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Url:http://www.fivestarfriday.com
Author(s):Facebook User
Language:English
Tags:writing, social media, links
Description:Five Star Friday is a weekly collection of links to superior weblog entries from varying categories that have been submitted by the people, for the people. Anyone can submit entries, so if you know of an excellent example, send me the link for the next edition of Five Star Friday.
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Five Star Friday's Edition #83
It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.   — Gustave FlaubertThis week's roundup of excellent weblog ...more
2009-12-11
Five Star Friday's Edition #82
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, yo...more
2009-12-04
Five Star Friday's Edition #81
Writers are schizophrenic. On the one hand we tell ourselves, "This is a work of genius! I've created Art!" Then we try to peddle it, like a widget, to The New Yorker, Playboy, or SF Age. &nbs...more
2009-11-27
Five Star Friday's Edition #80
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.   — Dorothy ParkerThis week's rou...more
2009-11-20
Five Star Friday's Edition #79
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.   — ...more
2009-11-13
Five Star Friday's Edition #78
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those...more
2009-11-06
Five Star Friday's Edition #77
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is ...more
2009-10-30
Five Star Friday's Edition #76
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.   — Mordecai RichlerTha...more
2009-10-23
Five Star Friday's Edition #75
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by the means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that t...more
2009-10-16
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Amy Kehoe

Five Star Friday's Edition #74
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.   &...more
2009-10-09

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Facebook UserOct 2

Hey everyone! If you love fiction and you love suspense and drama, you should read this blog!

http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blog/in_my_dreams_it_was_simpler/

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