Tag: create
group name: thewriters
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March 01, 2008 11:35 AM EST --
There was music, the kind that never went away: the Stones and the Doors, Janis Joplin, very early Pink Floyd. It was one of those evenings.
And I hated every moment of it.
What, these old farts . . . more
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February 25, 2008 08:03 PM EST --
The warehouse reeked of urine and rat feces. I pressed a sleeve to my nose.
Drugs. My lily-white linen company trafficked drugs. I didn't know who was involved, . . . more
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August 16, 2008 12:06 AM EDT --
This is no advice for inquisitive teens, but rather a suggestion for novelists.
Don't play it safe, don't hold back, don't play timid.
A novel is the perfect occasion for saying what . . . more
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March 08, 2008 11:41 PM EST --
I flipped through John Gardner's On Writers and Writing earlier today. In places tedious and too highbrow for a casual read, it nevertheless started me thinking. About novelists. About their novels. . . . more
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August 22, 2007 03:56 PM EDT --
If you are a writer--of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essay, novels, short stories, jingles--then The Writers is a group for you.
Come put your work on display. This is the place to let . . . more
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March 03, 2008 06:00 PM EST --
Elegance, Eloquence, Arrogance and Graft. A talented trio of lawyers and their boss.
Elegance is smooth. He draws the eye, captures the senses. He is the front man. . . . more
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December 01, 2007 05:22 PM EST --
I crushed Og's skull today. He tried to take back the animal I'd just stolen from him. But my sons need to eat, need to survive.
When my sons are older, I will tell . . . more
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January 21, 2008 08:49 PM EST --
Say no to your inner censor, that is.
All writers have one. It's the voice in your head that says you can't possibly say that . What would your boss think if he knew you wrote . . . more
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March 09, 2008 07:54 PM EDT --
Layla peered across the universe from the observation tower at World's End.
The perch over vast nothingness should've been precarious, but the Divine One anchored her.
Time slowed and Layla . . . more
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April 01, 2008 07:40 PM EDT --
April is Script Frenzy month. Are you participating?
Sponsored by the same zany people who bring us the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in November, Script Frenzy is a challenge to . . . more
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December 08, 2007 04:41 PM EST --
A soft night--gentle and quiet and tender.
They stroll the sidewalks, listening to silence. Snow muffles every trace of traffic. No horns or screeching. No squealing. . . . more
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March 03, 2008 07:38 PM EST --
Have you ever wondered why Alice doesn't live here anymore?
Having nothing better to do one Spring Break, I visited Alice's former home.
I wouldn't live there anymore either. . . . more
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March 04, 2008 08:34 PM EST --
Cracks run deep, below the surface
Starting and stopping and reversing
Creating a labyrinth of alleys leading first nowhere and then into the infinite
He follows those roads, losing himself among . . . more
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March 26, 2008 06:10 PM EDT --
The road less traveled or the highway known to all. . .
Can I choose both?
I want the path that beckons and the one that hides and the one known only to the road builder. I want high roads . . . more
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