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Short Poetry

#Poetry, #Writing /

All I Crave Heavy hungry nights of strange appetites Lurid hunts through jungles of reward. Faces painted with hope. Inked by savage tendencies, proposals of bizarre possibilities, vivid promises of hard realization.  Satisfaction somehow, somewhere, somewhen. When all I wanted, needed. Lusted, starved for Heart, Head, Loins… Soul All alongside me. Right here. Immediate in

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Check Out This University of Saskatchewan Gender Role Reversal Project

#Advertising, #Culture, #Video /

This culture jam is a school project that was created for a Women and Gender Studies class at the University of Saskatchewan by Sarah Zelinski, Kayla Hatzel and Dylan Lambi-Raine.It begs the question about the sense of our gender representations in advertising. If they are strange for men, they must be for women too, but

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What’s Gone Is Gone. Next Please

#AutoBiographical, #FlashNonFiction, #NonFiction, #Reflections, #Writing /

Security: When I was eight, Susan, a classmate, was kidnapped, raped, and murdered, and her severed fingers mailed home. I remember Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King getting shot. The Zodiac Killer haunted our region. The Vietnam War was raging. Horror was my childhood’s backdrop. My first friends: after moving to Sacramento in 1972, becoming

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My Worst Job

#AutoBiographical, #Brasil, #NonFiction /

How I Lost Some of My Life Once upon a time, I became a systems analyst for the now-defunct Banco Nacional. Dias, the R&D department manager, hired me, assigning me, the “resource”, to a gringo-hating division manager. They asked me to validate a network system to be installed in over 400 branches, a deal worth millions, the

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Adverb Hating Tonic

#Useful, #Writing /

So adverbs get a lot of hate, especially the -ly ones, and worse than any, the ones on dialogue tags. A lot of good modern writers, Stephen King, James Patterson, and Brandon Sanderson among them, have argued against wide use of adverbs. Here are some dissenting opinions (and better advice): Adverbs Are Not The Enemy

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James Patterson Writes a Ton of Novels – The Murder of Stephen King Is One Too Many

#JamesPatterson, #Useful, #Writing /

This is just crazy. James Patterson just cancelled a novel on the eve of its release. This would be a tragedy for most writers, but Patterson has some slack in his rope. It would have been his 14th book of the year (10 have been co-written):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Patterson_bibliographyThe book’s title?The Murder of Stephen KingHere’s the story:https://electricliterature.com/james-patterson-calls-off-the-murder-of-stephen-king-a9d8cf2f3f2a#.s0sdt0iktThe promo page now

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