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Creative Writing

Cakepan Manuscript – Chapter Four: Getaway Plan

October 18, 2011

This is a creative writing experiment, shamelessly stolen from the Chopin Manuscript: a serialized story where each author writes a different chapter. The members of this blog are each writing their own chapter, and we’re calling ours the “Cakepan Manuscript”. You can start reading at Chapter One, which began with the premise: “An unemployed teacher, [...]

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Cakepan Manuscript – Chapter Three: Pay to Play

October 11, 2011

This is a creative writing experiment, shamelessly stolen from the Chopin Manuscript: a serialized story where each author writes a different chapter. The members of this blog are each writing their own chapter, and we’re calling ours the “Cakepan Manuscript”. You can start reading at Chapter One, which began with the premise: “An unemployed teacher, [...]

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Cakepan Manuscript – Chapter Two: Playing Games

October 4, 2011

This is a creative writing experiment, shamelessly stolen from the Chopin Manuscript: a serialized story where each author writes a different chapter. The members of this blog are each writing their own chapter, and we’re calling ours the “Cakepan Manuscript”. You can start reading at Chapter One, which began with the premise: “An unemployed teacher, [...]

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Cakepan Manuscript – Chapter One: Broken Bottle

September 28, 2011

Our blog has been quiet of late, so we’ve decided to try something new. The Chopin Manuscript is a serialized story where each author writes a different chapter. We’re shamelessly stealing that idea for what we call the “Cakepan Manuscript”. To help me write the first chapter of this impending masterpiece, the other members of [...]

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creative writing + self analysis

January 17, 2011

In our writing group, which all of the posters on this blog belong to, we have been picking a “logline” prompt to at least have one defined writing “assignment” to complete for each meeting.  A couple of weeks ago, I rejoined the writing group in earnest after an extended absence and brought this piece to [...]

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