Tag: gretchen lee bourquin
member name: Gretchen Lee Bourquin
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December 06, 2008 09:40 AM EST --
This week I have been working hard, both at the day job and trying write potentially profiting things. I keep trying to establish myself as a “real writer” and honestly, sometimes I feel a bit like Pinocchio. . . .
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December 07, 2008 11:45 AM EST --
on eHow. You need to get over 2000 points to reach that status. You get 100 points per article, with an extra 10 points if you include a picture. I didn't have pictures for all my articles, so I ended . . .
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March 01, 2008 01:19 PM EST --
In February I started writing again for the first time in a while. In the middle of the month I made a promise to myself to try and write something nearly every day. I've done pretty good. Below are . . .
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May 02, 2009 12:26 PM EDT --
Early last week as I was working on my new book, Almighty Whispers in Our Souls , the prequel to No Sensible People , I started to get one of those emotional kicks in the stomach from a character I . . .
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December 27, 2008 07:48 AM EST --
Today marks my son's 18th Birthday. Today, he is officially an adult. It's never been my own birthdays that made me feel older, it's been my kids.
My son skipped second grade, so he graduated . . .
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January 10, 2009 11:36 AM EST --
The thing about writing, or the creative process really, is you can't always create what you want in one sitting, and chances are you don't want to. In the new year I've decided that I want . . .
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January 24, 2009 07:28 AM EST --
Since I started my weekly blog several months ago it has been my intention to try to keep things positive as much as possible. I make life observations, relate them to my quest to balance the day job, . . .
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November 10, 2008 10:42 PM EST --
I recently ordered the updated version of my book, No Sensible People with the new cover in Lulu's new "publisher's grade" paper -- which is a little cheaper. Lulu won't do the ISBN . . .
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November 22, 2008 10:11 AM EST --
Yesterday, the daytime temperature dipped below 10 degrees for the first time this season in my area, and yesterday I dug my winter coat out of the closet for the first time. I was fighting it. I wanted . . .
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October 26, 2008 09:42 AM EDT --
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -- Thomas Edison
Expectation is a driving component in just about everything we do, even when we make a conscious . . .
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January 03, 2009 09:48 AM EST --
There's something about early January. The good parts of the holiday spirit is lingering a little, people are making small promises to themsleves- Resolutions. There's bits of new self-confidence . . .
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May 01, 2009 07:04 AM EDT --
I'm kicking myself for waiting so long to submit press releases, but I finally wrote two of them last night and submitted them. Hopefully they will both be accepted and will actually help sales. It's . . .
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December 20, 2008 02:04 PM EST --
Have you ever watched a baby wriggling on a blanket on the floor? Maybe there is a toy a few feet away. Maybe it is just the end of the blanket. But whatever it is, they do not see the limitations. Few . . .
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May 01, 2009 07:28 AM EDT --
When I was writing my novel, No Sensible People I looked to read fiction that would draw me closer to my own story. I picked Faith Sullivan's The Cape Ann and The Empress of One , Ellen Foster . . .
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April 25, 2009 10:34 AM EDT --
It turned out that last week, not long after I posted my blog about heading to my college Alma Mater, that the trip was canceled due to a medical emergency in my friend’s family. Since I don’t have . . .
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June 27, 2008 08:46 AM EDT --
Nearly a year ago I tested the waters with Lulu.com and put together a collection of poetry called The Long and Short of It and published on Lulu, where it's available in print for about $7 and . . .
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July 25, 2008 12:17 AM EDT --
The following is a fictitious interview conducted by a fictious journalist Trisha DuTell. Trisha aims to interview as many of the characters in No Sensible People as she can get to talk. Maybe I . . .
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September 13, 2008 12:14 PM EDT --
Last Thursday marked seven years since September 11, 2001 – a date that nearly everyone who is old enough or capable of remembering back seven years can recall where they were during the attack. I was . . .
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October 18, 2008 04:14 PM EDT --
I am the mother of two teens educated in Minnesota Public Schools, beginning with my son’s Headstart class when he was three and continuing into public high school and the local community college. I have . . .
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November 01, 2008 11:22 PM EDT --
Back in August, I took a class about getting back into the writing habit, and during that time I self published my completed novel, No Sensible People , wrote promotional articles and character sketches, . . .
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