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ARTICLES & TOOLS OF INTEREST

“Confident Writing” - Article by Jenna Glatzer

“Ten Tips to Maximize Your Writing Time”—Article by Nancy Dearborn

“Write and Speak for the Ear”- Article by Robert F. Abbott

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“Writers Notes” Annual Writing Awards Contest—Deadline July 31st, 2005

The 100 Word Writing Contest—Deadline December 13th, 2004

All Destiny’s science-fiction/fantasy, supernatural or horror tale Contest—Deadline March 31st, 2005.

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HD2 HEAD 2 (SHAPES)

like a bear's head

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pupils were hooded by lazy eyelids

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broad-carved face

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November’s Featured Vignette

“Do You Like Pie”

by Alexandra Fox

I am not sure if I like pie.

It is the type of annoying question that is asked endlessly, repetitively by a twelve-year-old boy with an irritating sense of humour.

What is a pie, anyway? A stew with structure, mousse in a noose, mustered custard? Besides, I'm on a diet, and pie is just an extra layer of sin (not that sin's necessarily a bad thing), a puff around the protein.

What I could really do with is a spoonful of inspiration, a cup of courage and a dash of diligence. Will I find these in a pie?

Take lemon meringue, woman's magazine pie, for example. It has a crunchy base - easy to make. Crush up ancient dunking biscuits from the bedside barrel, soak them in the greasiness of melted butter and leave them to firm and mould themselves into a new shape at the bottom of the tin. The filling is tart yet sweet, jellied. Without a structure to its sides it wobbles gently as you carry it. The topping is light, whipped airy whiteness, the white of wedding dresses, of clouds before the rain falls upon unnoticing lovers, of spume at an English seaside. It's gone in a couple of bites, no need to chew - and what's that at the end? That slight surprise, that lack of honest eggs and lemons, that bitter-sweet synthetic aftertaste - ah, yes, it was obviously made up from a packet of powder.

What about an apple pie then? It doesn't have to be American, or even à la mode. There's a better structure here, a more substantial longer novel, still feminine with its sprinkled sugar-crust pastry. It's a shame about the mush of bramleys at the bottom, stewed to an amorphous layer of cotton-wool, but the coxes make up for it, sliced crisp and fanned into a pattern, with a tartness, a bite, a splash of colour at the edges where the peel has been left on. An apple pie is easy to pack, perfect for a seaside picnic, light on the stomach, easy to digest, but not sustaining for long.

Quiche is for vegetarians, the bearded, bilious, bad-breathed - guides to numerology, astrology; handbooks of the boring and the arcane.

Game pie is redolent of guns and traps, strange morsels floating face-down in the gravy. It takes a good detective to identify each mouthful, searching out the poisonous mushroom, lining up the hare, the pheasant and the venison on the side of his plate and choosing which to dispose of first. It's sometimes topped with a layer of intellectual puffery, decorated with curlicues and whirligigs of pastry decoration, but the contents is generally fairly predictable, with the occasional switch to partridge or rabbit for a faux originality.

Custard pies are filled with aerosol cream. They deflate in minutes and simply aren't funny any more. Cow pies are Westerns, of course.

Pork pie is the heavyweight, the staid, the intellectual. It comes with a medal sealed around its neck, a first prizewinner at a show, for its weight, its appearance, its golden-brown importance. The judges didn't taste it, though. They didn't want to cut the crust, to burst the bubble, to admit that this pie tasted at bottom like every other. Its hot-water crust is architectural in the stability of its structure; once moulded, it will stand alone, unfilled. The pork is legendary in its use of every part, the brain, the eyes, the tail, the brawn - all but the squeak - and it is layered with chunks of politically correct pink veal. A tasty jelly has been poured around the whole, uniting theme and plot, filling every space, excluding the air. It's a heavy dish. You wouldn't want more than a little slice at a time.

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PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES

HR5 HAIR 5 (LONG)

hair falling uncurled down her back

SK9 SKIN 9 (COLOR - RED)

sun-seared skin

MT2 MOUTH 2 (SHAPES - FULL)

mouth had gentle fullness