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Blogging Ate My Homework
I read the description for an online class to help writers establish a platform. One of the things mentioned was how ineffective an author blog to share serial stories, writing experiences and poetry was. Hello? That is the description of CG Express. So I’m daring to pose this question, “Is blogging a waste of time?…
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My 911 Story – 20 years later
September 10, 2001, the New York skyline included the parallel lines of the Twin Towers and I saw it every day on my way to work . The next day that view was gone. I worked at a company forty minutes from Manhattan. That morning I just finished breakfast in the cafeteria. I walked down…
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The Basket
They sit in a circle, the symbol of unity, weaving the same basket, it works best that way. Young, and old, one generation blending with the next, hands at work, bending, threading, pulling the reeds prepared by experience, softened with love because this project, is no less than the project, their very lives. When one…
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Excavation
I dig in the dark for you, go where you are. Why do you hide in the shadows, as if that is where you belong; where you are safe? Don’t believe the lies. The dark promises escape, Invisibility, Freedom to roam, No one cares, No one claims to care.It doesn’t hurt,When the darkness clouds the…
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Pecking Order
I am a charlatan, among charlatans, In a crowd of clowns, Dancing and smiling, Wearing faces that don’t belong to us, Waiting for our chance in the spotlight, Watching from the sidelines, Believing, knowing,When the next person drops the mike,One of us will pick it up.
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Connect the Dots – Editing Tip
First draft writing is a blast. For me, it’s usually full steam ahead, word count racking up, while I’m in a cloud of creative bliss. Except, for those moments when there’s a the screech of brakes and I’m staring at the screen pecking out a word here, a word there, back spacing more than entering.…
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