Tag: writing
group name: englishalphabet
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July 15, 2007 02:49 PM EDT --
One of the most useful mnemonic devices in my life is the "I Before E" rule. I often have trouble with transposed letters, and sometimes neither "ei" nor "ie" looks right . . .
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June 19, 2007 10:30 PM EDT --
The little fixer-upper we bought when we moved to our quaint rural retreat sixteen years ago came with one distinct concern of which we were well aware: water.
Our house gets its water from a 400 foot . . .
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May 03, 2007 09:46 AM EDT --
As my daughters and I drove to their babysitter's house my 7 year old set forth on a writing lesson for me.
"Mom, that author lady came to our school and told us that when she was a little . . .
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September 08, 2007 11:55 PM EDT --
My Mom is a stalker.
She follows me everywhere I go.
When I’m playing in the back yard, she watches me through the slats on the blind. She thinks I can’t see her, but I can.
She drives me . . .
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May 17, 2007 03:16 PM EDT --
A Gather member with the initials R.A. (Gather often prefers that we not name people, so I'm not) recently published an article directed at his detractors. In a comment on that article, he mentioned . . .
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July 05, 2007 11:32 PM EDT --
Mandy knew to the minute when she had first started to become suspicious: 12:43 p.m. last November 8th, a Thursday. She was running late, having intended to take a short lunch break. The sales guys were . . .
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June 29, 2007 02:31 PM EDT --
The Interrobang WTF Is That
I was innocently eating watermelon while listening the NPR one afternoon earlier this month when Says You! informed me that there is a punctuation mark for grammatical situations . . .
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September 09, 2007 12:16 AM EDT --
When Janice woke up, everything seemed the same. Her same old slippers were lying on the floor beside her bed, same as always. Her same old bathrobe was hanging on the end of her bed, just the same as . . .
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April 03, 2008 03:46 PM EDT --
But maybe it does.
I support the absolute freedom of thought and speech. This means that I support your freedom to have whatever ridiculous opinion you want.
But I also support, . . .
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May 22, 2007 01:29 AM EDT --
After the football player with the broken leg was wheeled off the field I turned to my dad and said, "See! You want me to play football!"
My mother, she loved this. She said, "Yeah Floyd! . . .
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July 14, 2007 07:33 PM EDT --
Their, There, They're, Little Writer
They're over there with their homophones on, little writer, and they can't hear you pounding the keys over here. No, I know how frustrating it is to have . . .
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June 14, 2007 12:42 AM EDT --
Whilst perusing the Gather main page I noticed (and maybe you have too) that something seemed to be missing. I thought, Wouldn't it be nice to have an Essentials Religion/Spirituality group? . . .
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November 08, 2008 06:53 AM EST --
Life goes on, and though we are ever mindful that it is a gift, given our recent brush with the impending lack of it, it remains Chinese curse "interesting".
I just scared up a couple does . . .
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April 26, 2007 08:21 PM EDT --
This poem is dedicated to that perennial cockroach that seems to infest the gather landscape in ever increasing numbers. If this is about you, you know it. You wish you could write, but you can't, . . .
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November 19, 2007 01:49 PM EST --
Here are the titles of the 21 most discussed articles. As you can see, games and chat are the members' choice today.
Articles published within the past . . .
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April 11, 2008 12:15 PM EDT --
So some of you may have noticed that I can be a bit fiery while making comments or writing articles. I can often be rude and condescending. For that, I apologize.
It's easy to get . . .
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July 23, 2007 05:29 PM EDT --
I received this gathermail today:
Hey J,
I just wanted to let all promising writers know about the writers contest. You seem like you would really appreciate a contest like this. So here it is:
ANNOUNCING . . .
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May 17, 2008 10:04 AM EDT --
Words. They are very powerful things.
Of all the many inventions of human kind, words, sound that convey an endless range of meanings, must be amongst the most important. They can . . .
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May 16, 2007 07:32 AM EDT --
You've done what seemed best,
And the laughter's come often,
But in the dark late at night,
Your heart's resolve weakly softens,
And you start thinking bout,
You fill your dreams about, . . .
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January 24, 2008 05:04 PM EST --
This is an experiment. I'm writing this during my break at work. I will do minimal editing, so if you find errors, please don't complain to me about how I shouldn't be posting . . .
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