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by Steve Morgan - 2008-08-25
"When the hell's Old Mac bringing those cows up from the bottom paddock?" complained Steve. "What's the use getting up at four in the morning if he's going to dawdle with the bloody cows?" Steve had ...
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by Genevieve Fosa - 2008-07-28
I have often been told that I should give seminars, as this would be an excellent way to drum up clients in my work as a ghost writer. And one of the seminar topics that everyone wants to hear about,...
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by Steve Morgan - 2008-07-27
To help with the running of the agricultural boarding school every boy was allocated a job to do before breakfast. Most seniors were rostered on to milking and shearing throughout the year while mino...
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by Earma Brown - 2008-07-24
Everyday someone hops a train to start writing a book. Unfortunately as one person gets on the train to write a book there are several people who decide that it's hopeless, they'll never complete the...
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by Steve Morgan - 2008-07-22
Deighton turned and let fly with a powerful shot through the trees. "Bremner had a shanghai, and his locker is next to yours. Work it out for yourself!" "Of course!" said Steve. "That's it! He did it...
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by Sophia - 2008-07-21
I knew this would change everything but as I stood there transfixed, I felt helpless as I read that shocking article in the newspaper. I felt and big solid ball like thing rolling, choking between ...
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by Steve Morgan - 2008-07-20
Standing outside the Head's office was the old team of lawyers. Treadray the only one seemingly unconcerned. He's a bloody masochist seethed Steve. He's enjoying this whole thing. Noble looked like...
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by Steve Morgan - 2008-07-20
"I heard that shanghais have been seen around the school again," Barnett said to the Head during breakfast. "Should we do a raid do you think? Might bring a few into line," he suggested, "It is the...
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by Philip Spires - 2008-07-15
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote was published in 1966, and is based on events that happened almost fifty years ago. The events were real. This is not a work of fiction. The Clutters, an appropriately ...
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by Philip Yaffe - 2008-07-12
by Philip Yaffe "Don't write short texts. Write concise ones." If you are puzzled by this admonition, it is probably because you have been led to believe that "short" and "concise" are synonyms....
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by Steve Morgan - 2008-07-09
In the Lap of the Gods is an ongoing saga of what my life was like as a young boy who was brought out to New Zealand by a widowed mother.It recalls the experiences I had while attending three totally...
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by Melinda Copp - 2008-07-08
Creating images in a reader's mind is what writing is all about. But oftentimes, finding the right words to express the meaning we want our readers to gain can be tricky. Writers toil over their word...
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by Steve Morgan - 2008-07-07
Once they had gone the dining room erupted into a cacophony of catcalls and taunts, everyone delighting in the misfortune about to befall the terrible trio. All thankful it wasn't them on the receivi...
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by Steve Morgan - 2008-07-06
"Let's go after school," Noble said. "We'll meet behind the chapel and go from there." What the Three Lawyers had planned was to go cross-country and over to the waterfall. It was a favourite sanctua...
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by Steve Morgan - 2008-07-04
So started the terrible trio. Steve could not have fallen in with a worse pair of troublemakers if he'd tried. It was going to be a long trip up the mountain once again. Well known to the masters, Tr...
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by Philip Yaffe - 2008-06-28
by Philip Yaffe William Shakespeare was unquestionably one of the world's greatest poets and poetic playwrights. Arguably, his mastery of English far surpassed that of anyone else who ever put p...
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by Philip Yaffe - 2008-06-28
by Philip Yaffe "If you don't know what you are looking for, you are unlikely to find it, even if it's right in front of your nose." -- Anon We all write in hopes that our readers will unde...
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by Donald Mitchell - 2008-06-25
While it would take a much longer article to describe all of the things I tried that didn't work in writing a book, it's worth noting some of the many mistakes I made that others might see as opportu...
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by Gianni Truvianni - 2008-06-22
Recently the United States government has passed a law making it illegal for credit card companies or other such institutions in the United States to make payments over the internet to businesses tha...
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by Gianni Truvianni - 2008-06-22
My experience with Poland started back in 1987 when I arrived in Warsaw to visit a friend of mine whom I had first met in New York while we were both students at Hunter College. There was something a...
