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Taffeta Chime posted an article on Official Taffeta Chime Website - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
So ... I've  barely touched The Last since school started.  I've been pretty much not motivated at all to write it.  It happens sometimes, but I've never had a block this bad. What makes matters worse is that a new idea has spawned, and it won't leave me alone. I talked some to my mom (since she...
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Taffeta Chime posted an article on Official Taffeta Chime Website - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
So, my mom (since she's also my editor) and I met this morning to discuss the game plan for attacking The Last, and, yes, I am feeling much better! We pretty much agreed to shift the focus of the book.  Since I was feeling like I was really just relaying information to the reader and not being give...
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Taffeta Chime posted an article on Official Taffeta Chime Website - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
So, yeah, it's been forever.  Again, school's in full swing, and I've finished gen eds, so I'm moving on to lots of classes with lots of reading and writing.  In in a one-week poetry seminar with Beth Ann Fennelly (poet and professor at Old Miss) as my professor, and I gotta say that I'm having a ...
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Taffeta Chime posted an article on Official Taffeta Chime Website - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
As some of you may know, next week is Read Across America week, in honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday on Monday, March 2! Several schools around the country celebrate by spending time to read every day, inviting guests to read to students, and hosting other events focused on books (especially Dr. Seuss)....
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Taffeta Chime posted an article on Official Taffeta Chime Website - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Well, this ordeal was honestly not well-organized, and it turned out that we did not actually have a book sale/signing.  But I did get to talk to over 200 4th and 5th graders about writing Stoodie and whatnot, and it went over very well!  I sold a few copies and donated one to the CMS library, and...
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Taffeta Chime posted an article on Official Taffeta Chime Website - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
So, yeah, even though my poetry seminar was over about a month and a half ago, I have yet to put up the workshopped version of "D-Daddy."  It was well-received by the class, and it's actually been accepted into this semester's edition of Collage, MTSU's literary journal!  There's going to be an aw...
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Taffeta Chime posted an article on Official Taffeta Chime Website - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Felt like writing poetry last night.  Here goes: With a you-shaped gap in my heart and tears at the corners of my eyes, I ask Him who you are, how I'll know it's you. I realize God envelops my heart completely. The sun is a hug with a neck nuzzle, the wind a sweet nothing. He moves with me i...
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Taffeta Chime posted an article on Official Taffeta Chime Website - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
... but school's in session, and that means this Taffy's got obligations elsewhere.  However, unlike last year, I have still been writing fairly diligently.  I only have about a chapter and a half left of the rough draft of the manuscript of "The Last," and it will hopefully be done and ready for ...
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Taffeta Chime posted an article on Official Taffeta Chime Website - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
So I had a dream that my Modern American Poetry professor was in. When I told him about it, he laughed a lot and said I should document it in a story--or, better yet, a poem! He actually posted it on his blog: http://thelaverytory.blogspot.com/2009/11/school-dream.html.  So enjoy! :) School Dream ...
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Taffeta Chime posted an article on Official Taffeta Chime Website - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
For the first paper in my Intro. to Literary Studies class, our professor wanted us to pick any story from our textbook and write a thematic analysis of it.  I thumbed through the table of contents and saw an entry by Gabriel García Márquez, and it piqued my interest.  I've studies Márquez...
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