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Safe And Sound

“God was there anything more solid, more right, than knowing your child was where she ought to be? Safe and sound.” Jodi Picoult To me as a parent safe and sound would be in their rooms under my roof. To … Continue reading

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Doesn’t That Make Life A Story?

Every time I finish reading a book, I open my notebook and copy down sentences and paragraphs that I have liked and underlined. I say underlined because I am not much of a fan of using highlighters in a book; … Continue reading

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A Writer Should Write To Be Read

Most literary agents, editors and publishers claim that you have to be an exceptionally talented writer so that your first manuscript will be accepted for publication and will also be a success. I personally don’t think that only talent will … Continue reading

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Who Can You Trust These Days

With the advance in technology and the availability of the internet, writing opportunities leap at you left and right via e-mail and different social networks, like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google, to name just a few. There’s a service for just … Continue reading

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Literary Larceny

Literary theft or plagiarism and lying has always been part of literature and the publishing world. What was once hard to notice is nowadays easily detected. Technology and digital printing have a lot to do with it. In fact the … Continue reading

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How About We Go Online And Check

“Let me go and check online for the reviews,” says my daughter every time I want to buy a product for myself or for the house. “Let me find out if it’s good and what people have to say about … Continue reading

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Globally Connected Through Words

When I first started blogging I was kind of scared. Being from an older generation I wasn’t sure that I would be able to handle the technology part of the process. I knew the rest would be easy since I … Continue reading

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What Is There In Writing Except Language

Some say that there is a decline in the novel, while others claim that it is not the novel that is in decline but the readership. I personally think that at no time in the history of the novel has … Continue reading

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We Never Live

“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.” Voltaire Has it ever crossed your mind how much our lives rely on other people or things or events? It seems that we are always expecting something, we are always … Continue reading

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A Fine Dark Place

We all at one point in our lives have read books, some more than others. There has always been a story we have been interested in, a character we have liked or even hated and have been unable to forget, … Continue reading

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