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      Welcome to the "Write-Place"
                      
                             For people who read, write and think 
 
 Here you will find examples of my work - complete and in progress - and I hope that you will take some time to read and comment on what you find here.
 
 I also hope that you will make the site a favourite of yours and keep returning. This is a place to share stories of writing successes (and failures!), get new ideas, rehearse old ones and to simply discuss and communicate with like - minded people.
 
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Why Write ?

 

There must be an almost infinite number of quotes from the famous and the not so famous, that can be found about writing, storytelling, and the process itself of writing. We could spend many hours reading and digesting these, and indeed we should, but it can also take us away from the words and

sentences that are formed in our own minds and prevent us from ever putting down our own thoughts. I believe that to be able to transfer our own feelings, thinking and emotions to a form where others can connect with them, is not only a skill but a necessity.
 
 
And what better way to do this

than to read what others have written

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     ... and to discuss it.

 

 

 

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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anaïs Nin

 

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say. ~Mark Twain

 

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth

 

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison
 
 
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov
 
 
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become ~Buddha

 
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