Was William Shakespeare the original Nicholas Sparks? No. But the Bard of Avon was an expert at writing tragic teen romance. Romeo and Juliet is a story of young love, passion, and what happens when parents just don’t understand. The epic saga has captured our hearts for over 400 years. After the jump, we retell the lovers’ tale in the one modern language that can truly communicate our deepest emotions: animated gifs.
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Welcome to the Crass Writer’s Workshop. We have these from time to time to help come up with story ideas and to set up those of you would like to take a shot at writing on the site. If you have any questions about WordPress, writing tips, or topics, this is the place to ask.
My lovely and talented co-host this evening will be Lucky Duck. She has been an editor at Crass since our launch so she is a great source of advice.
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Welcome and Happy New Year Crass Writers!
Happy Almost New Years! This has been a pretty amazing year around here and we wanted to take a second look at some of the really cool stuff that has been posted by the community this year. We are an eclectic group and we have had good posts about almost any topic you can name. Here are some of the standouts. Continue reading
Time to get serious again, folks! While cleaning out my parent’s first floor after the hurricane I came across some stories I had written. Luckily, the ink on most of them were still visible. The following is one of those stories. I wrote it in the Fall of 2005, towards the end of my battle with an eating disorder. Although I no longer suffer, each day I continue to struggle with it.
With her left hand she grips the porcelain bowl. The right index finger enters her mouth and moves back to the farthest reaches of her throat. She tickles her tonsils and feels the bile rise; almost there. Remove the finger, let the floodgates open and expel dinner. A running shower prevents detection. The bowl a putrid mixture of acid, food and soda. The tomato sauce had been tastier on the way down. Nothing sticks around for long. Continue reading
In the old days (from about the early-mid-1800s until the past 2 or 3 years) book publishing usually worked like this: the author wrote a book, and sent the manuscript to a commercial publisher, Random House, Faber and Faber, Akashic, there are thousands of them world-wide. The publisher employs professional editors to read the manuscripts and select (‘acquire’ is the usual verb used) ones with commercial possibilities. The author is then assigned an editor to work with to prepare the manuscript for publication. Continue reading
Welcome to the Writer’s Workshop. We haven’t had one of these in a long time, so this may be new for some of you. Essentially, this is a chance for you to work with the editors and admins to come up with story ideas, improve your posts, and generally be a literary genius. Please feel free to use this forum as a way to develop new ideas or ask for help and feedback. We want all of you to become the best writers you can be, and we are here to help you do that. Let’s get started. Continue reading
I want to get serious for a few minutes. I have a friend, a pen pal, whom I’ve been writing to on and off for about seven years. We always get down to the difficult questions and try to come up with an answer that satisfies us both. Sometimes we do disagree, but decide that the answer cannot be an objective one, so we leave it there.
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Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down with our lovely Momof3wildkids and learning a little more about her. Here’s what she had to share. Continue reading
Analogies are hard. Hard like that one test I had to take high school about Le Petit Prince when everything was in French and I wasn’t really that good at French.
Inspired by this post of the 56 best/worst Analogies from High Schoolers, we’re going to have ourselves a little contest.