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Your participation is encouraged. The results will be used to tabulate statistics about bad interior decorating ideas, spat inducing potential of answers, and tomato spelling acumen of all online test takers, regardless of your answers, with or without your permission. The questions: Isn’t anyone going to give me a break? Am I going to have to separate you two? Who said? It has been said that writers are

Peanut Beranski has convinced me we should all back up to the Lousy Idea posting and indulge in a competition for who has the lousiest idea. I put mine up, so now it’s your turn.

Whether you loved your online course or think there’s room for improvement, we want to hear your story! How it works: Submit your 300 to 500 word story to ed2go.marketing@cengage.com, sharing what you liked most about your course or how you think the course could be improved. ed2go employees will read your submission and choose their favorite story, so make it informative, funny, inspiring, and/or sincere. The contest

Now that I found a lot of old stories and organized them, I thought I’d post one.  Since I get to indulge myself, why don’t you post something you wrote that you like?  Squeezing More Out of Life by Ann Linquist My head has ached for days, seven now I think. I try to do too much; I admit it. With my 50-hour work week, the constant running

I admit I started this blog just to goof around and enjoy seeing what came out of  my fingers.  The other day, however, I decided to print out some of my short stories, which I then realized were saved on my computer in all sorts of unlikely places.  Computers have begun to be like closets; we stash things in them without always thinking carefully about what we’re doing. 

Welcome friends and writers!  Now is the time to challenge yourself to write something that you want to share and get careful feedback on. For our Second Annual ALWAYCT Festival there will be two rules: ~Limit your piece to 1000 words or less. ~If you submit, you pledge to share careful feedback on all the other submissions from your fellow writers.  Your feedback should be more than, “I

When I used to do writing workshops, one of my favorite exercises was to ask people to look at the room around them and name ten things that they thought no one else would notice.  This made everyone look very hard and also eliminate the obvious things like the pattern of the carpet or the texture of the desktops. We’re not in a meeting room, so we’ll have

I’d just finished exercising after work, and the door bell rang.  I was sweaty, but I decided I really didn’t care who saw me in my Jane Fonda outfit.  I pulled open the front door.  A tall guy in a hoodie stood in the darkening dusk, his face in shadow. “I am death,” he said. “Yeah, and I’m the Queen of Sheba,” I replied, waiting for the punchline.

This isn’t fodder for a story.  It is an example of statements that make little sense taken together, but are somehow fun to read because they are so odd.  It is my contention that you can’t write without meaning sneaking its way in.  But we can try.  Let’s see how much non-sense we can each generate, and whether some sense demands to wander in. Mine: I have a

Paint smear Something stinks Yul Brynner Claw “Dropped my pick.”