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  • Pain stalks me with unerring guile. It's always there searching for a different nerve to torture, an unsuspecting muscle to strangle, a mighty bone to crack. I walk an...
  • Started by Cori Howard
    Last reply by Sarah Marxer
    Hi everyone! I'd like to begin again with a discussion of the essays by Anne Lamott and Sheree-Lee Olson. Anne is one of my favorite writers on motherhood, not because...
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  • Started by Ava Bleu
    Last reply by Sandra Kucinich-Horn
    I often joke that you know you're getting old when the numbers you get at the doctor's office and prompt you to jump for joy or swig a bottle of tequila.  But it's not...
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  • As a movement for actors teacher I suggest to my students that movement comes from the word, the thought and the big idea. An actor's body must be alive to the message...
  • Hello Suz After I kept going back to my ms and editing just a little bit more I finally realised it was time to stop and get an expert in, and now I'm just waiting to...
  • Hi Andrea, Writing is like anything else. It is a muscle that you develop. The more you ignore the box of brownies, the easier it is to continue to ignore them. Give y...
  • Started by Sakki selznick
    Last reply by Elisabeth Kinsey
    It never occured to the Halburtons to question the existence or the goodness of God. J. Seneca in particular, was absolutely certain he understood God’s Will, just as...
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  • Note: This 500-word nonfiction piece was posted on my friend Elaine Soloway's blog (August 8, 2009). I welcome your comments, as 1) it's nice to hear from someone I do...
  • Started by Jenny Steffan
    The selective androgen receptor modulators known as SARMs, is an active drug or medicine that is basically used to triggers changes in the DNA to increase individual m...
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  • Hi Everyone. A few years ago I submitted to a batch of contests. Won Honorable Mentions in 3. Writer's Digest & Lorian Hemingway twice. It's a good exercise I think and always good for the writing muscle I think. Good luck to anyone/everyone who enters a contest this year!