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A Tisket, A Tasket

May 26, 2010

Image via Wikipedia “A tisket, a tasket, a green and yellow …,” the soft baby voice singing came to a stop.  Madison turned, looking up at the woman seated nearby in a lounge chair.  “Miss Terry.” The little blonde cherub pronounced the name as “Terwy”.  It had been endearing the first time. Now it was [...]

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creative writing exercise – I needed a prompt

September 7, 2009

I’ve been heads down on a (non-writing) project the last week, so I needed some quick inspiration to kick start this post.  I cast about looking for a decent writing prompt/story starter and came across the site: http://www.writersdigest.com/WritingPrompts/ I scanned the first couple of pages and ran across one that clicked with me.  The prompt [...]

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creative writing exercise – one sin

August 31, 2009

A few weeks ago, Eric posted about a writing exercise in which you only use single syllable words.  I decided to give it a try, but first I had to come up with a title to work from.  I cleared my mind, set forth the constraint that it was to be a phrase consisting of [...]

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Short and Sweet

August 20, 2009

A few days back I ran across a small paperback my wife had lying around.  It was The Miracle of Languageby Richard Lederer and was published in ’91.  It’s a quick read, musings on English and it’s use but one chapter hit me.  It was “The Case for Short Words”.  The chapter was fittingly brief, only [...]

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