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Posts tagged Story-telling
WriteSpa #77 – A Sense of Time
Remember that Twilight Zone episode when the annoying Patrick McNulty is fired for putting dopey suggestions in the office suggestion box? He goes to a bar, where people begin to leave, irritated by his personality. He buys a drink for a drunk, and in return the drunk gives him a stopwatch. It’s an odd gift, but even odder is the fact that th [...]
WriteSpa #55 – Golden Rabbits, ...
WriteSpa – An Oasis for Writers
February 2 is a turning point. The new moon falls halfway between the winter solstice and spring equinox. In Celtic history this festival was known as Imbolc; the Christians changed it to Candlemas, and the Irish celebrate it as St. Brigid’s Day. Imbolc signifies pregnancy and spring, and is honore [...]
WriteSpa #46 – Great Dialog (pa...
WriteSpa – An Oasis for Writers
We talk most of the time – except for when we’re not. The gift of language is part of our existence. We communicate with words far more often and easily than we do through writing or even through an expression like a glare or a smile. And yet much of the time, in conversation as in life, things are not wh [...]






