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Follow the Leader – Exploring Character Types
What you are speaks so loudly, I can’t hear what you are saying.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Have you been there? There’s a sign in the conference room (remember those?)that says when a meeting is over all chairs should be pushed in and clean the wipe board.Your boss finishes a meeting, you start to tidy…
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Into the Darkness
The sun in glorious orange pink,rises in my rear view mirror.I’m driving into darkness,with the promise of day,behind me.I know it’s there,but I must have courage,to go forward even though,I can’t see every pothole,every crack,the depth of the curve.Soon,one will pass the other,and while I think on this,the pink of light has spread,an arch, behind,…
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Childhood Joys – Writing for Readers
It is true, everything in my childhood is not pleasant to talk about but that is not the focus of this post. On the contrary, let me tell you about the joys of my childhood. The joy of swimming for hours on end in the neighbor’s pool. They didn’t have any kids which makes sense…
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Midnight Charades – A short poem
The moon reflects off the snow, Into my bedroom, Enticing me as though it were the sun To think, to ponder, to plan.
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Is
I don’t recognize the sound, Of my own breathing. I’m in a vacuum. Don’t ask me how I feel. I feel nothing. I feel everything. It cancels out, To silence. “I think therefore I am”, I exist, Hung in space, And time, In someone’s mind, no substance. No that’s not it, Filling a void, With…
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“I Sent You a Letter”- thoughts on query letters
Sent out a query letter yesterday. Have you ever done that? After months of relentless writing and editing, refining, cutting swaths of thousands of words, it all comes down to a one page letter.It is easy to do the actual submitting these days with e-forms and email but without having a referral from a conference…
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Clare Graith 