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Writing From Your Own Life
You may not realize it, but as you live your daily life, you are creating memories, details and history that is invaluable for you, for other writers, researchers and historians. I wish I had kept a...
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Wimpy Kid Contest, California Writers Club Young Writers Contest Banquet, and...
Enter the Wimpy Kid Contest! $500 for you and $1000 for your library! Deadline is June 10, 2011 For more information and guidelines, visit: http://wimpykid.com/contest/...
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Young Writers
On Saturday, May 21, the California Writers Club, Mt. Diablo Branch held it’s annual Young Writers Contest Banquet at Zio Fraedo’s Restaurant in Pleasant Hill. The twenty-seven award-winning students...
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Hot Button Memories
While choosing fresh vegetables at a farmer’s market, I wandered upon an unusual jewelry display. A woman had fashioned bracelets and rings out of old buttons that acted as a door to decades in the...
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Funny but true: Wedding Snafu
Yesterday, my husband drove us in the car to complete errands, windows cracked open a few inches to allow the cool breeze inside. My right hand rested outside on the window frame. As the car picked up...
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Writing About Your Life . . . Will it Harm Others?
Are you interested in writing episodes of your life? Working on a memoir? Personal narratives? You must be willing to be honest. What do you owe the other people in your life who will make...
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Your Lucky Break
I read Anna Quindlen’s lovely memoir, Lots of Candles Plenty of Cake and paused at her question, “Do all of us, by the time we’re grown-ups, have something that was our signal lucky break?” Thinking...
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This morning I learned a young acquaintance of ours ended his life this week. Stunned, I stood in silence, images of the man and our dealings with him reeling through my thoughts like a movie....
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Down Wedding Memory Lane
I’ve just arrived home from my niece’s wedding in Utah, where the bride and groom spoke of their love for each other under pine-scented air with majestic mountains all around us. There were small...
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Writing Realistic Dialogue
“So, like you know Nick’s mom?” the teen’s pony tail swished behind her as she walked. “Yeah, like she’s blonde right?” said the girl in the middle of the three, her short-shorts hiking up oh, so far....
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Elephant Seal Antics
This past week my cousin came from Wisconsin and we played tourist, taking her places in Northern California, including Ano Nuevo, where male elephant seals are currently moulting. Even though there...
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Summer Vacation Vs. Back to Writing: 10 Tips to Unblock Your Plot
Bryce Canyon I’ve returned from a lovely vacation in Utah, where family members met and hiked in Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks. There is one slight problem with vacations, however. They end!...
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