It’s hard to write about yourself and your accomplishments. It feels like bragging — and it probably is — but it is just as much a part of our lives as the disappointments. So here goes… Writing. I adore it, I need it. It’s cleansing, helps me to understand or figure things out. I...
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What follows is my entry for the contest currently held here at Extreme Writing Now.  What I find amazing is that I am a self admitted slayer of rules and on the edge player, yet I find solace in the strict structure of and the nine line poems, like this one, that I write....
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Extreme Writing Now is excited to announce the site’s the first of 2011. This contest will be a Poetry Slam and will be judged in the FaceBook Fans’ Choice format that we have used before. This is a member’s only event. Post your poetry, one entry per member, at the site using the Poetry...
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This was my entry for the Women On Writing Flash Fiction Contest for the Summer of 2010 Quarter. Although my entry didn’t make the honorable mention list,  it did beat out two thirds of the submissions for the contest. I asked for an editorial assessment when I submitted for the contest and was actually...
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The Extreme Writing Now Ghost Stories Contest is finished and we have a winner. But, announcing only one winner seems like a grisly crime, because each entry was superb, chilling, and extremely entertaining. Once again, I want to thank Jennifer Akers for talking on the unenviable task of judging the contest. Here is her...
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Chu Lai Republic of South Vietnam March 1967 Outer Perimeter…Guard Detail I was pulling my 2nd tour…out where “Charlie” owns the Patch…Where we are close enough to smell each other..Close enough to hear them chat ..with us..Not always..but often enough to get almost used to it…It was a 30 day detail..out for 30 days and...
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The old woman awakens, to the rasp of the hinges, ripping the shutters from her bedroom window. She rises supporting her frail body with blue veined hands holding fast to the bedpost, the night stand, the windowsill. In the pallor of midnight moon, the shutters lie quiet in the garden, in her crushed azalea...
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What follows is my entry for the October 2010 flash fiction writing contest here at Extreme Writing Now… Sil sat in the utilitarian, padded steel chair, forearms on the table, hands rubbing each other. The wrinkled, hospital issue robe and pajamas only accentuated his disheveled look. The bright fluorescent lighting that brought the sterile...
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Halloween is here and we at Extreme Writing Now are going ghost hunting. Suit up and throw the switch on to the containment unit; we have ectoplasmic creatures to snare. That’s right; our next contest begins right about…NOW! Deadlines Jennifer is also a copywriter  for other writers, individuals, and businesses.  Her experience includes writing...
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The is over and the votes have been counted. The contest saw six very fine entries, ranging from a farcical sci-satire to some Native American folk lore; with some real fright writes thrown in… The contest was looking for flash fiction submissions of 1000 words or less, and previously unpublished. The links were submitted...
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My entry for the Tara Masih Flash Fiction contest at Extreme Writing Now is also a tribute to one of my favorite authors, Douglas Adams. Will we ever really know if God exists… Bent over the charts, his cross hanging like a divining rod pointing at some random coordinate on the map, Father Reilly...
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We are going to hold a new contest and Tara Masih’s Where The Dog Star Never Glows is up for grabs. Once again, we will use the FaceBook fan page, but the length of the contest will be longer. For starters, you need to register as a member here at EWN. It’s free, it’s...
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Guess what kids? It’s contest time again here at Extreme Writing Now. Well, actually it is contest time over at one of the satellites of EWN, the Facebook Fan Page, but it starts here. Guess I better get moving with the details before I start confusing myself. We will be using the Memoir Writing...
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We held the grand re-opening of Extreme Writing Now yesterday, June 28, 2010, and although the site is still somewhat under construction, everyone had a blast. I thank each and every member. Without you guys, there would be only the empty and lonely halls of EWN. Halls that I really couldn’t fill. EWN is...
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