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15 hours ago ago from The Parking Lot Confessional
This week at The Parking Lot Confessional we're talking about how got where we are now. I'm one of those people who always wanted to be a writer. My mom loves to tell of how I wrote stories when I was little. (She still has them.) I was an avid reader, gobbling up books faster than she could get me to the Book Mobile each week. During my high school years I wrote dreadful poetry. (Like, really dreadful.) In college, as an English major, ...
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23 hours ago ago from Tipperary Libraries News — Library News From The Premier County
Congratulations to Jonas Stankevicius (Aged 9) for winning our Christmas Short Story Competition. WOW! Its Christmas Eve right now. I'm going to the Library now as quick as I can. Near the Library there was Carol singers singinig Lets Celebrate this xmas . There was a big Santa Claus poster say: Circus of Xmas Near the Library was a big snow machine and they hitted me in the head and in the leg. My pants went down and all the people saw ...
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21 hours ago ago from Through The Tollbooth
I loved to read when I was a child- hidden, quiet in my room at night. But when I remember holiday stories I don't remember books read in private. I remember stories read aloud. The Christmas story I love most- both to hear and to read- is Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory. There are wonderful audio versions. Even one read by Capote himself. (You can also find audio of this story on the internet but posting them must be a violation of ...
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7 hours ago ago from Elizabeth Mosier
About My Life as a Girl : Q: How much of My Life as a Girl is based on events in your own life? A : Like Jaime Cody, I grew up in Arizona and attended Bryn Mawr, which I felt would literally save my life: transform me from a smart girl with a romantic weakness for bad boys into a scholarly woman of substance. I also drew upon some of my job experiences: waiting tables at many different kinds of restaurants and cleaning hotel rooms ...
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1 day ago ago from 49 Writers
A few months ago, I was looking up some detail about Harper Lee's life when I stumbled across a link to a short essay she wrote about a particularly touching Christmas gift she received from her closest friends, a couple living in Manhattan. In our family we celebrate Chanukah, which just ended, and I'm not usually the type to look for holiday-specific items to post, but this story moved me -- and I think it would move any writer imagining ...
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