Tag: writin wombats
member name: Ken C.
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November 04, 2007 01:34 PM EST --
The marketplace has spoken! Dan Brown is the most successful North American novelist of the new millennium. Outside of excellent grammar, short chapters, fast-paced story arcs, anti-religious fervor . . .
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November 27, 2007 08:37 AM EST --
Tom carefully parked the old Toyota on the crest of a hill. The starter did not work, so he needed the incline to compression-start the car. The sky was obscured by woolen blanket of clouds that seemed . . .
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May 16, 2008 08:35 PM EDT --
Okay, I have a question. How many books do you buy that you do not read? What is the percentage? As purveyors (or hopeful purveyors) of books, I think this is an interesting question. In other . . .
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July 18, 2007 07:51 PM EDT --
The Ongoing Wombat Conversation - Episode Nine
The day of reckoning is near. On that day, all Wombats will have lucrative publishing contracts and limousines on call. POD and vanity authors . . .
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August 25, 2007 03:27 PM EDT --
Penelope Lake smiled sweetly, a bad sign of her mood. Sitting at the head of a walnut conference table, she watched the other ladies enter the room in groups of two or three. She sampled the snippets . . .
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January 31, 2008 10:13 AM EST --
I don't know why we'd wait until a specific month and specific date to focus on love, but the ice has formed and the cold rain is falling, so why not? I'm not going to bore you with commentary . . .
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February 14, 2008 08:04 PM EST --
I'll post the winners here so everyone can refresh quickly.
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February 29, 2008 03:52 PM EST --
I did it. You can do it too. I am no business expert. I do not know the optimum way of doing things. I don't care. I used this on-the-cheap method to create my company. If there are better methods, . . .
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June 04, 2008 09:19 PM EDT --
How important are images to you? Because I'm a knucklehead, I love setting up photo sessions. They are a form of composition, are they not?
Anyway, for my novels, I take lots of reference . . .
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November 28, 2007 06:01 PM EST --
I don't know about you, but I'm tired of the situational ethics and dishonesty we face every day. Online, in the wild world of the Internet, things are even worse. So, let's take a stand. Let's . . .
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January 22, 2008 09:58 PM EST --
The ruthless sun assaulted the earth in Mazatlán. Inland, there was no breeze and thus, no respite. Fred, the senior Pastor . . .
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March 10, 2008 11:22 PM EDT --
We have four chapters that need authors:
The craft of writing effective query letters
Adverbs, adjectives and modifiers, where is the line between enough and too much?
The Metaphoric . . .
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March 19, 2008 06:35 AM EDT --
Fortunately, I'm okay with my complete absurdity as a human being. When I read that Edmond Rostand was an influence on Ayn Rand, I knew it was this speech, from Cyrano De Bergerac, that . . .
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August 09, 2008 07:16 PM EDT --
Charles Willeford is a big influence on my work, particularly my early novels like Alligator Alley and Steel Waters. What made him . . .
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September 21, 2008 11:08 AM EDT --
With breathless anticipation, we await the long-delayed new Dan Brown novel called The Solomon Key. While we wait for him to perfect this masterpiece, what should we Writin' Wombats do to amuse ourselves? . . .
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September 21, 2008 10:54 PM EDT --
Associate Professor Jason Wilder stood at the bar lost in thought. His craggy good looks, angular six foot 4 inch frame, and shock of thick black hair, made him the target of the admiring gazes of several . . .
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September 21, 2008 10:58 PM EDT --
LOUVRE MUSEUM, PARIS
10:46 P.M.
Hey, I gotta tell you, a couple bottles of good Chardonnay, and you would stagger also. Specially if you were my age, which happens to be 73. Course, I don't look . . .
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September 22, 2008 01:18 PM EDT --
"Come Richter, we've so many sights to show you," promised the voices.
The burglar hadn't the will to run, destined to follow the specter's lullaby to the end, to the top of . . .
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September 22, 2008 10:04 PM EDT --
It was a dark and not so stormy night. The fetid air lay dank and heavy over the streetscape. Streetlights ebbed with the gathering gloom. Were they somehow aware of the evil this night would bring?
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September 23, 2008 06:31 PM EDT --
Cambridge
"We have found the secret of life!" Frankie emphatically announced to the large-bellied bartender, who stood polishing a glass with a brightly colored, red cloth imported from India. . . .
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