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oupblog
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Holiday Book Bonanza ‘09: Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester explains why Georges Perec's Life A User's Manual is his favorite book.
6 hours ago OUPblog | Topics: A-Editor's..., A-Featured, Blogs, Prose
 
Soirette
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Purple Prose Rides Again
In spite of George Orwell's best efforts, in spite of the millions of students coached to write spare, lean prose by Strunk...
 
engtech
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Things I’ve learned from being a personal trainer: Equitable division of resources
I used to be pretty good at this. Writing, that is. The ability has atrophied a little these past few months. It’s not just...
2 days ago Beats Entropy | Topics: Prose
 
Alexander Crockett
Alexander Crockett posted a tweet
#Poetry Embodied http://bit.ly/4U2PVr #poem (a prose history of youth and adulthood)
 
SF Signal
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@YetiStomper Yes, it reads very fast. Not just the prose, but also wide margins and could-be-smaller text. :) Highly recommended though.
 
IndigoSage
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Prose bouncing around in ones head is pointless unless it makes it to the keyboard and onto the screen in front of me. Adios friends.
 
Graham English
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The Decade In Music: How Musicians Create
"How has technology changed the relationship between musicians and their fans? While major record labels still struggle to...
 
Arif Kabir
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@KarimBaz Same can be said about blogs run by NYTimes, etc; they are edited carefully and enjoy a large readership. Why? Cuz of its prose...
 
(S)wine
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Three Cups of Tea
first as stranger.second as guest.third as family.I follow this man on paper. This man, descendant of Norwegian boat people...
5 days ago (S)wine | Topics: Experimental, Fiction, Politics, Prose
 
Alexander Crockett
Alexander Crockett posted a blog entry
Poetry Embodied
And so, from the mystical and poetic expression of the mind to the concrete we live and live on, wit pleasure disguised as an...
6 days ago Broken Postcard | Topics: Art, Broken..., Categorized, Death
 
Alexander Crockett
Alexander Crockett posted a blog entry
Poetry Embodied
And so, from the mystical and poetic expression of the mind to the concrete we live and live on, wit pleasure disguised as an...
6 days ago Broken Postcard | Topics: Art, Broken..., Categorized, Death
 
Rock Ape
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@wadeis Sounds like a Hemmingway in the making Wade. Any room for creativity on both counts? Thinking some nice prose in comments etc.
 
engtech
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Great Unpunished Monsters of my Childhood: Dr. Bunson Honeydue
As children we are impervious to much of the world. Our sphere of influence is so small, and the information available so...
7 days ago Beats Entropy | Topics: Prose
 
Auteur Anjuelle
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Of Idiosyncracies, Formidable Personalities and Specifics
Describing an experience or person as bad or terrible will not suffice in fiction writing.Writing that the foster parents in a novel are mean or horrible does not flesh out the unique idiosyncrasies of their formidable personalities.Let us turn to...
 
Dave Webb
Dave Webb posted a tweet
@AmberCadabra RE: "four brains and a genetic modification", that, my dear, was way awesome Twitter prose.
 
dirty little kitty
dirty little kitty posted a blog entry
Sit. Stay. Go.
* Systematic reclamation of thePieces of me that you left for the dogs.Shuffle scuffle and relay race.Let's all chase our...
9 days ago Jilted Generation | Topics: prose, gypsy, sunshine, sky
 
Jill Terry
Jill Terry posted a blog entry
Back to the madness
The first day in weeks with absolutely no medication at all; hallelujah, what a milestone! The day also marked my first trip...
 
Eugene W
Eugene W posted a blog entry
Imagine Total Intelligence
Billions of galaxies, and ours only one.Each harboring untold numbers of planets, andstars, and other mystic celestial...
 
Eugene W
Eugene W posted a blog entry
The Dream
His sleep story came in vivid color on a darkwinter’s night.Ancient in years, he lay alonein his rickety bed clutching his...
10 days ago Poetry Mine | Topics: prose, dream, dreams, old man...
 
UdinoSaurus
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Whistler PRO-78 SE High-Performance Radar Detector with Blue Text Display
Product DescriptionHigh-Performance Radar Detector with Blue Text DisplayAmazon.com Product DescriptionAmazon.com Product...
10 days ago Auto Parts | Topics: Radar..., Amazon, Band..., Blue
 
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Markdown - Syntax
documentation by John Gruber - Daring Fireball
 
Jill Terry
Jill Terry posted a blog entry
Giving Thanks
I woke up this morning with my leg aching, which has become the norm. I reached down to rub it and noticed that some of the...
 
Molly_Mac
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'It was easier in July. I had no clue what I should do but out spilled the prose and I kinda liked it.' (:
 
isabella m
isabella m posted a tweet
@Manu_V haha, your prose sounds like mine :)
 
Rob Costlow
Rob Costlow posted a tweet
Must a story be written in prose, meter or rhyme, when so much narrative seeks to be unveiled from strings? #piano
 
Jill Terry
Jill Terry posted a blog entry
The upside of being down
I’ve never been much of a shopper; that’s not saying I don’t like to buy things, because I love that. I just hate to...
 
<em>mikimbizii</em>
mikimbizii posted a tweet
Wafting on the mellifluous prose of Toni Morrison's Sula.
 
isabella m
isabella m posted tweets
@ellejohara and you're right. stop thinking about the prose, stop thinking about editing, stop doing research. quantity! word waterfalls!
okay, back to writing awful prose. #nanowrimo
"tomas’ insistence that she get help had swept over her awareness like a broken sewer" <-- huh! can you match THAT level of awful prose?
 
Norbert S
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RT @NakedLiberty Campaign in Poetry, Govern in Prose|Naked Liberty http://bit.ly/6z0CuE
 
Auteur Anjuelle
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Showing Up…
Should the protagonist not appear, in court when summoned, the judge renders a default in favor of the opposing character, whether they be defendant or
 
Eugene W
Eugene W posted a blog entry
Ice Prodigy
Introduced as a 13 year old, she waved, beaming,as I thought she can’t be a day over 11. A slowand somber sonata signaled...
15 days ago Poetry Mine | Topics: prose, ice prodigy, ice skating, skating
 
Eugene W
Eugene W posted a blog entry
Fairly Fun and Laughter
Whirling, spinning survivors, I couldn’t control mylaughter as I looked at Ann’s ashen face, her hair awindblown forest,...
 
oupblog
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The Origins of Tintin
An excerpt from Herge: The Man Who Created Tintin.
15 days ago OUPblog | Topics: A-Featured, Art, Literature, Media
 
Jill Terry
Jill Terry posted a blog entry
What was I thinking?
It was the day I had anticipated, even before the surgery; the day I would come out of my cast and take my life back. Having...
 
Richard
Richard posted a tweet
Finished reading Kerouac's Maggie Cassidy. Some great prose.
 
oupblog
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National Book Award Contest: Winners!
Who won our NBA contest?
18 days ago OUPblog | Topics: A-Featured, Current..., Leisure, Literature
 
Eugene W
Eugene W posted a blog entry
The Top
Bracing against freezing winds,I slipped ice-encrusted goggles tomy forehead and peered, thunderstruck,at thousands of...
18 days ago Poetry Mine | Topics: prose, mountain..., Mt Hood
 
engtech
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The war on April: Chapter 1;Part 2
(See PART 1 for beginning)Tom preferred to watch from on high. He could see the whole of her and imagine theirs was problem of...
19 days ago Beats Entropy | Topics: Prose
 
engtech
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Lessons of a sort
I often whiff on the obvious lesson of a given situation. There is something in my wiring that seeks motion before efficacy;...
19 days ago Beats Entropy | Topics: Prose
 
NightVoxx
NightVoxx posted a blog entry
D R A K E
DRAKEThe advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable" ~ Sir...
 
b0ll0cks
b0ll0cks posted a blog entry
A Thanksgiving Prayer - William S. Burroughs - Video
I thought I would do something a little different for this weeks video. I was looking for something to watch over at Google...
 
Kenneth
Kenneth posted a blog entry
Over a Cup of JAVA
Life has never been so soothing when I got my cup of you, JAVA. Soothing. Relaxing. Enticing. Rich. Bittersweet.Oh, JAVA. How...
20 days ago A Stellar Life | Topics: prose, share, life, computer
 
Eugene W
Eugene W posted a blog entry
Wrong About the Wrights
Just another day at Al’s saloon, Kitty Hawk’s socialhotspot, and, as usual, Al was in control of theconversation....
21 days ago Poetry Mine | Topics: prose
 
Patrick
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BREAKING NEWS: Default Notice Against ASD Entered
UPDATED 12:29 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) A default notice to real estate and more than $65.8 million seized from the bank accounts of...
 
dirty little kitty
dirty little kitty posted a blog entry
Vicious Cycle
Sticky sublimation twisted trust twists security southbound. Take a dive to stay alive and associate with isolation. Run rabbit...
22 days ago Jilted Generation | Topics: prose, persecution, rabbit, run
 
rcm_08
rcm_08 posted a blog entry
The Song of My Soul
My heart a music box in which you hold the key and as you wind my love up the music plays to please. My heart a music box in...
 
David Nicoll
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Wow! One of the best bits of caustic prose I have seen in a long while http://digg.com/d119m0v
 
Auteur Anjuelle
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Preparing for the Journey
“At heart, despite its infinite variety, the hero’s story is always a journey.”–Christopher Vogler, “The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers”It helps to have a map, itinerary, or even hotel reservations when setting out on a...
 
Qna A
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A Christmas Carol Free Movie Full Online DiVx
A Christmas Carol (originally, A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas) is a novella by English author...