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Envy Describes Your Friendships
Last June, Psychology Today published an article about two types of envy. This link from their blog describes a not so pretty picture of two best friends dealing with envy. I rarely read magazines because I’m not interested in the … Continue reading
Posted in Pen Points
Tagged best friends, dialogue, Envy, friendship, motivate, mystery, Patricia Wood, Psychology Today, published, revision, The Easter Egg Murder, tips for writers, writer, writing
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Emotional Relations For Your Writing
Check out today’s blog by Jane Friedman. Her post today gives advice to memoirs writers about what turns their readers off. I’m not into writing memoirs (yet) but I seem to have a procrastinating habit of reading everything in front … Continue reading
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Tagged chart, emotions, Genogram, Jane Friedman, links, memoirs, writer, writing
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Wet Feathers, Fowl Weather and Three Lessons
Guess I’m over that (dark) moon phase and now hung up on birds and weather. Stick with me on this because I learned some truths about the world from a torrential downpour. A few nights ago the sky darkened and … Continue reading
Posted in Pen Points
Tagged birds, creative, Darwin, feather, humor, Lessons, perspective, point of view, protagonist, rain, Say's Phoebe, Spotted Towhee, weather, writer, writing
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Everything you need to know to catch the Curiosity rover landing
UPDATE: No, no, no–NASA has a touch-down clock that says the Curiosity will land at 1:31 SDT, on August 6th; 11:31 MDT on August 5th; and 10:31 PDT August 5th. And a big “Thank you” to my comet/asteroid chasing brother, … Continue reading
Posted in Scheme Stalker, Uncategorized
Tagged 2012, Annalee Newitz, August 5, curiosity, dreamer, ideas, imagination, io9, Mars, science, space travel, technology, writer, writing
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Defining Our Differences: Another Test For You
I pulled out my car keys and started out the door. My husband stopped me and smiled. He handed me a map because he knows me well. I usually have a good sense of where I’m going and how to … Continue reading
Posted in Pen Points, Scheme Stalker, Stress test
Tagged character development, comfort zone, Gregorc, intelligence, intuition, Learning Styles, relationship, writer
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