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"I've done the same thing over the years. This helped me: the now-popular video of Ira Glass talking about how the gap between your good taste and your still-sorta-crappy work causes people to quit. I'm now actively not quitting fiction writing...." [
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"I recently took an editing test at a vanity press. I was given six pages of copy - two pages from three different stories - and a page of references. I had a week or so to work on it, they specified using Chicago Manual of Style, and that was about..." [
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"It was probably first played by children who had to avoid stepping in actual lava while also avoiding saber-toothed tigers and pterodactyls." [
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"Everyone knows "tire iron" is pronounced "tarrarn."" [
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"If you're looking for quantity, here's the "printables" tag at del.icio.us.
Here's another list: Useful Items You Never Knew You Could Print Out - The Ultimate Guide...." [
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"Strangers in Good Company is about a busload of old women stranded in the middle of nowhere in an abandoned farm house. It's very good, and sort of "old girl power"-y (Careful not to get "The Comfort of Strangers.")..." [
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"Print out a bunch of PostSecret images. Hand them out at random and have each student write the story that accompanies the image." [
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"Deer Isle, Maine. At its southern end is Stonington, a tiny lobstering town. I love sitting on the granite boulders and watching the boats and the tides.
(I live in Pittsburgh and have never heard of the places mentioned above. Have to go for a..." [
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"Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base is another book of that type, and I thought there was a real-life contest involved, but I don't see any evidence of that on its Wikipedia page...." [
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"Pomegranates are sexy:
If it's the thin-skinned type, roll it around in your hands, crushing the seeds inside with your thumbs. Don't break the skin. Keep going until it's swollen with juice. Then bite a small hole in the skin and hold it to your..." [
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