Used sparingly, the semicolon emphasizes your crucial contrasts; used recklessly, it merely clutters your page. ~ Sheridan Baker Fri Sep 24 22:17:15 +0000 2010
At the Den: the only time you'll catch me mentioning severed heads: http://bit.ly/bXbPq2 Thu Sep 30 02:03:37 +0000 2010
@Ndege - I was prepared to be quite disgusted, but it's actually nice. #FoodChat Thu Sep 30 01:58:57 +0000 2010
@Ndege - Dijon mustard! (Have you ever had curry mayo? It's the latest thing here) Thu Sep 30 01:55:59 +0000 2010
@Ndege - I'd sooner be a wiener than a hot dog bun! Thu Sep 30 01:53:41 +0000 2010
Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. ~ Kurt Vonnegut Thu Sep 30 01:51:04 +0000 2010
@Ndege - Yes, I am a waxer. Also a waner. Thu Sep 30 01:50:25 +0000 2010
At the Den: I wax philosophical about comedy and horror -- http://bit.ly/bXbPq2 Thu Sep 30 01:48:08 +0000 2010
@Ndege - Yeah, I know. Send it along =) Thu Sep 30 01:46:14 +0000 2010
Okay: first soup, then more writing. #Writers #Lead #QuiteALife Thu Sep 30 01:45:43 +0000 2010
@Ndege - I generally like to read the stories before I pub them, just to know beforehand what I'm getting into. Also for intro purposes. Thu Sep 30 01:43:26 +0000 2010
@Ndege - If indeed 'Twistedness' is even a word. Thu Sep 30 01:39:20 +0000 2010
@Ndege - I have no less than 4 horror stories in the works. You'll love the twistedness of them .... Thu Sep 30 01:38:47 +0000 2010
@standMoses - Thanks for the RT =) Thu Sep 30 01:38:08 +0000 2010
@Ndege - Ha ha, that "P" word. Thu Sep 30 01:36:53 +0000 2010
@Ndege - That's a self-portrait of me at the Den, by the way. I've lost a bit of weight lately. Thu Sep 30 01:36:24 +0000 2010
@Ndege - I agree, but I'm not tweeting that word: spam is about, and we don't get along =P Thu Sep 30 01:35:18 +0000 2010
@Ndege - Yes, comedy, horror, and CHECKS are the hardest things to write ... Thu Sep 30 01:33:55 +0000 2010
#WW @Ndege @LaynaPimentel - Thank you for the RT's ... very kind of you =) Thu Sep 30 01:33:03 +0000 2010
At the Den - Comedy and Horror, the hardest things to write: http://bit.ly/bXbPq2 Thu Sep 30 01:31:38 +0000 2010
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write. ~ Elie Wiesel Thu Sep 30 01:29:17 +0000 2010
I'd say I don't like the new twitter but .... what new twitter?? #NoSignOfit Thu Sep 30 01:28:39 +0000 2010
At the Den: Oh the Horror ... http://bit.ly/bXbPq2 Thu Sep 30 01:20:07 +0000 2010
@JosephLane - Yeah, she did. (thanks Momma!) Thu Sep 30 00:50:01 +0000 2010
@JosephLane - I'm a Sow? LOL (you rock) Thu Sep 30 00:40:41 +0000 2010
The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart - Goldberg Thu Sep 30 00:34:21 +0000 2010
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. - Anatole France Thu Sep 30 00:23:13 +0000 2010
@JosephLane - You guys are always there to cheer me up and be supportive. That's deserved =) Thu Sep 30 00:10:55 +0000 2010
#WW and thanks to @DocumentDriven and @JenCannPro (The latter being a new follower/followee =) Thu Sep 30 00:09:34 +0000 2010
☞Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow. ~ Gerald Vaughan ☜ Thu Sep 30 00:05:18 +0000 2010
The Campfire is Open -- Got a creepy story? Submit! http://thecampfirepages.blogspot.com/ ~ Thu Sep 30 00:00:09 +0000 2010
@10MinuteWriter - Hey! That's perfectly fine ... we all need a good Veg. =) Wed Sep 29 23:59:01 +0000 2010
The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life. — Zadie Smith Wed Sep 29 23:58:10 +0000 2010
@sabluvs2write - Am I a Beta? #Hints Wed Sep 29 23:57:38 +0000 2010
#WW to my #ShutUpAndWrite buddies @10MinuteWriter and @LaynaPimentel Wed Sep 29 23:55:08 +0000 2010
My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it. - Ernest Hemingway Wed Sep 29 23:45:49 +0000 2010
#WW thanks to @ggSpirit, @VariantVal, @JosephMulak, @JosephLane Wed Sep 29 23:45:04 +0000 2010
#WW thank to @DanMcNeil888 =) Wed Sep 29 23:43:49 +0000 2010
#WW to @LiteraryNobody RT: The Anatomy of a Blog: Understanding Its Parts http://bit.ly/cXs9R4 Wed Sep 29 23:43:22 +0000 2010
Good evening Twitter. How are you? Wed Sep 29 23:39:04 +0000 2010
~ The Campfire Halloween Special: Got a creepy story? Submit! http://thecampfirepages.blogspot.com/ ~ Wed Sep 29 19:05:12 +0000 2010
The Campfire Halloween Special: Got a creepy story? Submit! http://thecampfirepages.blogspot.com/ Wed Sep 29 07:43:54 +0000 2010
@PeevishPenman @WendySparrow -- Shhh.. Wed Sep 29 07:42:30 +0000 2010
Hey, I just noticed that I only need 996376 more followers to hit a million. Help a guy out?? Tue Sep 28 18:54:53 +0000 2010
@ShadyMutton - Nice pic! Nice boots! Tue Sep 28 18:52:18 +0000 2010
@cynditefft - I'm 896! #Special =) Tue Sep 28 18:50:10 +0000 2010
@ShadyMutton - Now I find that hard to believe! #Twiggy Tue Sep 28 18:43:29 +0000 2010
@ASBoudreau - It must be one a them conspiracy-type dealies. A-yup! Tue Sep 28 18:39:19 +0000 2010
I hear #newtwitter, but I not see. #WeFearChange Tue Sep 28 18:36:53 +0000 2010
@ShadyMutton - That's some awesome 'Farrah' hair you had .. sigh .. if only I were 30 years younger, and had a time machine! Tue Sep 28 18:35:28 +0000 2010
@ShadyMutton - You were and are still beautiful =) Tue Sep 28 18:28:47 +0000 2010
Hey! No hedging! Write a scary tale for the Campfire Halloween Special: http://thecampfirepages.blogspot.com/ Tue Sep 28 18:28:16 +0000 2010
@ShadyMutton - Shady, your avatar, is that you??? Tue Sep 28 18:26:00 +0000 2010
Maybe they'll forget about me and I'll have the old Twitter all to myself? #newtwitter #oldtwitter #itsallthesame Tue Sep 28 18:24:43 +0000 2010
At the Den -- More Writing Quotes too Fat for Twitter: http://bit.ly/dyTlGa Tue Sep 28 18:22:34 +0000 2010
The Campfire Halloween Special: Got a creepy story? Submit! http://thecampfirepages.blogspot.com/ Tue Sep 28 07:59:15 +0000 2010
... At the Den -- More Writing Quotes too Fat for Twitter: http://bit.ly/dyTlGa Tue Sep 28 07:56:11 +0000 2010
Goodnight friends and fellow scribes Zzz Tue Sep 28 03:40:34 +0000 2010
❝A writer spends his life being his own psychiatrist.❞ ༺༻ Charles Beaumont Tue Sep 28 03:33:03 +0000 2010
At the Den -- More Writing Quotes too Fat for Twitter: http://bit.ly/dyTlGa Tue Sep 28 03:28:17 +0000 2010
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. ~ Robert Frost Tue Sep 28 03:05:32 +0000 2010
Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write. ~Sir Philip Sidney Tue Sep 28 02:59:51 +0000 2010
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful. ~ Gustave Flaubert Tue Sep 28 02:52:16 +0000 2010
@ShadyMutton - I don't scare that easy! (Yes I do) Tue Sep 28 02:51:41 +0000 2010
Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer. ~ Julien Green Tue Sep 28 02:46:30 +0000 2010
Goodbye Gloria Stewart -- http://exm.nr/cGWhpP #RIP Tue Sep 28 02:19:16 +0000 2010
Suspect all your favorite sentences. ~ Kenneth Atchity Tue Sep 28 02:15:34 +0000 2010
@hkwong - Most of the submissions were rather ... disturbingly spooky LOL Tue Sep 28 02:10:55 +0000 2010
@hkwong - Well, I have some stories archived from last year, take a peek: http://thecampfirepages.blogspot.com/p/halloween-stories.html Tue Sep 28 02:10:15 +0000 2010
Caress the detail, the divine detail. ~ Vladimir Nabokov Tue Sep 28 02:08:32 +0000 2010
You two are very nice -- @SchuggaJoy, @ficwriter, thanks for the RT's ... Tue Sep 28 02:07:42 +0000 2010
@hkwong - It's early yet, but so far I have 4 or 5 people interested. What do you mean by 'overboard'? Tue Sep 28 02:06:36 +0000 2010
The Campfire Halloween Special: Got a creepy story? Submit! http://thecampfirepages.blogspot.com/ Tue Sep 28 02:02:34 +0000 2010
The writer's duty is to keep on writing. ~ William Styron #ShutUpAndWrite Tue Sep 28 01:59:33 +0000 2010
I'm sitting here writing and 'Rhapsody in Blue' just came on the radio. #whenInDoubtGoGershwin Tue Sep 28 01:57:50 +0000 2010
Whether or not you write well, write bravely. ~ Bill Stout Tue Sep 28 01:41:40 +0000 2010
@BrandonLayng - It's always good to be supported! #Thanks #SupportTheLittleGuy Tue Sep 28 01:39:30 +0000 2010
@sabluvs2write - I'm an Overseer. Whatever that is! ~ http://twit-rank.com/ Tue Sep 28 01:36:29 +0000 2010
Every idea is an incitement; eloquence may set fire to reason. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Tue Sep 28 01:04:24 +0000 2010
I'm off to work on my Campfire story. If you experience any literary emergencies, just Tweet me. #Campfire #ShutUpAndWrite Tue Sep 28 00:31:33 +0000 2010
An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture. ~ Anon Tue Sep 28 00:27:05 +0000 2010
@SPCWriter -It's a refuge for me; it's the only place I can talk intellectually about literature and arts and people don't look at me funny. Tue Sep 28 00:24:14 +0000 2010
@JosephMulak - Yeeagh! (Don't scare me like that!) Tue Sep 28 00:20:50 +0000 2010
@SPCWriter - Twitter is a great motivator though. A lot of writers, a lot of inspiration ... Tue Sep 28 00:20:18 +0000 2010
Keep in mind that the person to write for is yourself. Tell the story that you most desperately want to read. ~ Susan Isaacs Tue Sep 28 00:18:12 +0000 2010
@SPCWriter - That's a good thing. I love Twitter, but the less I tweet and the more I write the better it is. Tue Sep 28 00:17:37 +0000 2010
@JosephMulak - Oh, all of that is great. We published all of those genres last year. As long as it's scary .... Tue Sep 28 00:15:58 +0000 2010
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. ~ Ursula K. LeGuin Tue Sep 28 00:15:01 +0000 2010
@SPCWriter - Awesome ... you're always welcome, by the way. #TheCampfire Tue Sep 28 00:12:58 +0000 2010
@SPCWriter - I've been good. I have been spending an inordinate amount of time writing since I started my #ShutUpAndWrite hashtag. Tue Sep 28 00:11:50 +0000 2010
@JosephMulak - Thanks Joseph. Are you writing a story? The more the merrier ... or creepier .... Tue Sep 28 00:10:40 +0000 2010
@SPCWriter - Are you writing a story for Halloween? I'm gathering stories for my site, the Campfire - http://thecampfirepages.blogspot.com/ Tue Sep 28 00:09:08 +0000 2010
@SPCWriter - Hullo! (waves back) Tue Sep 28 00:07:37 +0000 2010
@BrandonLayng - I'd like Tom Waits to read my book. Wouldn't that be interesting? Him, or Cookie monster. Tue Sep 28 00:07:11 +0000 2010 Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home - John Campbell #ShutUpAndWrite Tue Sep 28 00:04:40 +0000 2010
The Campfire Halloween Special: Got a creepy story? Submit! http://thecampfirepages.blogspot.com/ Tue Sep 28 00:02:24 +0000 2010
The more particular, the more specific you are, the more universal you are. - Nancy Hale Tue Sep 28 00:00:19 +0000 2010
@BrandonLayng - I think I'm terrified of someday having to read my own work. Can't I just pay Morgan Freeman? Mon Sep 27 23:59:03 +0000 2010
@StoryADayMay - I learned all my British from Spike Milligan, which is not the greatest thing in the world when you stop to think about it. Mon Sep 27 23:57:25 +0000 2010
@StoryADayMay - Ah, see, it's one thing to write it, but using it in a conversation makes one sound like a boob of some kind. Mon Sep 27 23:56:13 +0000 2010
Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind. - Joyce Carol Oates Mon Sep 27 23:53:52 +0000 2010
@TracyClark_TLC - I know you! You're that soon to be famous author-lady .... Mon Sep 27 23:53:15 +0000 2010
@StoryADayMay - Cor! Blimey! Really? I guess any word is a good word .... Mon Sep 27 23:52:36 +0000 2010
"Indefatigable" -- Who would ever use that word? Mon Sep 27 23:50:31 +0000 2010
Just popped in -- now I have to go Zz for a while. See you on the other side? Mon Sep 27 19:29:27 +0000 2010
@JosephMulak - Thanks for all the RT's Joseph ... Mon Sep 27 19:27:58 +0000 2010
@Ndege - You must have the Campfire mixed up with Hustler Magazine. =) Mon Sep 27 19:27:20 +0000 2010
Got a creepy story? The Campfire Halloween Special is on: http://thecampfirepages.blogspot.com/ Mon Sep 27 19:23:32 +0000 2010
~ Submit! The Campfire Halloween Special -- got a creepy story? http://thecampfirepages.blogspot.com/ Mon Sep 27 07:45:02 +0000 2010
Submit! The Campfire Halloween Special -- got a creepy story? http://thecampfirepages.blogspot.com/ Mon Sep 27 04:02:10 +0000 2010
My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? ~ Theodor Geisel Mon Sep 27 02:33:20 +0000 2010
~ Submit! The Campfire needs Halloween stories: http://thecampfirepages.blogspot.com/ Mon Sep 27 02:30:59 +0000 2010
@SamTecle - I find myself quoting things to friends. Makes me sound uber-intelligent! LOL Mon Sep 27 02:28:55 +0000 2010
I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells ~ Theodor Geisel Mon Sep 27 02:27:14 +0000 2010
Interesting: I have amassed over 100 pages of quotes in the past year and a half. Mon Sep 27 02:25:58 +0000 2010
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull. ༺༻ Rod Serling Mon Sep 27 02:20:38 +0000 2010
༺༻ When you write yourself into a corner, go up the wall ༺༻ Mon Sep 27 02:16:18 +0000 2010 Once you compromise your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity. - Biloxi Blues Mon Sep 27 02:11:26 +0000 2010
@ggSpirit - Sometimes you have to be brave in this business of writing -- put it out there and catch the hell. Mon Sep 27 02:10:28 +0000 2010
Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. — Virginia Woolf Mon Sep 27 02:04:04 +0000 2010
No Wedding No Womb, by @ggSpirit -- http://ggspiritwrites.blogspot.com/ (great article) Mon Sep 27 01:21:38 +0000 2010
Are you excavating a subterranean channel?" asked the scholar. "No sir," replied the farmer. "I am only digging a ditch." - Anon Mon Sep 27 01:02:45 +0000 2010
What is reading but silent conversation? — Walter Savage Landor Mon Sep 27 01:01:11 +0000 2010
@Belle_Auteur - I suppose I'll have to call the IP tomorrow. Should I yell and scream, or be cool and collected? Mon Sep 27 01:00:05 +0000 2010
@LaynaPimentel - You are awesome! #FF #WW #ShutUpAndWrite #amwriting Mon Sep 27 00:43:50 +0000 2010
@Belle_Auteur - It seems the replies are working, I just can't navigate to the home page without losing connection. So I'm stuck at Mentions Mon Sep 27 00:43:02 +0000 2010
@daryldarko - Every book I've ever lent out has disappeared into the ether; I haven't seen my John Densmore 'Doors' book in 10 years ... Mon Sep 27 00:41:53 +0000 2010
@Belle_Auteur - I'm having a hard time navigating between pages; this internet has been crawly-slow ... Mon Sep 27 00:38:17 +0000 2010
@LaynaPimentel - Well, we'd love to have you, but I understand. Maybe I can re-post the last one you submitted ...=) Mon Sep 27 00:36:51 +0000 2010
Thanks for all the RT's -- I can hardly access my mentions page y'all! Internet still in goofy stage ... Mon Sep 27 00:34:33 +0000 2010
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. ~ Stephen Leacock Mon Sep 27 00:32:25 +0000 2010
In case you missed it: You Might Be Addicted to Writing if ... http://bit.ly/bhk3ti Mon Sep 27 00:31:10 +0000 2010
@LaynaPimentel - I'm still in the brainstorming stage. Are you entering the WD contest too? Or are you too busy with other stuff? Mon Sep 27 00:27:03 +0000 2010
I know every book of mine by its smell, I just put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things ༺༻ George Gissing Mon Sep 27 00:24:43 +0000 2010
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ༺༻ Chinese Proverb (Yup) Mon Sep 27 00:20:56 +0000 2010
@LaynaPimentel - Yup, working on a Campfire story. I want to get a head start; you guys provide a lot of competition =) Mon Sep 27 00:20:17 +0000 2010
@Ltstrythisagain -- And that's where I end up spending MY grocery money =) Mon Sep 27 00:17:48 +0000 2010
@Ltstrythisagain - There's this little book store up near the Junction where the books are piled willy-nilly, like an episode of Hoarders .. Mon Sep 27 00:17:19 +0000 2010
Submit! The Campfire needs Halloween stories: http://thecampfirepages.blogspot.com/ Mon Sep 27 00:14:16 +0000 2010
Books are embalmed minds. ༺༻ Bovee Mon Sep 27 00:12:04 +0000 2010
@Ltstrythisagain - Oh, to answer your question from 6 hours ago: yeah, it's a little chilly up here LOL Mon Sep 27 00:10:47 +0000 2010
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. ༺༻ Augustine Birrell Mon Sep 27 00:08:35 +0000 2010 @LaynaPimentel - Well, my Internet has been down all day, so I moped for a while, then I started writing, so it's all good =) Mon Sep 27 00:08:09 +0000 2010
@Ltstrythisagain - Same. Can't find any Edward Abbey, all out of print and none in the libraries. Mon Sep 27 00:07:01 +0000 2010
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. ~ Henry Miller Mon Sep 27 00:04:14 +0000 2010
@LaynaPimentel - Good evening madame ... how are you? Mon Sep 27 00:03:45 +0000 2010
He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~ Arabic Proverb Mon Sep 27 00:03:04 +0000 2010
Be obscure clearly. — E. B. White Mon Sep 27 00:01:15 +0000 2010
My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing. — Anon Sun Sep 26 23:59:28 +0000 2010
Well, using this laptop has become rather painful -- Time for an upgrade. Hullo everyone! Sun Sep 26 18:29:23 +0000 2010
I'm off again to go write. #ShutUpAndWrite #ShortStorySunday Sun Sep 26 17:49:32 +0000 2010
The Campfire needs Halloween stories: http://thecampfirepages.blogspot.com/ /via @TheWritersDen Sun Sep 26 17:46:41 +0000 2010
“@TheWritersDen: The Campfire is open and we need Halloween stories -- got one? http://thecampfirepages.blogspot.com/” Sun Sep 26 17:43:24 +0000 2010
Since I can't Tweet, I'll write instead ... #ShortStorySunday Sun Sep 26 17:37:36 +0000 2010
Laptop still out of commission. Can't Tweet! Sun Sep 26 17:33:59 +0000 2010
De-fragging a computer is slow business. I could have flown to Paris by now! Sun Sep 26 15:06:18 +0000 2010
@JosephLane - Ah grilled cheese sammiches -- don't ferget the Catsup! Sun Sep 26 15:03:15 +0000 2010
Today is #ShortStorySunday for me. That's the day I just sit at the computer and write a random story =) Sun Sep 26 14:56:33 +0000 2010
@VariantVal - I hear you're feeling better. Those Twitter healing vibes really work ~~~ Sun Sep 26 14:50:21 +0000 2010
@JosephLane - That's great man! Are you unwinding, relaxing, taking it easy, taking a load off? Sun Sep 26 14:48:56 +0000 2010
@ggSpirit - I'd have to shorten it for a license plate: wouldn't fit. #ShutUpAndWrite Sun Sep 26 14:47:35 +0000 2010
The Campfire is open and we need Halloween stories -- got one? http://thecampfirepages.blogspot.com/ Sun Sep 26 14:45:38 +0000 2010
@JosephLane - Actually .... yeah! Sorta. As peachy as it can be, I suppose. Sun Sep 26 14:40:41 +0000 2010
@ggSpirit - Should I legally change my name to #ShutUpAndWrite? Sun Sep 26 14:38:33 +0000 2010
Morning, morning, morning -- @ggSpirit, @VariantVal, @JosephLane Sun Sep 26 14:37:48 +0000 2010
Need coffee and toast though ... still groggy LOL Sun Sep 26 14:36:00 +0000 2010 Good morning world ... nice day here in Toronto =) Sun Sep 26 14:35:08 +0000 2010
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. — J.R.R. Tolkien Sun Sep 26 08:23:26 +0000 2010
I don't know about you, but I intend on writing a strongly worded letter to the White Star Line about all of this. - Titanic Sun Sep 26 08:22:02 +0000 2010
Music to drown by. Now I know I'm in first class - Titanic Sun Sep 26 08:20:16 +0000 2010
You can only come to the morning through the shadows. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien Sun Sep 26 08:17:14 +0000 2010
Little by little, one travels far. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien Sun Sep 26 08:16:42 +0000 2010
Hm. My Internet came back to life at 4 AM; now I'll be online till the sun comes up ...sigh. Sun Sep 26 08:15:46 +0000 2010
I will not walk backward in life. — J.R.R. Tolkien Sun Sep 26 08:12:13 +0000 2010
Tweeting by iPhone ... Really sucks. Sun Sep 26 02:39:19 +0000 2010
Haven't been able to access Twitter all day; Internet down. Ugh. Sun Sep 26 02:35:46 +0000 2010
Okay, I'm off for dinner and a bit of #ShutUpAndWrite -- Remember, only YOU can prevent typos! #NationalPunctuationDay Fri Sep 24 23:04:57 +0000 2010
The Campfire is Open! Scary Halloween stories needed: http://thecampfirepages.blogspot.com/ Fri Sep 24 23:03:16 +0000 2010
@thejayfaulkner - It's been one year! Can't wait to read yours ... #CampfireHalloween Fri Sep 24 22:54:56 +0000 2010
The Campfire Pages Halloween Special: Got a scary story? Come join the fun --- http://thecampfirepages.blogspot.com/ Fri Sep 24 22:47:46 +0000 2010
@sabluvs2write - No! If you need to start writing it, don't wait for November! Fri Sep 24 22:44:10 +0000 2010
In Honor of National Punctuation Day .... It's Conjunction Junction! -- http://bit.ly/9mpQ5d Fri Sep 24 22:43:33 +0000 2010
@sabluvs2write - Writing through exhaustion is the writer's milieu =) Fri Sep 24 22:38:57 +0000 2010
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. ~ Winston Churchill Fri Sep 24 22:25:13 +0000 2010
@Ndege - You truly rock, sir. God Save the Queen! Fri Sep 24 22:24:55 +0000 2010
Hey @TomCruise - #ICanChangeTheWorld Fri Sep 24 22:23:18 +0000 2010
@Ndege - Bad quotes? Should I stop? Forever? Annoying is it getting? Fri Sep 24 22:22:21 +0000 2010 Used sparingly, the semicolon emphasizes your crucial contrasts; used recklessly, it merely clutters your page. ~ Sheridan Baker Fri Sep 24 22:17:15 +0000 2010
A period is a stop sign. A semicolon is a rolling stop sign; a comma is merely an amber light. ~ Andrew Offutt Fri Sep 24 22:16:46 +0000 2010
@sabluvs2write - Your new novel, what's it about? Fri Sep 24 22:14:59 +0000 2010
For the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid. ~ Poe Fri Sep 24 22:09:26 +0000 2010
@Ndege - On purpose, mind you! Fri Sep 24 22:03:48 +0000 2010
They really have within them deeply within them fundamentally within them the comma nature. ~ Gertrude Stein Fri Sep 24 22:00:17 +0000 2010
They are more powerful more imposing more pretentious than a comma but they are a comma all the same ... Fri Sep 24 21:59:56 +0000 2010
@Ndege - What are you on about?? I'm a stickler for punctuation! Are you saying, I'm not? =) Fri Sep 24 21:58:43 +0000 2010
@sallyroyerderr - It's probably the insignificance of it that seems wrong, or funny ... Fri Sep 24 21:58:09 +0000 2010
@sabluvs2write - No, you should call ME ... wanna hear my new iPhone ring =) Fri Sep 24 21:56:22 +0000 2010
@sabluvs2write -Why? You okay? You should call me. Fri Sep 24 21:55:09 +0000 2010
@sallyroyerderr - It's kind of freeing isn't? It. Fri Sep 24 21:52:36 +0000 2010
@Ndege - Silly boy. Which Tweet was that? Fri Sep 24 21:52:11 +0000 2010
@fidelbistro - Secretly I'm happy that I get to play with the conventions of punctuation due to National Punctuation Day =) Fri Sep 24 21:50:58 +0000 2010
@sallyroyerderr - We ignore; any and? all ... punctuation! for the duration of the, "day" Fri Sep 24 21:49:33 +0000 2010
@Belle_Auteur - Punctuation is important, but it don't need it's own day =) Fri Sep 24 21:44:57 +0000 2010
@LilPeep2U - Like we need a day to remind kids to use a comma, when separating thoughts! Fri Sep 24 21:43:19 +0000 2010
@10MinuteWriter - I'm a minimalist when it comes to punctuation. #AwesomeWeAgree Fri Sep 24 21:42:33 +0000 2010
@Belle_Auteur - I didn't even know it was a celebration! Fri Sep 24 21:40:57 +0000 2010
You have no idea how hard it was to write that last Tweet, let alone read it. Fri Sep 24 21:40:16 +0000 2010
I have, nothing against punctuation but? It's possible, we've gone too far in giving it it's own day wouldn't you, say? Fri Sep 24 21:39:00 +0000 2010
@jaxjacoby - We're at least 8 =) Fri Sep 24 21:37:28 +0000 2010
@jaxjacoby - Grammar Rock Preposition was a good one too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4jIC5HLBdM Fri Sep 24 21:36:51 +0000 2010 In Honor of National Punctuation Day ... It's Conjunction Junction! -- http://bit.ly/9mpQ5d Fri Sep 24 21:23:04 +0000 2010
I must go; my mother showed up for a visit =) Fri Sep 24 18:34:14 +0000 2010
National Punctuation Day; It's only comma sense. #Groan Fri Sep 24 18:28:22 +0000 2010
Oh, do they mean Punctuation as in Punctual? On time? My bad. Fri Sep 24 18:25:21 +0000 2010
I'd really like a National Run-On Sentence day that would be cool Fri Sep 24 18:23:47 +0000 2010
@Ndege - Well, If, thats, the, case ... ,,, #NationalPunctuationDay Fri Sep 24 18:22:54 +0000 2010
Is it really National punctuation day come on gimme a break! Fri Sep 24 18:19:48 +0000 2010
Imagination is only intelligence having fun ~ George Scialabbe (Have a great day all!) Fri Sep 24 07:58:13 +0000 2010
@Ndege - Have to go. Miss talking to you rafiki! I'll swing by Facebook later, when I get home from work. Ta ta and cheerio! Fri Sep 24 07:54:20 +0000 2010
@Ndege - Oh, I have bikes (four) but ... too tired to pedal in the dead of night LOL Fri Sep 24 07:52:53 +0000 2010
An Evening With Ray Bradbury || Video -- http://bit.ly/buwu6B (It's an hour long, but worth it ..) Fri Sep 24 07:52:05 +0000 2010
@Ndege - The streets are lined with trees in this neck of the woods. I see greenery everyday =) No bike, bus. Fri Sep 24 07:51:27 +0000 2010
@Ndege - It's supposed to be warm today -- very summer-like. #ThatOldStrangeCanadianWeather Fri Sep 24 07:48:07 +0000 2010
@Ndege - Yup, off to work. But it's Friday, and the day will go quickly =) Fri Sep 24 07:45:57 +0000 2010
RT @Ndege ~ Taking in the last rays of the sun. Yesterday, Olympic Park, Munich. http://twitpic.com/2reln3 (Loverly as always =) Fri Sep 24 07:40:09 +0000 2010
@ToddAustinHunt @juliabrown - Thanks for the RTs -- #BradburyForever Thu Sep 23 18:52:08 +0000 2010
An Evening With Ray Bradbury || Video -- http://bit.ly/buwu6B (It's an hour long, but worth it ..) Thu Sep 23 03:41:28 +0000 2010
G'nite folks. Take care of each other ... Zz Thu Sep 23 03:34:19 +0000 2010
@Jennifer_MK - I'm working out the details and will probably put it up at my site. I'll let you know =) Thu Sep 23 03:29:56 +0000 2010 So Awesome: An Evening With Ray Bradbury || Video -- http://bit.ly/buwu6B (It's an hour long, but worth it ..) Thu Sep 23 03:12:17 +0000 2010
RT @everywriter ~ On Writing: How To Tell A Story || Mark Twain -- http://bit.ly/8MURuh Thu Sep 23 02:47:36 +0000 2010
Procrastination is opportunity's assassin. ~ Victor Kiam #ShutUpAndWrite Thu Sep 23 02:37:19 +0000 2010
@Jennifer_MK - I'm working on an outline technique right now, called a 'fly sheet' -- mostly to simplify everything ... =) Thu Sep 23 02:32:29 +0000 2010
If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done. ~ Anon #ShutUpAndWrite Thu Sep 23 02:15:47 +0000 2010
Don't get it right, just get it written ~ James Thurber #ShutUpAndwrite Thu Sep 23 02:13:54 +0000 2010
@NADreporter - Mathew, good job on your 911 piece. #Awesome Thu Sep 23 02:11:32 +0000 2010
@raisingthecam - WHoops! #ShutUpAndWrite Thu Sep 23 02:09:51 +0000 2010
RT @raisingthecam ~ I just wrote four crappy paragraphs and yet, I feel good about it. (That's the posi-negative spirit!) Thu Sep 23 02:03:04 +0000 2010
Still no 'new twitter' in sight. Hoax? #ConspiracyTheorist Thu Sep 23 01:56:52 +0000 2010
@TracyClark_TLC - Glad I could be of service #LOL Thu Sep 23 01:55:40 +0000 2010
Little by little, one travels far. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien Thu Sep 23 01:54:31 +0000 2010
There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on. ~ William Blake Thu Sep 23 01:53:33 +0000 2010
@Belle_Auteur - No! I said YOU should have children for that reason ... =) Thu Sep 23 01:48:49 +0000 2010
RT @mikodragonfly ~ I should really get back to writing now and stop being amused by mindless stuff. (Me too) #ShutUpAndWrite Thu Sep 23 01:47:40 +0000 2010
@TracyClark_TLC - Skweeping! Shlizzing! Fobbling! Deedleing! Thu Sep 23 01:46:11 +0000 2010
The stars throw blazing minarets || to cross my path || to light my way #haikuThrowdown Thu Sep 23 01:44:56 +0000 2010
@Belle_Auteur - No, because you have a lot of love to give. Thu Sep 23 01:44:04 +0000 2010
@TracyClark_TLC - I could invent a word for that particular function =) Thu Sep 23 01:42:29 +0000 2010
@Belle_Auteur - That is exactly the reason to have children =) Thu Sep 23 01:37:06 +0000 2010
Sorry; had to do dishes -- illusion destroyed! Thu Sep 23 01:36:38 +0000 2010 @Belle_Auteur - It really is. She loves animals, and she has a lot of love to give. Loving animals keeps her happy =) Thu Sep 23 01:27:59 +0000 2010
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there. ~ Rita Mae Brown Thu Sep 23 01:25:17 +0000 2010
@Belle_Auteur - Thank you so much ... I convinced Clair to get a new pet and move on ... Thu Sep 23 01:24:32 +0000 2010
@Belle_Auteur - And that's awesome news about your speech. Good job! Thu Sep 23 01:22:06 +0000 2010
@Belle_Auteur - I'm good. We miss Jessie a lot, but we're moving on =) Thu Sep 23 01:21:12 +0000 2010
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing -- but in the midst of living. ~ Anais Nin Thu Sep 23 01:19:00 +0000 2010
@Belle_Auteur - I'm good. Busy with work and stuff. How have you been? How's school? Thu Sep 23 01:16:40 +0000 2010
In case you missed it: The Underwood Effect || A short story by some guy named David Hunter -- http://bit.ly/bduurL Thu Sep 23 01:02:57 +0000 2010
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens ~ E. B. White #ShutUpAndWrite Thu Sep 23 00:53:29 +0000 2010
@ggSpirit - It was .... cold! Sleeping in a tent when it's 40F is not fun! But the days were warm =) Thu Sep 23 00:50:19 +0000 2010
I am a drinker with writing problems. ~ Brendan Behan Thu Sep 23 00:40:58 +0000 2010
@ggSpirit - One thing I like about @VariantVal is her enthusiasm for writing =) #WW Thu Sep 23 00:36:09 +0000 2010
@ggSpirit - I'm good. Been working, living and writing =) Thu Sep 23 00:34:37 +0000 2010
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Thu Sep 23 00:32:27 +0000 2010
#WW @ggSpirit - Gigi! How are you? Thu Sep 23 00:28:54 +0000 2010
At the NAD: Hunter S. Thompson || Interview -- http://bit.ly/cULFpV Thu Sep 23 00:28:17 +0000 2010
The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect. ~ Gustave Flaubert Thu Sep 23 00:26:35 +0000 2010
@JosephLane - We're too old to be shocked, I think LOL #BeenThroughItAll Thu Sep 23 00:26:15 +0000 2010
At the Den: J.R.R. Tolkien || BBC Interview -- http://davidhuntershaw.blogspot.com/ Thu Sep 23 00:25:23 +0000 2010
In case you missed it: Elmore Leonard on Writing, + Video: http://bit.ly/cADEVG Thu Sep 23 00:24:08 +0000 2010
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? ~ Steven Wright Thu Sep 23 00:22:14 +0000 2010
@LaynaPimentel - I believe it's chicken and potaters tonight. #HungryHippo Thu Sep 23 00:21:31 +0000 2010
@JosephLane - This may shock you, but I agree. Thu Sep 23 00:20:23 +0000 2010
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. ~ Adlai Stevenson Thu Sep 23 00:17:39 +0000 2010
@LaynaPimentel - Dinner! It's making me happy. Almost time to eat =) Thu Sep 23 00:16:54 +0000 2010
@CrossmanCom - Elements of Style: It's my literary Sherpa =) Thu Sep 23 00:16:16 +0000 2010
I have some good stories yet to tell. ~ Fred Saberhagen Thu Sep 23 00:14:51 +0000 2010
@LaynaPimentel - Hey! Sup? #LeafFansUnite Thu Sep 23 00:14:25 +0000 2010
@JosephLane - It's that abstracted representation of a maple leaf on the jersey, isn't it? It makes you queasy? #GoHabs Thu Sep 23 00:13:43 +0000 2010
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. ~ E. B. White Thu Sep 23 00:09:58 +0000 2010
@JosephLane - Watch the Leafs; they're winning =) Thu Sep 23 00:08:39 +0000 2010
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live. ~ Francoise Sagan Thu Sep 23 00:07:28 +0000 2010
One of these days is none of these days. ~ Henri Tubach #ShutUpAndWrite Thu Sep 23 00:06:59 +0000 2010
Today is your day, your mountain is waiting, so get on your way. ~ Dr. Seuss #ShutUpAndWrite Thu Sep 23 00:06:08 +0000 2010
@marisabirns ~ No animals were harmed in the making of this Tweet. Thu Sep 23 00:01:11 +0000 2010
This Tweet is a dramatization. Do not attempt. Wed Sep 22 23:54:05 +0000 2010
May the hair on your toes never fall out ~ J.R.R. Tolkien Wed Sep 22 01:41:33 +0000 2010
I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size ~ J.R.R. Tolkien Wed Sep 22 01:40:36 +0000 2010
I sit beside the fire and think, of all that I have seen, of meadow flowers and butterflies, In summers that have been ~ Tolkien Wed Sep 22 01:23:32 +0000 2010
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien Wed Sep 22 01:22:01 +0000 2010
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien Wed Sep 22 01:18:22 +0000 2010
... but not yet weary are our feet; still round the corner we may meet ~ Tolkien Wed Sep 22 01:17:32 +0000 2010
Upon the hearth the fire is red; beneath the roof there is a bed ... Wed Sep 22 01:17:14 +0000 2010
@LaynaPimentel - I'll probably send a few stories your way, so you can beta read them for me. But be kind! Wed Sep 22 01:14:43 +0000 2010
@VariantVal - ill? Aw. Sending you some healing tweet vibes ((((((((((HUGS)))))))))) Wed Sep 22 01:13:57 +0000 2010
A day will come at last when I shall take the hidden paths that run west of the moon, east of the sun. ~ Tolkien Wed Sep 22 01:12:54 +0000 2010
@VariantVal - I'm good; it's warm here tonight, so all is well =) Wed Sep 22 01:11:05 +0000 2010
@LaynaPimentel - I'm deciding exactly which story to submit LOL Wed Sep 22 01:10:35 +0000 2010
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