Rack
It was raining, the clouds casting a pale, tobacco light over streets that had gone beyond meanness. I'd explored everyone of them, every goddamned alleyway and dive in the city. There was no Bleeding Heart Square, but there was a bleeding heart punk who should have known better. I don't like punks, and just then I didn't like myself very much. I'd been hitting the bottle hard. Sometimes I saw Sheri, sitting cross-legged in the corner of the room. Sometimes she talked to me and then the bottle ran out and I followed it, looking for answers. It was Halli Villegas who rescued me. She saw me in a bar one night and walked over to me.
'You want to ask me some questions?" she asked.
"Sure why not." I had nothing to lose and I still believed in angels. She might have been one.
"And who are you?"
"Halli Villegas," she said. ...more
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Fact or Fiction?
The King of Hearts is the only king without a moustache.
Fact or fiction? To find out...read more
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Quote of the Day
Compiled by OFW editor Henry Lara
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
Eliot, George
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Take Ten
What does your favorite drink say about you?
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away (okay it was Tweed) I tended bar. While standing behind that scarred slab of wood night after night, I learned a lot about the people slobbering and falling down around me. Much like your job, your car, and your clothes, your go-to drink says a lot about your personality. In terms of writers, it’s what you drink in the privacy of your writing cave that counts. The drinks you slam into your characters also give the reader certain impressions you might not want to make. Do you doubt me? You’re probably drunk. ...more
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The Craft of Writing
By OFW chief editor Carlos J Cortes And Renée Miller
The Rules of Writing-Parts of Speech-Adjective 3
For writers, what’s in an adjective?
We need adjectives to spruce up our sentences, but like everything in writing, the trick is to insert the right word in the right place.
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Flash Me
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Terms of the Trade
Compiled by OFW editor Luis Cano
Clean up
Incorporating an author's responses to the copyediting into the final hard copy or computer file.
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Hindsight
Compiled by OFW editor John Courtney
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Mockingbird
By OFW chief editor Carlos J Cortes
After weeks of gossip, unconfirmed hints, strong rebuttals, and lukewarm concessions to something cooking in the wings, Yahoo and Tumblr have finally announced their wedding. The two companies this morning announced that a definitive agreement had been reached and that Yahoo will indeed acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s CEO expects to close the transaction in the latter half of 2013....more
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Soapbox
By OFW member Shermaine Kerr
After another Robert Langdon indigestible delivery, one would be justified to ponder with perplexity why a wealthy writer should continue to flog a horse, when the wretched animal has obviously been dead for a long time.
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