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Absolute Write Water Cooler On using photos from the internet  
04:55 25-Jul-08   [Replies: 8, Views: 82]    By: cornell
What's the deal with taking pics off the internet and using them to spice up a story on your blog? Say I was doing an article on Hilary Clinton; could I just google image her and use one of the ph...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler Celebrating success  
04:55 25-Jul-08   [Replies: 6, Views: 57]    By: a_morris
How do you celebrate small successes? Making deadlines, reaching goals that sort of thing. How do you celebrate large successes? I had one idea on how to celebrate my small ones but high levels of...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler POP vs. POA  
02:34 25-Jul-08   [Replies: 3, Views: 45]    By: WildScribe
I HATE writing for payment on publication. There is nothing scarier than working my butt off all month long and knowing that it will be 4-6 months before I see any income. EEK! My question is, h...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler Ugh!  
23:24 24-Jul-08   [Replies: 2, Views: 57]    By: ALG71
A double rejection day. The second one was a real heartbreaker. I use Duotrope and the avg. acceptance/rejection time was about 50 days/10 days when I submitted in June. I got to 42 days. ...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler When exactly was the theory of evolution proved?  
19:25 24-Jul-08   [Replies: 2, Views: 10]    By: t0neg0d
(Mods, please feel free to move this to the appropriate forum, I post it here because I am less likely to get trampled for asking it--being that it is me who is asking.) To preface, I am not inter...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler Forty Plus Magazine  
18:24 24-Jul-08   [Replies: 2, Views: 69]    By: Arisa81
Does anyone know if this magazine is still being published? I've e-mailed the address I had and checked the website and neither works. Doing a search I only found the info I had. ...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler An agent's response...not what I was expecting  
17:57 24-Jul-08   [Replies: 4, Views: 128]    By: Bluestone
I received a rejection email on my murder mystery today. I don't feel too dejected, because it's been a few weeks and I'd sort of forgotten there were still some queries out there, but I'm a bit p...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler Examiner.com?  
15:34 24-Jul-08   [Replies: 2, Views: 69]    By: momto7
Does anyone have experience with Examiner.com? I wondered if they were good to work for. I'm also having trouble finding any information about the pay rates. ...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler An Acceptance and the Best Rejection EVER!  
14:09 24-Jul-08   [Replies: 2, Views: 15]    By: alanna
So, I'm a happy person. My poem will be in the next issue of Inch! YAY!!!! Also, my picture book recieved the most awesome rejection... the agent said that she passed it around the office (i.e....
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Civ Fanatics oldest known surviving copy of the New Testament goes online (Codex Si..  
12:09 24-Jul-08   [Replies: 0, Views: 6]    By: Julian Delphiki
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/eu...ef=mpstoryview [http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/24/online.bible/?iref=mpstoryview]> Quote: The oldest known surviving copy...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler Sonora Symphony  
12:00 24-Jul-08   [Replies: 0, Views: 14]    By: lvcabbie
I've completed 53k words of a series of pieces about life in the Sonora Desert. I originally wanted them to be 2.5-3k long noon-fiction pieces but it's gotten out of hand. I need someone (or ...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler I JUST GOT SIGNED!  
11:54 24-Jul-08   [Replies: 24, Views: 150]    By: maggieuc
I'm so hyped! Michelle Andelman from Andrea Brown signed me yesterday! She's really nice, and not to mention one of the top YA agents out there! Excuse me while a do a little dance! My teen no...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler I want to learn how to write scripts/screenplays...  
11:47 24-Jul-08   [Replies: 4, Views: 37]    By: James81
Probably my best avenue of learning to do this would be to ask you all for suggestions on good books that teach the style and format of screenplays. I've never written anything (serious) befo...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler Don't smack me!  
09:52 24-Jul-08   [Replies: 1, Views: 39]    By: cooeedownunder
I have been going round in circles trying to locate the place..., and no, not three drinks today, but five. This thread seems to have changed in a year, or is it two..where is the thread where you...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler O.o  
09:24 24-Jul-08   [Replies: 7, Views: 119]    By: Bartholomew
I think this is a new record. I got someone else's rejection in the mail, today. The envelope was addressed to me, but letter was for someone else, and the title of the (I'm assuming novel?) isn'...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler The Scent of a Rhododendron  
05:50 24-Jul-08   [Replies: 4, Views: 37]    By: SriLankanWriter
Greetings! I just joined, and I'm very excited! Let me introduce myself first! My name is Lasantha, and I'm a writer originally from Sri Lanka. I studied in the U.S. and will start my MA/PhD...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler Laughs and Encouragement  
05:25 24-Jul-08   [Replies: 0, Views: 19]    By: CBumpkin
In a world that seems to have more than it's share of sadness, heartache, bad news and burdens, it's important to find encouragement and joy to nourish our weary souls. This video on YouTube [htt...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler Pickup truck in Spanish  
04:55 24-Jul-08   [Replies: 4, Views: 56]    By: Kathie Freeman
Which would be most widely understood, camioneta or furgoneta? Or something else? ...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler Puppies...  
04:55 24-Jul-08   [Replies: 31, Views: 175]    By: jennifer75
New pack member #2 is still in mamas tummy right now...I figure we'll be bringing her home in about 2 months or so??? How long does one need to wait before a pup can be removed from her mama? ...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler A little question about animal size and strength  
04:55 24-Jul-08   [Replies: 3, Views: 35]    By: efreysson
I don't know how reliable my source was, but in an online discussion about Spider-Man, someone apparently mentioned that "the proportional strength of a spider" would actually be less th...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler I need some military help!  
04:55 24-Jul-08   [Replies: 13, Views: 101]    By: red hawk
So, I write mostly Sci-fi war, I have a problem with figuring out military ranks. I know that Star trek uses Navy ranking system, others simply wing it. I also know there are dozens of positions t...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler Any Russian speakers? I need a curse!  
04:55 24-Jul-08   [Replies: 1, Views: 15]    By: JoNightshade
I need a good Russian curse - in English phonetics. All I can find when I google are curses in actual Russian letters, which mean relatively little to me. Of course it would also be nice to know ...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler Medieval method of inducing a fast miscarriage  
04:55 24-Jul-08   [Replies: 10, Views: 67]    By: Perle_Rare
I'd like to have one of my fantasy characters use a herbal "remedy" to induce a miscarriage. I'd like to stick as close to possible to what could or would have been done in a medieval pe...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler Before I Wake now available in paperback in the US!  
02:40 24-Jul-08   [Replies: 6, Views: 68]    By: willietheshakes
As of yesterday, Before I Wake is now available in paperback in the United States. What pleases me most about this edition (aside from how good it feels in the hand -- it's a good feeling book, k...
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Absolute Write Water Cooler Inciting Incident Question  
02:02 24-Jul-08   [Replies: 4, Views: 67]    By: Kristy101081
Ok, I'm probably going to get the mickey torn out of me for asking this question, but hey, I'm still learning, so I can ask...right? Here's the question: can the inciting incident be related to th...
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