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Announcement: Writer's Digest Top 101 Sites: Year #5

Posted: charlesp @ Tue Apr 08, 2008 10:56 pm

I have it on good authority that we've made the 2008 Writer's Digest list of Best Websites for Writers. Thank you to all of you who have made this com...

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Protagonist: "South African" :"ATF agent"

Antagonist: "Scandinavian" :"Stutterer"

Situation: "Tension is about to be broken"

Location: "South America"

Time: "While asleep"

Item: "closet"

Writing Challenge: TUESDAY POETRY CHALLENGE - 3-9-10

Posted: Mlou @ Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:38 pm

Thought we could try a bit of a twist on an old favorite this week.
We have here a sort of Chinese Menu word list,...

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Random Plot Points

Poetry Word List

curtains

tripod

waterlogged

concubine

empathic

bass

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