Tag: journal
member name: Meredith G.
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September 22, 2008 04:41 PM EDT --
While pausing temporarily between novels, my husband and I found that time lay upon our upturned palms like a slug, staring at us blankly in the face. The Editor of course works, as do I in taking care . . .
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August 31, 2008 08:22 PM EDT --
Once-loved relic of dancing feet,
New styles invade your elegant halls.
Though all around is blasting noise
One classic room devotes itself inward.
Little ladies in black and pink . . .
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September 04, 2008 04:39 PM EDT --
This last weekend we had a fantastically windy day; I was driving the car, delivering lunch to my husband in the minivan, the younger kids riding in the back. The traffic lights along one, particular . . .
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November 08, 2008 12:01 AM EST --
Does food add flavor to your writing? Before you snort indignantly and wave away the idea, consider writers in coffee houses, sucking down caffeinated beverages and chai latte as fast as humanly possible, . . .
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May 28, 2008 12:13 PM EDT --
Unusual for May, it rained here the other day. I was writing on the couch and heard the sudden sounds of tiny drops drumming on the roof. Remembering my laundry outside, I bolted up to hastily retrieve . . .
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July 07, 2008 12:09 PM EDT --
While my nearly-obsolete HP laptop has many charms of its own, there is something wonderful about a clean, new notebook, thick with blank, clear paper just waiting to be written upon. The line of the . . .
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October 03, 2008 07:08 PM EDT --
I was writing while making soup the other day. Perhaps those reading this will wonder at the method one would use to do such a thing but I cannot answer; it merely happened and was not premeditated. As . . .
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November 12, 2008 12:57 PM EST --
Hats off to Google once again.
To all budding writers/artists out there... head to Google presentations online; a free service, you can upload, organize and present images and descriptions your work . . .
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June 12, 2008 01:04 PM EDT --
Our foray into the realm of historically-accurate romance-fiction has somehow materialized into a series; we completed the first novel and put it up on our website for sale.
I must . . .
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July 30, 2008 01:17 PM EDT --
We may never go back to plain, old romance fiction. (tongue in cheek) Historical fiction with several dashes of romance seems far more rewarding to write, read back and edit; rewarding, . . .
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August 29, 2008 02:12 PM EDT --
Having just recovered from the flu, I am highly enjoying the irony of having scads of time to write, yet being unable to do so. One is perfectly able to write away while sick, but exhaustion, mucus . . .
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November 03, 2008 05:01 PM EST --
A reader pointed out this 'new writers' program from MacMillan publishing in the replies to one of my blogs. Since there are so many budding writers here, I thought I'd share a unique opportunity. . . .
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November 13, 2008 04:56 PM EST --
Completing our latest book is proving somewhat difficult. It seems I have been stuck on Chapter Seven for several weeks. It is not so much a block of ideas merely a lack of time. When . . .
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May 29, 2009 11:53 AM EDT --
( a small poem tribute to my eldest daughter)
Daughter…
I remember the first time my hand
Curved behind your infant head;
Its surface like small golden field . . .
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June 28, 2008 12:56 AM EDT --
The elusive sections of writing (known as chapters) are begining to amass on our latest project, book two in the 'America' series. While more work, historical fiction is gradually growing on me. . . .
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October 24, 2008 03:01 PM EDT --
Our house is quiet this evening; though it is often so, it has been unusually still at night this whole week. My oldest daughter, having found that Pride and Prejudice was a far better story in book form . . .
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December 02, 2008 05:02 PM EST --
At the end of December I will be 31 years of age. I don’t know about other women my age, but when I was a young teenager, I heard often that a woman’s life ‘peaks’ at thirty. Thirty was an age to be . . .
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May 18, 2009 01:05 PM EDT --
Ten days ago the escrow on our new home closed. Well, it’s not new, per say… but to us it seems so. We’ve spent a frantic yet satisfying week moving in and organizing everything to optimum efficiency, . . .
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September 07, 2009 02:38 PM EDT --
I’ve often heard it said that humans are creatures of habit. Whether habit or no, many are the daily tasks that one must perform in order to ensure Order be kept, maintained and, occasionally, . . .
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July 20, 2008 11:08 PM EDT --
The new America series has a lot of promise for us. Not only is is highly enjoyable to write a character-filled story replete with historical facts but it seems to be an enjoyable way to acquaint . . .
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