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MRRL

MRRL

The public library serving Cole and Osage counties in Missouri.
Osage County Teen Art Exhibit - http://www.mrrl.org/blogs...
Reminder: The library is closed for Veteran's Day (the 11th) this month, as well as Thanksgiving (the 26th). We'll... http://www.facebook.com/permali...
Women’s All-Night Film Festival - http://www.mrrl.org/blogs...
Dress Rehearsal St. Mary's Dancing With the Stars - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Dress Rehearsal St. Mary's Dancing With the Stars
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Fiction at Noon Book Club – The Honk and Holler Opening Soon - http://www.mrrl.org/blogs...
RT @OptimalResume: Libraries MAJOR resource for job seekers video from Today Show featuring Cuyahoga PL (our client!!) http://www.optimalresume.com/blog...
RT @thebookstudio: Tell your book-loving friends on Facebook that they can win free books from us! Become our fan! http://www.facebook.com/video...
RT @ALALibrary “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation” Walter Cronkite
#whyread - use the whyread hashtag to tell us why you read - tell the world what makes you want to curl up with a good book!!
#Maltman the other book he suggests is Bird By Bird by Ann Lamot (sp?)
#Maltman - taking a moment to sketch a map or draw a character will help your writing.
#Maltman - lessons from exercise - concrete detail, use all 5 senses, look at the world through eyes of char, etc.
#Maltman several folks shared their characterizations - very well fleshed out characters from these folks!!
#Maltman describing the character we envisioned using different categories like tree, food, season, animal...
#Maltman exercise - people have paper & crayons to draw the person visualized in the exercize
#Maltman - more ideas - current events & names & history & personal interest & asking "what if"
suggestions for writers #Maltman - Stephen King's On Writing
where do writers get ideas from? #Maltman (life exp & dreams 2 answers from crowd)
pretty nice turnout for #Maltman's creative writing workshop!
Just in time for Halloween… - http://www.mrrl.org/blogs...
#Maltman read from the 1st ch. of his book - with comments about research & art & how research provides frame, art provides meat
#Maltman "stories from my life make their way into my stories"
#Maltman "know what you write" - research is vital (& librarians are helpful w/that)
Writing advice from #Maltman - "write what you know is a great lie of workshops"
in the author talk by Thomas Maltman - The Night Birds. Already he's entertaining & interesting!
@dulcez a hashtag is a tag with a pound sign (#) that makes it easy to follow a conversation or topic - useful for conferences
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