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Ann Marie Gamble - Notes from the Wordsmith Trenches

English - Writing, Reading, Parenting
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Ann Marie Gamble · 3W ago

An Amended Plan

Steam coils from the bath Befogged glasses slide tubward The book is reshelved
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Ann Marie Gamble · 4W ago

Sucktaceous Suck-O-Rama of Suckulent Suckery

aka The Middle The wham zing, here’s our world, hooktastic beginning has been laid out, baby, whiz bang–magic fingers, do your work!–and now . . . well . . . Now we see that we don’t in fact know this character that well, we’re not really that clear on what would drive ...
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Ann Marie Gamble · 1M ago

April Already

So this is happening: I’m going the rebel route this time: rather than one 100-page project, I’ve had a few shorter things in the hopper for a while that will come in around 150 pages when finished, so I’m taking advantage of the party over at Script Frenzy to get back in the habit...
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Ann Marie Gamble · 1M ago

Lucky 7

The meme: The Lucky Sevens Game: Open the document for your current MS/WIP Go to page 77 Go to line 7 Copy the next 7 lines (sentences or paragraphs) and post them exactly as they are written. No changing or cheating! Tag 7 authors and let them know. Okay, Jenn Spiller–you . . . you [...]
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Ann Marie Gamble · 4M ago

The New Ann Plan

It’s been a good year for the Brain Trust, a group of writers I meet with in person. We chat, brainstorm, commiserate, and egg each other on. We pick apart story structure of movies we’ve seen instead of rating them; I can admit in this crowd that I read eleven True Blood books in twenty...
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Ann Marie Gamble · 5M ago

Crying Over the Cranberries

“There’s nothing like duck grease to oil a pan.” –Grandfather Chick Or maybe he said goose grease? . . . I used to work at the public library, and I was scheduled at the reference desk on Wednesday nights. On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, the desk was fully staffed but t...
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Ann Marie Gamble · 5M ago

Fresh Eyes

It’s getting cold around here. We had a few false alarms–”Feels like winter is here to stay!”–and a couple days later it was 70, but today there was a good, from-the-ground-up edge to it that had us hunkering into our coats as we waited for the bus. So we were staring a...
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Ann Marie Gamble · 5M ago

Finding the Perfect Gift

I’m blogging about the tricky people on my Christmas present list at the Pop Culture Divas.
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Ann Marie Gamble · 6M ago

Better Characterization through Personal Hygiene

Mission: end a bad habit. I’ve been shredding my nails and it’s time to stop. One thing and another, I decided to glue on fake nails–give me some time to get out of the habit of picking at them and give my fingers a chance to heal. It’s jarring catching a glimpse of this fore...
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Ann Marie Gamble · 6M ago

Mother’s Response

Time to sleep. The night is well started; she reads her daughter’s letter with worry, care, hope, bracing herself against the rushing in of shapeless fears. These, she admits, are grown colts. The pasture is no longer mine to guard, my watch as mare shadowing the leggy, tipsy foal is over. Thi...
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