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…America, apparently.
But not first with a stopover in Rotterdam.
The beauty of fiction is that a writer can have it pass for fact. We established that the harbor scene painted in the Thirties by Roger Hebbelinck is Antwerp, but we allowed each author entering The Thousand Word Contest to toss [...]
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Oh, Literati!
Here is is July 21rst, in bee-you-tee-full Oceanside, and I am about to head to the Sunset Market where our non-prof writing program Kid Expression has leased a booth to help us find both students and volunteer mentors for our classes, which are running smoothly now evry Saturday morning.
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Literati! (I would prefer to address you as Nation, but Stephen Cobert stole that one from me)
Minnie is the Nom d’ Plummage of…wait! I can’t tell you! At least, not until this contest is over. All the stories posted are done so anonymously, each entrant given a name in alphabetical [...]
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Oh, my lascivious Literati!
Our Thousand Word Contest invites you to write a story based on this painting and prompt. Details for entering the contest can be found on the home page under current contests. You could win the painting and invite women up to your apartment to look at your [...]
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Hello all.
I have a little better image (image conscious? moi?) to show you here of what you can win in our Thousand Word Contest. Write up to a thousand words(but no less than 500) and this painting could be yours. The painting is not only the prize, but the prompt [...]
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Or not. Elton is the pseudonym for contestant number 5 for our Thousand Word Contest. What is a little bit funny is that Elton’s story is exactly 1000 words. I guess it can be done! Are a thousand of your words worth a picture? Enter our contest and find out. here [...]
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Maybe the secret of tragedy is timing and the secret of artistry is interpretation. Cora here has viewed askew and delivered entry number three in our Thousand Word Contest.
In case you’ve just tuned in to this channel, here’s the meat and potatoes of the contest, with no filler:
www.awordwithyoupress.com/2011/07/05/the-thousand-word-contest-get-on-it/
Now I [...]
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Bart Simpson. Bart Maverick . Bay Area Rapid Transit. Or BART,
the pseudonym for contestant number two in our Thousand Word Contest. Yeah, probably that one!
To keep from being redundant and repeating myself and telling you the the same information more than once and being redundant, see what [...]
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Literati! And those of you wish you were!
Our European port is getting a little commerce! We have had several stories pick up a mooring line and are now tethered to the wharf, ready to disembark .
For those just coming to the site, this will all make sense if you [...]
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CONTEST UPDATE–ALERT!! JULY 7: I HAVE DECIDED THAT ALL ENTRIES TWO THE THOUSANDWORD CONTEST (www.awordwithyoupress.com/2011/07/05/the-thousand-word-contest-get-on-it/)WILL BE POSTED ANONYMOUSLY. EACH WRITER WILL BE ASSIGNED A PSEUDONYM BASED ON THE ALPHABET, IN ORDER OF THE RECEIPT OF THEIR SUBMISSION. This will level the playing field, and leave you guessing just who wrote [...]
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CONTEST UPDATE–ALERT!! JULY 7: I HAVE DECIDED THAT ALL ENTRIES WILL BE POSTED ANONYMOUSLY. EACH WRITER WILL BE ASSIGNED A PSEUDONYM BASED ON THE ALPHABET, IN ORDER OF THE RECEIPT OF THEIR SUBMISSION. This will level the playing field, and leave you guessing just who wrote what.
Here are [...]
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O, Literati!
Quietly contemplate the first sentence of Monica M. Brinkman’s upcoming novel, offered up for your enjoyment in The Second Annual Victor Villasenor First Sentence Contest.
Angela sat, still and silent, arms to her side and legs placed firmly on the ground.
Angela sat, still and silent, arms to her [...]
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O, Literati!
Kenneth Weene submits this frank first sentence to ensnare your interest in his novel, Times To Try the Soul of Man, a a tale of coming of age and conspiracy set in New York City in 2000-2001.
Perhaps, if the sex had been better, I wouldn’t have noticed the [...]
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O, Literati!
Ponder another entry from George Verongos in The Second Annual Victor Villasenor First Sentence Contest.
My First Cigarette
by George Verongos
It was a typical Midwestern late-summer afternoon, and I found myself staring at a closed cupboard door in the kitchen.
I had just woken up from a [...]
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O, Literati, open the door and peer ’round the corner of Time at this entry to The Second Annual Victor Villasenor First Sentence Contest. George Verongos offers up a recollection from Food, a memoir collection of short stories about how food and tradition effect contemporary life for a young boy in [...]
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Elvis has indeed left the building! We had a lot of fun with our contest Elvis 101, All Shook-up! but it’s time for something new.Official rules will follow sometime tomorrow morning once the details have been ironed out, but for now, go to the lower drawer in your bedroom and pull [...]
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NEWSFLASH: Would you like your author-bio broadcast along with a link to your site? Simply include the info on the same document that contains your contest entry. AND if you have a professional service to offer writers or artists, send us a separate email to admin@awordwithyourpress.com with a few lines about [...]
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Our own personal Brit rattles the cage, with this one. So he needs to set a trap? (pour moi?) What to use for bait? This is an ominous choice. I defer to the master. The Trap
by Derek Thompson
The rat had to die, simple as that; rats spread [...]
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What makes a Write Tight and a Tight Write Right is open to conjecture. It can be the dialogue, the narrative – the way the words flow across the page. Tisha Deutsch has combined the forms of story and poetry into a really tight write.
And don’t forget, it could be [...]
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…after weeding out all extraneous words so there are EXACTLY one hundred! ” As in “One Hundred Dollars!” That is what you could win for the best entry for the contest that ends Midnight, Dec 30th. Our thanks once again to Ron Chatham, free-lance journalist photographer for sponsoring this contest. If [...]
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