A.C.E. Writers

Occasionally, I find a blog with a writer so focused on content and niche that the blog is “of a mind” and I’m drawn back to that mind. Time and again, I’m drawn to a blog written by a young woman who has grown up before my very eyes. Her sense of wonder never ceases [...]

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Listening to Ty Harmon and Erik Stone chatter about Mike Huckabee’s column this morning made me wonder if either of them realize how much personality they bring to the “Anything Goes” morning show on KLMR Radio in Lamar, Colorado? Erik Stone’s professional reporter/journalist personality comes across loud and strong on the show, countered by Ty’s [...]

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Do your words get all bundled up in the paper and you can’t get poop out of them? STOP. Writer Constipation can be terminal! Midnight calls from writers often tie me up in a ball of frustration because they’re whining and complaining about the dinking words that won’t come to them, when in reality they [...]

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In the mornings, I often hear from another writer in the ACE Writers 101 group. This group operates on a random and casual basis. We have regular meetings, but this one is to be a special meeting. Celebrating accomplishment and reviewing/critiquing the recent Writer Conference. Oris wrote this interesting invitation to tonight’s meeting: And it’s [...]

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“We writers might have a chance at survival among the disruptive influences of reality. Our world is a thinking world where the mind generates our sources. The rest of the world relies on fact and history.”  ~ Jan Verhoeff

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“The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.” — Critic Cyril Connolly

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