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Writing Prompts and Story for September 29
Williamsburg Creative Writing Group Prompts for the week of September 29th, 2011 Prompt In honor of the fall season, create a short story about fall. Practice writing in first person. Pick a topic or create your own. Fall leaves, collecting them, admiring...
Posted: 9/28/2011 10:17 AM in Off the Shelf @ CCPL
Meet Your New Favorite Author!
The library staff wants to help you find new authors to enjoy! To help, we’ve created an extensive list of readalikes for the most popular authors among our adult, teen, and child patrons. What’s a readalike, you ask? A readalike is one author that is...
Posted: 9/23/2011 8:36 AM in Off the Shelf @ CCPL
Library Now Offers eBooks for Kindle!
Clermont County Public Library cardholders can now check out and download eBooks to their Amazon Kindle or free Kindle reading app anytime, anywhere! Visit the library homepage, select Downloads located under Quick Links on the left-hand side and then...
Posted: 9/22/2011 1:22 PM in Off the Shelf @ CCPL
Goodbye Summer
The fireworks are over, the kids are back to school, the first leaves are in the grass, and the thermostat read in the 40s this morning. It’s time to say goodbye to summer. Looking back on my summer reading, I see that I was all over the place in my genres....
Posted: 9/20/2011 8:33 AM in Off the Shelf @ CCPL
Got Poetry?
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning knew a thing or two about poetry when she wrote Sonnet 43. Most of us, myself included, find the thought of writing and understanding poetry, rather daunting! If you want to know...
Posted: 9/16/2011 8:42 AM in Off the Shelf @ CCPL
Men don’t read
I really, truly think it’s a shame that, as “Rogue Columnist” Jon Talton points out, fewer men are reading books these days. Honest! I do! However, I strongly disagree with many of the points Talton makes in his piece. I tried to make some counter-arguements...
Posted: 9/15/2011 5:43 PM in Stacked
Writing Prompts for September 22
Williamsburg Creative Writing Group Prompts for the week of September 22, 2011 Prompt: I have been asked to create prompts that are literally out of this world, so here goes. Create a short story from the following: As the space craft is leaving, I am...
Posted: 9/15/2011 11:15 AM in Off the Shelf @ CCPL
Writing Prompts for September 15
Williamsburg Creative Writing Group - Prompts for the week of September 15th, 2011 Prompt: Create a short story using one of the following prompts. These may be about yourself and what you think, or someone else you know, or even someone who is a product...
Posted: 9/15/2011 11:12 AM in Off the Shelf @ CCPL
Weekend Reading: Red on Red
Edward Conlon was a detective with the New York City Police Department. That is such a terrific cred that it completely neutralizes his being a Harvard graduate. He’s got to be the most useful Harvard graduate in his class. Because he is an actual cop,...
Posted: 9/12/2011 12:28 PM in Stacked
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