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member name: Eric D. Goodman
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February 26, 2007 12:41 PM EST --
Do you ever feel stranded, as though you’ve been marooned on an island? Sometimes that’s how it feels when you’re used to being online each and every day and then have to go without . . .
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February 27, 2007 11:07 AM EST --
The Oscars are well behind us, but people still seem to be focused on them. It's one thing for the winners to still be carrying their statues around with them, but it looks like the red carpet . . .
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March 25, 2007 11:28 PM EDT --
How many times have you heard it? "You should write a book about your experiences!" Or, “Your life would make a great story!” Or, maybe you feel strongly that your . . .
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March 22, 2007 11:37 PM EDT --
My wife knows I have a mistress.
She’s okay with that.
My mistress and I engage daily,
whispering sweet nothings,
tumbling together into comfort,
easing into ecstasy, . . .
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February 15, 2007 10:44 AM EST --
Today's a big day for the United States Mint and for dead presidents. A day after wall street set record highs, the U.S. Mint is making what they call "historic change" by releasing . . .
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March 17, 2007 04:47 PM EDT --
Happy St. Patrick's Day, Gather!
On St. Patrick's Day, whether Irish or not, many writers will be tempted to put aside their work to patron the Irish pubs and dip into green beer and Guinness. . . .
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March 21, 2007 12:45 PM EDT --
Road trips can be an exhilarating experience for writers. When alone, the open road provides a time to ponder story ideas, explore plot turns and character developments. Or, a time . . .
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March 28, 2007 01:57 PM EDT --
A subject that often comes up when I'm talking with other book lovers is the sad fact that, although there are more writers and more books being published these days, there are fewer readers who read . . .
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April 13, 2007 12:55 PM EDT --
Friday's here, and what better way to unwind after a long week than with a good beer?
This round's on me.
If you haven't already, stop by the link below and enjoy a tall . . .
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August 01, 2007 10:58 AM EDT --
You’re in the elevator, wondering how you’re ever going to turn one of those form rejection letters into an acceptance, when who walks in but the hottest power-agent in town! . . .
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August 27, 2007 11:06 AM EDT --
I’d like to thank you — valued readers, friends, colleagues, otherwise-connected people — for faithfully reading my posts here at Gather. Not just my weekly Lit Bit, but all . . .
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September 05, 2007 12:14 PM EDT --
Are you in the mood for a little romance? You couldn’t have picked a better time. Spring may not be in the air, but you wouldn’t know it judging by the number of romantic writings . . .
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September 12, 2007 03:39 PM EDT --
Earlier this year, I got a copy of the album Celtic Treasure, the latest from musician and Gather member Hayley Westenra. My first thought, when I saw the song title “Parsley, . . .
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November 07, 2007 09:43 AM EST --
I’m published in the Fall issue of JMWW . Give me a high five!
JMWW is a popular online literary journal based in Baltimore that publishes “the best fiction, . . .
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November 21, 2007 02:30 PM EST --
When I met Alice McDermott for the first time, it was at a craft lecture she was presenting at The Writers’ Center in Bethesda, Maryland. The topic of the craft lecture . . .
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March 06, 2007 10:10 AM EST --
For father's day last year, my daughter and son (with a little help from their mommy) presented me with Paul Simon's Surprise album inside a handsome manuscript box. The album includes Paul . . .
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March 07, 2007 01:14 PM EST --
Sue Monk Kidd is the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair. Coming from the small southern town of Sylvester, Georgia, there is no question that place is a preeminent . . .
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March 07, 2007 05:20 PM EST --
Today I’m announcing my intention to enter the Gather First Chapters Contest. I plan to submit Tracks, my novel in stories, this week. I’m in, and I’m in to win!
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January 26, 2007 03:03 PM EST --
Well, not literally. But legislation on the table in California would make spanking illegal in the state. So the government is at least slapping the hands of parents who spank their children. . . .
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February 20, 2007 10:30 AM EST --
Do you ever get depressed about literacy in decline? There's a steady trend, year after year, that fewer people read for pleasure -- especially when it comes to fiction and poetry.
But this Presidents' . . .
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