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Earlier this week, J K Rowling posted this on Twitter: Quite coincidentally, a couple of days earlier I’d just started[…]
Read moreA Writing Exercise Courtesy of Harlan Ellison
I have a writing exercise for you. I’d like you to produce a short story using the premise “The 102-year[…]
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Many familiar English words and phrases have interesting derivations, and because England was once a great sea power, a surprising[…]
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Author Chuck Palahniuk (pronounced paula-nick) – author of Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, and Choke – says he’s close to[…]
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