Writing Workshop

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  Crack Between…Fear surged through me then and I turned around quickly, as if something might be standing behind me, ready to attack.

  Writing assignment starting with the weather, a no no according to Elmore Leonard’s ten rules for crime fiction, although this is not a crime.

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  WW Exercise #11: Prologue…Folger rises from the desk in his study and stares from the window; it is mid January and snowing.

  Breaking the rules: Prologue and weather…

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  Somewhere, a place for us…I stared out of the window, unable to bring myself to look at him.

  For the Writing Workshop Starter Sentences #5

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  Exercise #8…His strong right hand was outstretched across the table gently cradling the wine bottle between them. His gaze moved tentativley from the…

  1984 came, and went…..they say….

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  Exercise # 1…Funny how you see someone, day in, day out, but never really see them.

  Late January ‘74….many lessons learned….some windows opened…....some windows simply diasappeared

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  P.....off…New spectacles! How wonderful I thought. Now I’ll be able to see clearly again. After a month of using my old ones after damaging my us…

  For the writing prompts on Writing Workshop.

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  Exercise 7 - Dialogue and Blocking…This is my very first attempt at writing dialogue and I found it challenging to say the least. Obviously I still have a long way to go …

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  Elated…Running along the beach she felt her steps becoming lighter and lighter. Just a short time ago she had received the news of her success…

  For the Writing Workshop Prompt 01/12/2009

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  Mnemonic Device…warning. content may offend.

  warning. content may offend This is a response to the exercise # 7 for the Writer’s Workshop I would love to read your feedback about the flow of this (moving among times and places) as well as the application of the exercise. In other words, what can I do to improve these things? Thanks! Louise

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  The Cyclone…I’d seen it before. How often had I sat and watched it through the eyes of the news cameraman. How flippant were the emotions I expre…

  Another go at writing something.

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  Waiting in the dark …It was okay for Joe to like the dark, he has eyes that can see around corners and penetrate the gloom.

  A short piece from the list of lead in sentences

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  Exercise 4 - The Bedside Drawer…The house was old, very old in fact. No one had lived in it for at least twenty years until I moved in. Old and dusty yet not dirty. ...

  A first attempt at writing like this