In her first year of dedicated writing, Candice wrote whatever came to mind, thinking that was good enough. Her friends said they loved her work, but Candice wasn’t satisfied. She…
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I am a nurse, and sometimes we nurses have to do some unpleasant things. I’ve worked in several different specialties, all the way from the top of your head to…
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With pride, Christine clipped coupons from the newspaper before she went shopping. She checked for the best prices online. She would never be caught paying too much for anything. When…
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Back when the English language had a limited vocabulary, Shakespeare is thought to have created thousands of words. After Robert Heinlein created grok as a Martian word in his novel…
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On April 20, 1999, two teenage boys walked into Columbine High School and randomly shot their classmates. Like most Americans, my husband and I were glued to our television set,…
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Tom already had two pressing deadlines. The odds weren’t good for finishing them before he was sent a book manuscript to edit. He felt like a sailboat moving into a…
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Do you consider yourself a fast or slow thinker? Actually, unless we’ve suffered a brain injury, everybody’s mental processing rate is about the same. Conscious reasoning takes place at forty…
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Suzanne had to decide what perspective she would use in telling her story. She could be the reporter, exercising a God-like position by telling what happened. She began to write:…
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