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The lies Christian fundamentalism taught me
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Above all, love. Get Our Patheos Newsletter. Laquo; The (surprisingly! Profound theology of “Heaven Is For Real”. I lost my editor’s job–but marriage equality won. The lies Christian fundamentalism taught me. May 12, 2014. We recently published here a piece called Getting Over “Get Over It. 8221; in which Sylvie King Parris asked the question:. How does one get over discovering that everything they’d been taught about God and religion since childhood was a lie? Who has the authority to say this? Bad thin...
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Carpe Keyboard: Rory's Story Cubes
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Thoughts and encouragement for writers.Discussions and lessons from Middle Grade and Young Adult authors. Sunday, September 2, 2012. I was wandering through the toy aisles at Target the other day, waiting for my son to choose a birthday present for a friend. In the section with the smaller, travel-sized games and card decks, I did a double-take. Have you seen these? 9 cubes. 54 images. 10 million combinations. Infinite stories. Go on Stop reading this right now. You’ll thank me later. Karen S. Scott.
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Carpe Keyboard: September 2012
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Thoughts and encouragement for writers.Discussions and lessons from Middle Grade and Young Adult authors. Sunday, September 2, 2012. I was wandering through the toy aisles at Target the other day, waiting for my son to choose a birthday present for a friend. In the section with the smaller, travel-sized games and card decks, I did a double-take. Have you seen these? 9 cubes. 54 images. 10 million combinations. Infinite stories. Go on Stop reading this right now. You’ll thank me later. Karen S. Scott.
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Carpe Keyboard: January 2012
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Thoughts and encouragement for writers.Discussions and lessons from Middle Grade and Young Adult authors. Saturday, January 21, 2012. I’ve been reading about lots of journeys lately. Call them quests or pursuits or escapes if you will – but they all boil down to a beginning point and a period of travelling to get to the end, right? In Ronald Tobias’s book 20 Master Plots and How to Build Them. Tobias’s chapter on the Quest plot outlines three different acts of the story:. The Wizard of Oz. Treasure of th...
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Carpe Keyboard: March 2012
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Thoughts and encouragement for writers.Discussions and lessons from Middle Grade and Young Adult authors. Tuesday, March 13, 2012. Our Story.Our Point of View. I’m sure you’ve been in a hurry before, driving in heavy traffic, and perhaps been a bit too eager to merge onto the crowded highway. Did you think thoughts like, “Why won’t anyone let me in? Don’t they know I’m late for my meeting/operation/UN Summit? Same story, different POV. I’m not a gambler. I don’t think I would. I think I’d...It was frustr...
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What Communities Need Now | How Can We Help Our Neighborhoods Become Safe, Lovely, Thriving Places? | Page 2
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What Communities Need Now. How Can We Help Our Neighborhoods Become Safe, Lovely, Thriving Places? Newer posts →. 8230;keep an eye out…. March 7, 2014. My mother would say: “keep an eye out…” for something. I knew she would keep an eye out for me when I was coming home from school, or coming back from my first date. We “keep an eye out” with love and concern for one another, for those we cherish. What looks different than yesterday? Keep an eye out for me! March 7, 2014. February 24, 2014. Movement durin...
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Carpe Keyboard: October 2012
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Thoughts and encouragement for writers.Discussions and lessons from Middle Grade and Young Adult authors. Saturday, October 20, 2012. Coming to the end…and grinding to a halt. For weeks now, my MG manuscript has been on the verge of being a finished first draft. Weeks. Seriously. Instead of opening my book file. Yes… I’m sitting on the platform at Procrastination Station ignoring every train that whistles down the tunnel. But some sort of writer’s paralysis. Put the whole thing aside for a few weeks and ...
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Carpe Keyboard: August 2012
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Thoughts and encouragement for writers.Discussions and lessons from Middle Grade and Young Adult authors. Wednesday, August 22, 2012. The Cougar in My Head - (or the Gift of Metaphor). I attended a storytelling workshop. Today for business people. Fantastic experience, for a number of reasons, not the least of which was this discovery: Other people don’t think automatically in metaphor. OK… I can hear you thinking, “ Whatever. She thinks she’s tough you-know-what, doesn’t she? I read about a novel every ...
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Carpe Keyboard: Our Story...Our Point of View
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Thoughts and encouragement for writers.Discussions and lessons from Middle Grade and Young Adult authors. Tuesday, March 13, 2012. Our Story.Our Point of View. I’m sure you’ve been in a hurry before, driving in heavy traffic, and perhaps been a bit too eager to merge onto the crowded highway. Did you think thoughts like, “Why won’t anyone let me in? Don’t they know I’m late for my meeting/operation/UN Summit? Same story, different POV. I’m not a gambler. I don’t think I would. I think I’d...It was frustr...
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Carpe Keyboard: February 2012
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Thoughts and encouragement for writers.Discussions and lessons from Middle Grade and Young Adult authors. Sunday, February 19, 2012. Question for you, CK readers: How do you feel about flashbacks in fiction? Or used for the wrong reasons? If you use them in your own writing, why? What purpose do they ultimately serve to your plot? Here's a brief excerpt I've been playing with. narrated by Sydney, a teenager on the run with her boyfriend in one of my WIPs. Instead, he sat across the room, his eyes closed&...
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