500 Words (or More) Writing Prompt #25: Wikipedia and You

by Promptly PortlandMay 18, 2010
500 Words (or More) Writing Prompt #25: Wikipedia and You

Week after week, Promptly Portland brings us new ways to get or keep moving on our writing journey. Today, Promptly explores how three ideas from Wikipedia can be turned into writing prompts.

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A New Writing in Five Video–Paragraphs

by Kendra BonnettMay 17, 2010
A New Writing in Five Video–Paragraphs

There is an art to writing structure, and understanding the structure of the common paragraph is an excellent place to start. You’ll find Part I of our Writing in Five Video on the Paragraph, based on Sheridan Baker’s The Practical Stylist.

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April Memoir Contest Winners Announced; First Place Story Published

by Matilda ButlerMay 13, 2010
April Memoir Contest Winners Announced; First Place Story Published

April Memoir Contest winners are announced — first place winner and 6 honorable mentions. We also include the winning entry. Be sure to read it and try her recipe. This is a well-written story that we are honored to have received. The honorable mention stories will be published beginning in July. Congratulations to everyone. To those who did not win, and to those who did not enter, please keep writing and consider submitting again in future contests.

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Book Review: Kay Redfield Jamison’s Nothing Was the Same, Reviewed by Lanie Tankard

by Matilda ButlerMay 12, 2010
Book Review: Kay Redfield Jamison’s Nothing Was the Same, Reviewed by Lanie Tankard

Kay Redfield Jamison’s newest memoir, Nothing Was the Same, is reviewed by Lanie Tankard, who shares with us both the strengths of Jamison’s writing skills and her own story. Jamison and Tankard both lost their husbands to lung cancer. In this review of intertwined stories, we see the value of the universal message as others can both relate and gain perspective through what we write.

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500 Words (or More) Writing Prompt #24: Looking for Gratitude

by Promptly PortlandMay 11, 2010
500 Words (or More) Writing Prompt #24: Looking for Gratitude

Promptly Portland returns this week to give us a writing prompt about gratitude. It turned my thoughts in a new way. See if it does the same for you.

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Writing in Five: William Zinsser on Writing Harmoniously

by Matilda ButlerMay 10, 2010
Writing in Five: William Zinsser on Writing Harmoniously

Writing Alchemy: This is the eighth in our Writing in Five series–practical writing tips from published authors. In her video, Matilda Butler returns to William Zinsser’s advice on. This time, she uses his chapter Unity as the inspiration for her discussion about maintaining harmony in your fiction and nonfiction writing.

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More Google Search Stories on Women’s Memoirs

by Kendra BonnettMay 9, 2010
More Google Search Stories on Women’s Memoirs

The Google-YouTube Search Story Video Memoirs continue to come in. Don’t miss your chance to tell your story and possibly win one of our official Rosie the Riveter Legacy bandanas.

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