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Spring and Chaos - A Movie about Miyazawa Kenji

Miyazawa Kenji was a poet of the Showa Era in Japan.

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Last Updated ( Sunday, 11 July 2010 09:39 )
 
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What Wonders Can You Make?

What can you make today? What particle of your imagination can you share? What idea, mysterious and fresh can you dredge from the caverns of mind? What can you write, and disseminate among us? What will we think of it, and you?

It's the attraction and the fear that writing entails.

Sit. Write. Share.

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Last Updated ( Friday, 09 July 2010 08:57 )
 
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The Partnership

"I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel."

-- John le Carré

There is an implied bond between a writer and their reader. The writer offers up a story, whether a short anecdote or a series of novels, and the reader decides whether to partake.

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The Rain

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart." -- William Wordsworth

Our featured short story: Bear Hang by Brian Albright.

This gray-limned story of an unfortunate canoe trip is our March Writing Contest: Horror in the Rain winner.

About Writing: How does an author create a Timeless work of fiction?

Even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle could write a real stinker of a story. Read about it here.

April Writing Contest: Space!

Can you write about the wonder, the beauty, or the isolation of the stars?

 

-- William V. Burns

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Last Updated ( Sunday, 06 June 2010 02:28 )
 
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Welcome to Often Inspired!

"If the public likes you, you're good." -- Mickey Spillane

Our signature motto is "Be true to your reader and the rest will follow."

Have faith in your reader, but earn their trust first. Write something they would enjoy.

We hope you have a lot of fun here. Read. Critique. Create. Make friends.

-- William V. Burns

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The Zen of Zen

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Wrap yourself in love. It is the best gift you can offer.


The vestments of love enfold a generous soul.

 

The Zen of Zen is offered by:

     James Ian Burns
     William V. Burns

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Interview:  Vincent Zandri

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One of the mystery genre's new shining stars is Vincent Zandri—whose most recent novel is Moonlight Falls (R.J. Buckley).

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