee's by Haydn
Four seasons by Vivaldi
A passage for the violin.
Tell me what did Hillary see
Was it Tibet or deep into his heart? . . .
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September 26, 2007 01:45 PM EDT --
The Fine Art of Re-Reading and External Critiquing
Preamble
Of course editing is of great importance but there is a form of editing that is used but often not effectively enough,
This is external editing. . . .
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March 13, 2008 11:28 AM EDT --
During the recent much discussed, revamp many things happened. Some were trivial and some were revelations.
One aspect of the change is that "connections" were turned into "friends". . . .
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October 03, 2008 05:16 AM EDT --
I think that in the vision of a writer is the making of order our out of chaos. In this way, he is like a Michelangelo making a David out of what seems, at first, to be a slab of rock.
His mission is . . .
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August 15, 2009 04:20 AM EDT --
While I was an exchange student in Germany and because of a sufficient skill in handling a stick and a ball, I was chosen to represent a German Students Team at a hockey tournament in Madrid, Spain. . . .
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December 13, 2006 11:06 AM EST --
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