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You may not read every blog which is published here. I wonder why you read some blogs with interest while you did skip or neglect some. We're trying to encourage our members here to write more, but it's no fun if no one wants to read what we write. So, here's the question: What kind of blog are you interested in? Or, what kind of blog do you usually read with interest?

Topics

You may be so interested in some topics, say, English learning, travel, food, culture, politics, religion, etc. 

Bloggers or

Today I am coming up with my confession. It might be for you something shocking, something you have never had to face in your entire life or some of you might think I am a psycho or mad. Anyway, let me share what is on my mind and what has scared me to death several times. I am going to talk about... Sleeping Paralysis.

Is this expression new to you? Let me explain firstly what it stands for because not all people are familiar with it. I don't want to copy some lines from Wikipedia, so I will bet

This story was first written as a comment to Charos' photo; 'Pond hardly noticed by anyone'. I was fascinated with her photos' collection and decided to write a short story based on them. You may click on the links of the photos to check the beautiful photos. I've edited a bit from my first original story.

1. Toqi Zargaron

2. Kettle-like souvenir

3. Dagger

4. A small quaint cafe with willow tree

5. Khoja Gaukushon Ensemble

6. Pond hardly noticed by anyone

7. Safe haven

Her feet were killing her. She was

I'm so pleased to see that more and more members here have started to write and publish blogs. I really enjoyed reading most of them. But I'm afraid to say some of the blogs are not so readable, which means they are not so easy or enjoyable to read. 

Now that you've got such a wide vocabulary and have learned all of the grammar basics, you can write something wonderful for other members to read. Here're some tips for you:

Don't use the words which are hard to understand

Try to use the words which a

Last Sunday I took one day trip to the sea because I felt bored in the crowded noisy city and needed somewhere quiet to throw away my worries. I would not choose this place to visit in summer because it will be really crowded. But it is winter now and I love winter.

The place I visited is Halong bay where is not far from Hanoi city. It took me about 7 hours on the car and I had only 4 hours on a cruise ship sailing around the bay to enjoy the scenery. Well, with such schedule there were not many

Hello everybody! Would you like to enjoy a magic Christmas scenery during a marvellous travel? I really would like it! So, I gathered on a list a few nice towns to visit if you intend to travel during this enchanting season. Let's get started!

1 - Rovaniemi

Rovaniemi is the capital city of region called Lapland considered the official Santa's headquarter. It is located on the Artic Circle, eight hundred kilometers north of Helsinki, capital of Finland. Winter temperatures can reach incredible - 50

I'm that kinda guy who loves very much to read short stories . I visualize the characters coming in and love to make films out of the plot. The irony is that I haven't done any movie yet. The backup story sounds so boring that I don't want to share it here. 

To reveal the truth, I drove into EC through my passion to read short stories. I was just browsing on internet when I ran into a short story "The Chapel" by Josef Essberger. It haunts me so much to write and direct a movie by myself.

So, after

Writing Prompt ~ Holiday Capitalization

Hi Michelle,

I'm planning to spend the Christmas Day in Berlin because I've been away from my family for six years. They are desperately to I visit them as soon as possible! I know you intend to land this time in Germany too. I hope we can get together at least on New Year's Eve at the Brandeburg Gate. Me and my family always spend New Year's Day and Christmas Eve there. There's always a special firework show iluminating the sky in every New Year coming. It'

Years come years go, you never respond to my mails, my greetings, Christmas, New Years’, Eid Days or the Independent Days. I never missed the chance to have a contact with you with any medium or occasion available. I am once again sending you my Christmas wishes. I am sure it will reach you before New Year's Eve, because of the vacations. I will also be sending you New Year’s greetings through electronic mail. And if you open your mail regularly you will find my best wishes for Christmas and a c

Expector's Writing Challenge

My History teacher is Anne. She's a middle-aged woman, even though, a high-spirited person. She has  taught me several curiosities about world-famous figures in her thought-provoking classes. In the last class she played a full-length film about Napoleon Emperor's life. She explained to me that most of people are mistaken as to the real physical features of Napoleon. She told that he was an egocentric, small and fat French general. However he's remembered for his brav

Every month several members are featured as star members. Then, who will make a star member?

Some members are so active but have failed to be featured as star members, while those who are not so active were featured - some star members may have published just one blog. Here's the link to the "frequently asked questions" where you'll find the answer. 

According to our admin Tara, those members who have private pages can't be featured, even though their content was featured in the monthly newsletter

I have been missing you... Guys, this sentence thanks to the modern technology might be in the near future vanished out of our life. I realized it a couple of hours ago, was thinking and thinking and decided to dedicate this blog to this issue, sooo here I am with some interesting views. First of all just dont think I'm freaking out, ok? I will show you right here and right now that I mean it.

Don't you think that the world we live in is overtechnologized? It isn't a big deal to buy a new smart p

Well, we should do some extra works if we are parents or teachers of little kids. Specially, when we try to help them to learn spelling. I have found some  helpful tricks . So, want to share with you.

1. Teach them with rhyming words, e.g. book, cook, look. And, try to make more.

2. Tell them similar words, you may ask them to find out/ write down some similar words, e.g. far, fur, see, sea, to, two.

3. Putting a letter before a word, e.g. table- stable, high-thigh.nail-snail, ear-hear.

4. Put one/t

2015 will come nearly, I got to know the EC last month. After registered in the EC I am sure that I have fallen in love with this internet family, the family members are from all over the world, they are lovely, so polite to each other, compassionate, always humorous which deeply attracts me. I want to say I love you. Maybe at present I have not any oppotunity to travel abroad, but fortunately the EC gives me great chance to know about other countries because of my dear friends. Thanks to my gre

Dear Noaspls,

I hope you are doing well and as I know you, I bet you are in a good mood unlike me. Let me share what's new with us. You know a few weeks ago our family won the lottery and some people can't stand it. They evny us a lot because as for financial situation our life is now pretty good. I don't want to show off but we bought a new house, good car and many other luxurious things. First of all we were so happy but now we are just desperate. Well, to sum it up, I can't more agree with say

Hi Sara,

How are you doing?

While, I was in a taxi this morning on my way to work, and I overheard some girls talking many good things about you.

They said. You are a very good girl who behaves well whenever you are among them. You have good manner of approach. You always perform well in your exams. You like to mingle with good people who will make positive impacts in your life. You love to do good things during your leisure time. You have good relationships with all of your team mates. You perform

Thank you dear friends for all the words full of concern.

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For the past 3 days I was in communication with Dim through his blog "Pray for Philippines."  I like to grab this opportunity for keeping in touch with friends who are truly concerned about my status.  Let it be known that I truly don't feel alone especially when words of concern reached me through Dim's blog and through skype.  You are indeed a bunch of caring friends!

Nowadays EC bloggers has been sprouting like mushrooms. This is good news for EC. It means so many members are sharing their views, stories and just anything on earth. I love reading blogs in EC, well except maybe poems. But it peeves me when I read a very interesting blog and found out it's taken from another site(s) and written by someone else without proper citation by EC blogger(s). 

When I read a wonderful blog, I would feel amazed that such blogger could come up with fantastic view/writing.

Hello, everyone! 

Winter has come here and very soon we are going to celebrate the beloved holiday by all people known as New Year. I suppose that every nation has its own way of celebrating and I want to present you our New year style of celebrations. 

At first, I want to mention that we have a real new year with tons of snow and icicles here. If you look at the window, you'll see this: 

It depends on the family traditions but by the 31st of December all Christmas trees in the houses are ready to

Thanks for your intimation; you will not be seeing me anymore, just because you saw me admiring the beauty of another girl. You aren’t doing well, because what you saw on the culture page happened years ago even well before I met you. I am not feeling well right now. It isn’t good of you that you judge me on the basis of action done well before in the past. I will not be able to cope well without you, try to understand me. It wasn’t love I showed to her. She was a good friend. I admired her beca