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  Just published! Kill Me Now Methods of Suicide because you can't die until you are published, everybody knows that. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B011A4Z98W Cheers HM   cross ref https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5623507#allposts  

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'Shark Lady' Eugenie Clark, Famed Marine Biologist, Has Died

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Putting a New Twist on an Old Story There are a lot of ways to play this writing game but today we’re going to focus on protagonists. (Never fear, we’ll play variations later, too.) Four Steps for Making Old Stories New Again Step One: Choose a Classic Story By “classic story” I mean an established story that resonates in the culture in which you find yourself. For most of us in

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http://www.brainpickings.org/ How dreadful boredom is – how dreadfully boring; I know no stronger expression

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What is love? It's a hard term to define in so far as it has a very wide application. I can love jogging. I can love a book, a movie. I can love escalopes. I can love my wife. (Laughter) But there's a great difference between an escalope and my wife, for instance. That is, if I value the escalope, the escalope, on the other hand, it doesn't value me back. Whereas my wife, she calls me the

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A Vancouver School Board Just Changed The English Pronouns We All Know Christina Sterbenz Jun. 19, 2014, 12:59 PM After four rowdy rounds of voting, the Vancouver School Board approved replacing all English language pronouns with a new string of newly-created "gender-neutral" pronouns Monday: "xe," "xem," and "xyr," the Vancouver Sun reports. Henceforth, all district materials, as well

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The Sneaky Trick Behind the Explosive Growth of the Kardashian Game Posted: 08/12/2014 4:11 pm EDT Updated: 40 minutes ago Print Article

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Princesses Unite!My niece, then seven, decided to start a secret club, and whispered an invitation to me, her evil aunt.“I’m starting a secret club”“What?”“I’m starting a secret club”“What is it?”“The princess club.”So , naturally I had to research the ramifications of this since I believe my niece to be a natural born leader and frankly, I smelled money. I don’t know what the big secret was

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Read Amy Schumer’s Powerful Speech About Confidence By Jennifer Vineyard Gabourey Sidibe wasn't the only person giving an intense, inspirational speech last night at the&nbsp;Gloria Awards and Gala, hosted by the Ms. Foundation for Women. Amy Schumer gave one too, covering regrettable sexual encounters, crises of confidence, body-image issues, Sam Cooke,

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The Scoggins Report: October 2013 Pitch Market Scorecard October 17, 2013 6:37 am Jason Scoggins 0 Comments Rating: 0 (from 0 votes) The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins &amp; Landon Rohwedder October 14, 2013&nbsp; October 2013 Pitch Market Scorecard A couple of weeks ago in the September Pitch Roundup, we noted there had been three&nbsp; months in a row of as-good-or-better

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Part 1: General Overview You have an idea for a short film. Or, you may be currently stalled on the story in progress for a short film that should be underway. This class will cover the soup to nuts overview of the questions you need to ask yourself as a filmmaker to ensure the idea for your short film is worthwhile, and the essential steps you need to take to move into the

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What is the Greatest Irish invention ever? Every literate person in the western world and beyond uses it every day! In fact you are using this invention to read this piece now? What is it? It is the space between words! That's right, ancient texts were written without spaces. However, Ireland was never part of the Roman empire and the Latin language was foreign. Accordingly when Latin

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Chocolate Spell for Attracting Wealth This spell will attract a steady stream of money into your life. You will need a green candle, dark chocolate pieces (must be dark chocolate for wealth spells, milk chocolate is for nurturing and friendship), a cinnamon stick, a clove, milk, a cauldron (or pot) and a wooden spoon. Place the candle near your stove and light it. Put

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William Penn recommends an end to your speech July 29, 2013 | Presentations, Verbal communication The two most important parts of our speech are the start and finish. But most of us spend a lot more time concentrating on how to kick-off our

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How The Office was invented Many people might think of office-bound life as a modern phenomenon, but there's a long history of people chained to their desks, explains Lucy Kellaway. In medieval London the old St Paul's Cathedral used to dwarf everything around it. Now it is dwarfed - by

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BuzzFeed &nbsp; LOL Win OMG Cute Obsessed Fail WTF? What's Hot NEWS ENTERTAINMENT LIFE MORE New!BuzzFeed for iPhone &amp;

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16 Fancy Literary Techniques Explained By&nbsp;Disney Because why waste money on an English degree when you can just watch Disney movies?&nbsp; Adam Moerder

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4 Things Star Trek Can Teach Us About Writing Categories: Craft &amp; Technique, Fun, General, Guest Post, There Are No Rules Blog by the Editors of Writer's Digest, What's New Tags: guest post, Star Trek, Thomas Smith. June 28, 2013 | Zachary Petit | Comments: 6 Add to favorites &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; The following is a guest post by Thomas Smith. Happy Friday. Over the

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The Reduced Shakespeare Company Today is the 400th anniversary of the original Globe burning down. The fire was started when a piece of wadding fired from a cannon, during a performance of Henry VIII ended up in the thatched roof. The whole building burnt to the ground ‘all in less than two hours the people having enough to do to save themselves’ . Miraculously no-one was injured,

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I love TV and never quite broke the habit of watching every day. So, I realized, I've become one of those Americanos who watches TV almost all the time.

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Maya Fiennes Did you know that there are 84 reflex points around the mouth that are activated by the vibrations of chanting?? The reflex points trigger --&gt; the hypothalamus (a gland in the brain responsible for controlling important metabolic, hormonal, and behavioral processes). This --&gt; releases endorphins ...See More All of Maya's CDs - Mayaspace, Mood Mantras and

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10 Secrets to Writing Success&nbsp; Pen Densham, co-founder of Trilogy Entertainment Group, considers himself a triple-hyphenate: a writer-producer- &nbsp;director. He and his partner John Watson have been Oscar Nominated twice, have produced 15 features and over 300 hours of television. He writes for both TV and feature films and is personally responsible for reviving 'The Outer

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Shakespeare called grain hoarder, tax dodger, money lender and ruthless businessman of Stratford-upon-Avon ‘Over a 15-year period he purchased and stored grain, malt and barley for resale at inflated prices to his neighbors and local tradesmen,’ write researchers from Aberystwyth University in Wales.

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