Category: headlock

Guest post by Anastasia Stratu: UNHAPPY ENDINGS: Will Amazon Control Our Reading?

Aug 12, 2014

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Ace Baker

in choose your weapon, headlock, power punch, touch gloves

Today, I have a guest post for you from a writer who creates technofantasy worlds and also blogs about social media and marketing. In other words, a right-brainer AND a left-brainer! Meet Anastasia Stratu: Unhappy Endings – Will Amazon Control Our Reading? by Anastasia Stratu This article by Chris Abouzeid caused quite a stir in my…
Poetry Week #005: Test Day!

Jul 18, 2013

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Ace Baker

in headlock, poetry

Ok, it’s test day! The first task, if you haven’t done that already, is to read yesterday’s post about connotation, symbolism, and allusion in Lorna Crozier’s “Crossing Willow Bridge.” Your job today is to look at Karen Connelly’s “From My Father’s Hand,” and see what you can find. Objects and items and symbols abound. What…
Sara Dailey week #003: Knockout idea–Use a theme!

Jun 26, 2013

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Ace Baker

in fiction, headlock, knockout idea, novels, short stories, writing technique

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9 Now you know that if this idea is stated in the Bible, a book that’s a few thousand years old, then it’s not exactly a new idea that writers struggle…