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Valerie J Runyan
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Is this the box in which I share my work?

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3 years 5 months ago
walzel1960
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Hi Valerie.
Yes, this is a great place to share your work. I can’t wait to see it!
Elizabeth

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Valerie J Runyan
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Is this the box in which to share my work?

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3 years 5 months ago
walzel1960
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Hi Valerie,
Yes! This is the perfect place to share your work! We are anxious to read it and for you to share your comments with us as well. This is where our “conversation” will begin…
Elizabeth

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3 years 5 months ago
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I’ll join in! I’ve been working SLOWLY on this historical regency romance for some time now. Here’s the prologue. I’d love to know if it makes you want to read more! As his ancestral home disappeared behind flame and smoke, Lucas Quincy, heir to the Earl of Englstone, tossed bucket after bucket onto the house with no results. It was futile. The flames, engorged on a meal of old wood, tapestries, and curtains, had grown too powerful. He heard the voices of women begging him to move back. He felt the hands and arms of men pulling him back, away… Read more »
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Lauri Smith
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Wow. This is captivating. It draws the reader in without doing it obviously, which I think is a real gift. I’m a detail freak so all I would add is that there are a couple of minor typos. But the message flows freely and eloquently and the reader finds themselves in the middle of the story without realizing how they got there. Great job!

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3 years 5 months ago
Whitney Jones
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Thanks, Lauri! Yeah, I type fast and revise often, so I have lots of typos until I reach the very last stages of the project and begin to focus on proofing. It’s always great to have another eye to catch those errors!

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3 years 5 months ago
walzel1960
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Whitney! Well, first let me thank you for sharing this work with our readers. It is wonderful. Your opening paragraph has already hooked me…I mean…drama, suspense, and an Earl?…(need I say more?) well maybe not – but I am sure glad you have. The image of the flames engorging on the meal of wood, tapestries and curtains provides the reader with such a visual of the tragedy that this man is experiencing. I could almost feel the heat and smoke around me. I appreciate your use of metaphors that help readers identify with the characters too. For example, when you… Read more »
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3 years 5 months ago
Lauri Smith
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And…Again. Regroup, redirect, refocus, re-visualize. Reframe. This thing. It happens. That means the journey is headed this way. I frame the horizon and take my brush and paint the rest of the path beyond the reaches of my vision. This is how it is, this is what will be. But then, that thing. It happens. It totally obliterates my sadly lacking artistic expression. My frame is reduced to pitiful pieces. My painting is completely unrecognizable. So, what do I do? I regroup, redirect, refocus, and re-visualize. Reframe. Different direction, different frame, different paint color. And I paint the rest of… Read more »
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3 years 6 months ago
Whitney Jones
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Beautiful language, Lauri! May I ask what genre you’re writing for? Is this literary fiction? Essay? Prose form poetry? I’d love to know. Thanks!

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Lauri Smith
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Not sure… I think this one is essay. I do some prose too. I don’t plan on what genre, it just comes out that way, if that makes any sense.

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Thanks! To be honest, I just write and how it turns out is what it is. So I’m not sure of the correct answer. Not fiction. This is facets of my life. I would say this piece is probably prose form poetry. I do other writings that are more like essay. I’ve never had any formal training, just love and need to write.

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walzel1960
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I agree with you Whitney. Lauri’s language is very spiritual and lovely. Great question about the genre…and looking forward to her thoughts. Curious, though…what genre would you think this particular writing would belong?
Elizabeth

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3 years 5 months ago
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Lauri, Thank you so much for sharing your work with The Writer’s Dialog. They are eloquent and most beautiful. I appreciate that you have allowed our community to share in your journey, and look forward to reading more.

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3 years 6 months ago
Lauri Smith
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Thanks so much! Well, I do have a new writing to share. I live near Houston Texas where flood waters of Harvey were a long term unwelcome guest. I was fortunate enough not to personally experience any loss of property, but many I know and love are walking a journey that I can’t imagine. So to that end, last week I sat down and wrote what follows. I am guessing this would be in the genre of an essay. See what you think: Harvey and Beyond Images…So many images. So many people. So many men and women and children depicted… Read more »
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Lauri Smith
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Ah – I forget when I post something here there is no formatting. The title is Harvey and Beyond, and the first word of the writing is Images.

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3 years 5 months ago
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UNEXPECTED LOVE is a project that I am currently working on with the hopes of actually completing it’s novel within this following year. It begins with Paige Snow who is waiting for a blind date that has been set up by her best friend Jules. An uncomfortable situation, to say the least, Paige is very shy and introverted, especially since being jilted at the church on her wedding day. Here is an bit that I would like to share: You may read Part 1 in full here on this site by clicking Fiction. John was Paige’s ex-fiancé. He had been… Read more »
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Hi, Wazel1960! First, I tried to read part I but the page wasn’t working for me–told me there was an error of some sort. 🙁 So, I would know the answer to this question if I had been able to read it and kinda feel bad for having to ask it! But here goes… is this the very first scene of your novel? I love it as a first scene–all that drama and the nice inversion of the run-away bride trope! In historical romance we see missing grooms, but I feel like contemporary romance focuses more on the nervous or… Read more »
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Whitney, I am so glad to have your thoughts on Unexpected Love, Part 2. I am sorry you had an issue locating Part 1. I have fixed the issue, and if you are interested, I would love for you to visit it once again. It will clear some of the ambiguity you must have felt as you read part 2. And…you are correct in the assumption that Part 2 begins with a flashback. I look forward to sharing your thoughts in the future. Please feel free to share some of your work as well. We would all love to see… Read more »
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