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FreeWrite: Betty Likes to Break

Posted by stacy on July 11th, 2008 filed in FreeWrite!

sooo,
Now that my first write-a-thon story is drafted, I wanted to cleanse my palette a little before moving on to the next one. Here’s another free-write exercise. 400 words from the pov of a character put in a new situation via a witness protection program.
Betty did bombs. Explosives. Fucking grenades. [...]

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FreeWrite: Undiscovered Talent

Posted by stacy on June 19th, 2008 filed in FreeWrite!

My goal here was to simply write 500 or so words about an incident between a teacher and a student in which the teacher learns something.  Have at it:
 “It’s a long way, Mr. Davis.”  Meep squinted, peering across the gorge.  The west wind fluttered against his eyelids, peeling them back.

“It’s a puddle.” I elbowed him [...]

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So, ya. About that.

Posted by stacy on June 18th, 2008 filed in FreeWrite!, Writing

 Have been putting off things and stuff.  Procrastination is one of my life’s passions, which is kind of torturous, because at the same time, I have no patience. 
Anyway, The whole working for myself thing is going well, but I’m still having trouble with the whole writing for myself thing.  I promised myself I would do [...]

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Manticore Vs. The Fresh Market

Posted by stacy on October 14th, 2007 filed in FreeWrite!

When the lights went out, Kimbo knew where to run. For all his faults, for all his hypocrisy and poorly-clipped ties, he understood the anatomy of a good deed.
This one just happened to have particularly strong jaws.
Wheezing across the grocery store’s squeaking tiles, through the throngs of blindly groping hands, the blasting [...]

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sunday night sassafras

Posted by stacy on August 26th, 2007 filed in FreeWrite!, Life

Hallo. T’is my first anniversary today so have been celebrating accordingly. i.e. consuming wine and prime rib. Yay Keg! Dan gave me a great book this morning titled “the 3am Epiphany” basically it’s a book of writing exercises – not ideas that are meant to be turned into longer [...]

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