Kathleen Antrim, California Writers Club Tri-Valley Member, has returned from a ten-day USO tour of the Middle East
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“Enough Time for Christmas”, a short story by Julaina Kleist-Corwin about Adrian Toryfter, her deceased son’s short story written when he was a high school student, has been published in A Miracle Under the Christmas Tree: Real Stories of Hope, Faith and the True Gifts of the Season anthology (Harlequin 2012).
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“How to turn your design book into a novel,” Lani Longshore’s article coauthored with Ann Anastasio, was published in the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) Journal Spring/Summer edition.
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Triple congratulations to Hector Timourian for his poem “The King”; a short story, “Coffee Brewing Trouble”; and a memoir, “The Legend of Enrique Santos” published in the Livermore Adult Education Creative Writing Group anthology.
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Stacey Gustafson‘s short story, “Hair Gone Wild”
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I found a book titled 100 Words Almost Everyone Mixes Up or Mangles (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, from the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries). Having a fondness for trivia, I bought the book. The words listed were all familiar to me. I was about to congratulate myself on paying attention in school when I reached
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More than a dozen CWC Tri-Valley Branch members have taken the annual National Novel in a Month (NaNoWriMo) challenge. Cooking, house cleaning and yard work will be ignored. Laundry bins overflow. The trash begs to be taken out. Our fingers fly over computer keyboards toward a common goal—50,000 words by November 30. For the past
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I bragged about writing in the dark-waking up at night and scribbling a few notes without turning on the light. Then I thought about other images that phrase conjures. Pushing myself through the writers block of the late afternoon, I struggle for the perfect ending to my story. The final paragraphs shimmer in my imagination,
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NaNoWriMo begins on November 1st (one minute after midnight on Halloween). It’s a great personal challenge to write a 50,000-word novel by November 30. Last year, I wrote the second in a trilogy and found an ending to my first storyline. It’s easy to sign up and you can connect with others and watch their progress
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Geri Spieler is an internet research guru. She is the author of Taking Aim at the President: The Remarkable Story of the Woman who Shot Gerald Ford. This book has won four awards including the Smart-Writ Best Non-fiction award at the 2010 Mensa Annual Conference. She has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los
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