Category: Writing
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Short Story
Prompt: Author writes his own murder before it happens. “Yah, yah, yah.” I drawl to my editor who has been hounding me all month about my new project. He’s been practically down on his knees, begging for even just a chapter to show the publishing team. “I’ll send it to you when its ready, John.”…
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Prompt: It Was A Dark and Stormy Night
Another rendition of the stories we wrote in my high school creative writing class. I think this may have been one of my favorites. The prompt, “It Was A Dark and Stormy Night…” was set upon us on Halloween in 2013. We had just finished up our study of Edgar Allen Poe and we were…
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Letting Go
I recently stumbled across a folder with a bunch of my creative writing assignments from high school. While most are cringe, there were a few that impressed me. Bellow is one titled “Letting Go” and was written as part of our eulogy study. My childhood beagle Sally, passed away from lymphoma a few years before…
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Quality Over Quantity: In Writing
“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca We hear this old phrase often and in regards to a variety of life’s aspects. The most common instance perhaps is pointed at the type of company one keeps, going along with “I’d rather have a few best friends, then a hundred friends I…
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Is Said Dead?
If you are a writer to any capacity, you will have no doubt heard the phrase “said is dead”. This is reference to the boring and repetitiveness of writing a dialogue where every line is literally ‘said’ from one character to the next. In our current day, where time seems to be the most precious…
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Importance of Interpersonal Communication in Veterinary Hospitals
Written: JAnuary 10th, 2023 Content Author: Kacie Fowler Interpersonal communication relates to the veterinary hospital setting in how we interact with clients and co-workers in a manner that supports strong communication. Knowing how to communicate well aids in client compliance, patient care, smoother work flow, and raised work moral. There are our parts of the…
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Openings
We all know that the first lines of a story needs to leave an impact. They need to pull the reader in and make them want to stay, make them want to stick around and see what happens. There is a number of ways that an story can start. A hook can be a fight,…
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Top 10 Study Items I Use Daily
As with most things in life, when you are a student, writer, studier, or similar, you will no doubt find what works best for you. Consider what rhythm you have found in your own studies. The where, when, and how as well as the trial and error of how you found this rhythm. Stationery and…
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Novel Research
Definitely not the type of person to think that I know everything, but the amount of research I’ve done so far for this novel has kind of surprised me. The story I’m writing is set around the late 18th century. It is a fantasy world, but relates to our world for most things. The moon…
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Bit of a funny assignment.
Below is an argumentative essay I wrote in my college-level English comprehension call. There were a few few different topics we could pick from, but they were all compare and contrast two things, then make an argument supporting one of the side. The topic I picked was compare and contrast two villains from movie or…
Everything With Nothing 