Are you trying to figure out a crazy street name to use in your story? I’ve compiled a list of these for you to refer to for ideas, and the names of some streets are truly wacky. Most of these streets are located in the United States, but there are some that are in England…
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Women Continue to Fight for Equality – Guest Post by Sarah Bates
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• •I have always admired strong women: Women who take a stand that defines them through life. Elizabeth caught my attention when I bought a slip of paper on which she wrote the words: “Men are what their mothers make them.” That comment, framed and hanging on the wall outside my writing room seemed to call…
Fiction Writing, Suffering for Beauty, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Suffering for Beauty – Scarification
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Researching Nanotechnology, Weapons, & the Muslim World – Guest Post by Mark J. Donovan
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• •Waterkill is a high-tech thriller that weaves a story around nanoscience and fanatical religious terrorism. This gripping story takes place on three continents. It’s a thrill of a ride that you won’t want to step off of once you open its cover and turn the first page. It took me only about four months of…
Book Reviews, Fiction Writing, New Words Learned, Suspense/Thrillers, Words
Waterkill – a Review
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• •From the beginning of the book, you know the death and destruction the terrorists are planning. The tension builds chapter by chapter until it finally explodes. Lives are at risk, and the action never slows down. Taking you to locations in the United States, Yemen, Germany, Iran, Austria, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Mexico, this fast-paced…
Fiction Writing, Guest Posts, Halloween Articles
Legend Behind the Jack-o’-Lantern – Guest Post by Stephen Helmes
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• •With Halloween right around the corner, everywhere we look we see the orange and black color scheme, decorations of skeletons, ghouls, witches, and ghosts. When you go into the city, you see store aisles and occasionally entire stores dedicated in celebration of the darkest holiday of the year. On this day of vampires, witches, and…
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How Public Schools in the U.S. Have Improved – Guest Post by Lloyd Lofthouse
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• •As amazing as this may sound, the democratically managed public schools in the United States have been slowly and steadily improving over the last 114 years [actually longer than that], and they continue to improve in spite of the false claims to the contrary. How much of an improvement am I talking about? In 1900,…